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View article: Community resilience to the health and wellbeing impacts of environmental and climate change: a review
Community resilience to the health and wellbeing impacts of environmental and climate change: a review Open
Background
Several frameworks and assessment tools exist to understand and evaluate community resilience to climate change and disasters. Yet limited research explicitly measures community resilience to health risks of a changing envir…
View article: Conservative Opposition to Climate Policy May be Partially Threat‐Based: A Test and Critique of the Integrated Threat Model of Climate Attitudes
Conservative Opposition to Climate Policy May be Partially Threat‐Based: A Test and Critique of the Integrated Threat Model of Climate Attitudes Open
One explanation for the link between political conservatism and rejection of the science and solutions of climate change is based on perceived threats. Yet, until recently, this claim has not been studied by simultaneously considering the …
View article: “Real proof instead of over hyped up bullshit”: Exploring what would change people’s minds about climate change using OpenAI’s GPT
“Real proof instead of over hyped up bullshit”: Exploring what would change people’s minds about climate change using OpenAI’s GPT Open
What do Australians believe would change their current opinions about climate change? In this study, we used audience segmentation analysis through the Six Americas Short Survey to identify groups of climate opinion holders within a repres…
View article: Willingness to pay for blue-green space and koala habitat protection following a Covid-19 versus bushfire experimental prime
Willingness to pay for blue-green space and koala habitat protection following a Covid-19 versus bushfire experimental prime Open
Community-supported investment in blue-green space and fauna habitat protection is important, yet the drivers of willingness to pay (WTP) are poorly understood. Moreover, research on WTP for environmental services rarely considers the role…
View article: The various forms of anger about climate change in Australia and their relations with self-reported actions, intentions, and distress
The various forms of anger about climate change in Australia and their relations with self-reported actions, intentions, and distress Open
Action on societal issues is often precipitated by feelings of anger. This has been demonstrated reliably for responses to social inequality, but less for other issues. We build on nascent research documenting the links between climate ang…
View article: Perceived support for climate policy in Australia: The asymmetrical influence of voting behaviour
Perceived support for climate policy in Australia: The asymmetrical influence of voting behaviour Open
A comprehensive policy response from wealthy nations is a necessary step to limiting catastrophic climate change. Community attitudes toward policy, and polarisation along political lines, may threaten this response. Using two representati…
View article: “Real proof instead of over hyped up bullshit”: Exploring what would change people’s minds about climate change using OpenAI’s GPT
“Real proof instead of over hyped up bullshit”: Exploring what would change people’s minds about climate change using OpenAI’s GPT Open
What do Australians believe would change their current opinions about climate change? In this study, we used audience segmentation analysis through the Six Americas Short Survey to identify groups of climate opinion holders within a repres…
View article: “Real proof instead of over hyped up bullshit”: Exploring the content of what would change people’s minds about climate change using OpenAI’s GPT
“Real proof instead of over hyped up bullshit”: Exploring the content of what would change people’s minds about climate change using OpenAI’s GPT Open
What do Australians believe would change their current opinions about climate change? To date, research has explored how political cues can influence the stability of climate opinions. However, minimal research has focused on the content t…
View article: Consequences of group-based misperceptions of climate concern for efficacy and action
Consequences of group-based misperceptions of climate concern for efficacy and action Open
People tend to underestimate others’ environmental values, including when judging the values of minority-status groups. Using a large national sample (N = 5110), we test whether these misperceptions extend to concern about climate change i…
View article: Is conservative opposition to climate change threat‐based? Articulating an integrated threat model of climate change attitudes
Is conservative opposition to climate change threat‐based? Articulating an integrated threat model of climate change attitudes Open
Throughout the literature, there are assertions that those endorsing conservative ideologies reject the science and solutions of climate change due to perceived threat. That is, they fear that accepting climate change means accepting probl…
