New Article on Personal Experience x Climate Change Attitudes

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Gellers, Joshua

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Feb 28, 2025, 5:23:14 AM2/28/25

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Colleagues-

I'm pleased to share my latest article in Journal of Environmental Psychology (co-authored with Alessandro Del Ponte, Enrijeta Shino, and Heather Barnes Truelove), which examines the role of personal experience with tropical disasters in Florida. In a survey of ~4000 voters, we find that experiencing damage from flooding/hurricanes increases concern about climate change and support for climate mitigation among Republicans. The study shows that political preferences can be overridden by first-hand experiences with events related to climate change. In other words, once you are personally affected by climate change, it's hard to deny the need to take it seriously.

We’ve been given free access to the article for 50 days at this link: https://authors.elsevier.com/c/1kfzIzzKDPycU

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Josh

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