View article: The value of public science events: insights from three years of communicating climate change research
The value of public science events: insights from three years of communicating climate change research Open
Public science events are valued primarily as sites of individual learning. We explored the individual and collective value of university-based science events discussing climate change and motivations to attend. While events were most comm…
View article: Could a minimalist lifestyle reduce carbon emissions and improve wellbeing? A review of minimalism and other low consumption lifestyles
Could a minimalist lifestyle reduce carbon emissions and improve wellbeing? A review of minimalism and other low consumption lifestyles Open
Everyone must consume, but the wealthy consume more than most. Half of global household emissions come from the world's top 10% of income earners. In this review, we investigate the minimalist lifestyle to find out if minimalism could deli…
View article: Solastalgia mediates between bushfire impact and mental health outcomes: A study of Australia's 2019–2020 bushfire season
Solastalgia mediates between bushfire impact and mental health outcomes: A study of Australia's 2019–2020 bushfire season Open
In 2019–2020, Australia experienced an unprecedented bushfire season that caused widespread environmental destruction across the continent, and especially to its south-east corner. Over two studies, we examine mental health outcomes of ind…
View article: Support for climate-driven migration in Australia: Testing an ideology-based threat model
Support for climate-driven migration in Australia: Testing an ideology-based threat model Open
We examine Australians’ preferences for resettling people displaced by climate change from overseas (‘climate refugees’), from within Australia (‘internal climate refugees’), and people displaced by war. Across three studies (Study 1N = 46…
View article: Anticipating environmental losses: Effects on place attachment and intentions to move
Anticipating environmental losses: Effects on place attachment and intentions to move Open
Environmental change is often accompanied by non-tangible, non-economic losses, including loss of valued attributes, connection to place, and social cohesion through migration in the face of such changes. Over two studies we sought to test…
View article: Climate change, activism, and supporting the mental health of children and young people: Perspectives from Western Australia
Climate change, activism, and supporting the mental health of children and young people: Perspectives from Western Australia Open
The climate crisis has detrimental impacts on the mental health and wellbeing of children and young people. Psychological effects include feelings of fear, overwhelm, worry, distress, hopelessness and anger; PTSD; depression; anxiety; phob…
View article: Physical and Mental Health Effects of Bushfire and Smoke in the Australian Capital Territory 2019–20
Physical and Mental Health Effects of Bushfire and Smoke in the Australian Capital Territory 2019–20 Open
The 2019–20 bushfire season in south-eastern Australia was one of the most severe in recorded history. Bushfire smoke-related air pollution reached hazardous levels in major metropolitan areas, including the Australian Capital Territory (A…
View article: Social dominance orientation and attitudes towards climate-driven migration
Social dominance orientation and attitudes towards climate-driven migration Open
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View article: Host‐member misperceptions about what others expect of immigrants: The role of personal attitudes, voting behaviour, and right‐wing authoritarianism
Host‐member misperceptions about what others expect of immigrants: The role of personal attitudes, voting behaviour, and right‐wing authoritarianism Open
Concordant acculturation expectations and preferences between a host society and its immigrants are important for social cohesion. But perceptions of others' attitudes are often distorted, and may extend to intracultural misperceptions abo…
View article: ‘They’re discriminated against, but so are we’: White Australian‐born perceptions of ingroup and immigrant discrimination over time are not zero sum
‘They’re discriminated against, but so are we’: White Australian‐born perceptions of ingroup and immigrant discrimination over time are not zero sum Open
We examined whether zero‐sum thinking explains White Australian‐born people’s majority‐culture perceptions of discrimination towards their ingroup and an outgroup (immigrants), and the relationships among perceived discrimination and suppo…
View article: The role of relative deprivation in majority‐culture support for multiculturalism
The role of relative deprivation in majority‐culture support for multiculturalism Open
In this paper, we investigate majority‐culture attitudes to multicultural policy in Australia. Drawing on relative deprivation (RD) theory, we explore whether resistance to multicultural policies and initiatives is related to individual an…