气候变化领域集成服务门户(CCPortal): Americans experience a false social reality by underestimating popular climate policy support by nearly half

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DOI	10.1038/s41467-022-32412-y
	Americans experience a false social reality by underestimating popular climate policy support by nearly half
	Sparkman, Gregg; Geiger, Nathan; Weber, Elke U.
发表日期	2022
EISSN	2041-1723
卷号	13 期号:1
英文摘要	Pluralistic ignorance-a shared misperception of how others think or behave-poses a challenge to collective action on problems like climate change. Using a representative sample of Americans (N = 6119), we examine whether Americans accurately perceive national concern about climate change and support for mitigating policies. We find a form of pluralistic ignorance that we describe as a false social reality: a near universal perception of public opinion that is the opposite of true public sentiment. Specifically, 80-90% of Americans underestimate the prevalence of support for major climate change mitigation policies and climate concern. While 66-80% Americans support these policies, Americans estimate the prevalence to only be between 37-43% on average. Thus, supporters of climate policies outnumber opponents two to one, while Americans falsely perceive nearly the opposite to be true. Further, Americans in every state and every assessed demographic underestimate support across all polices tested. Preliminary evidence suggests three sources of these misperceptions: (i) consistent with a false consensus effect, respondents who support these policies less (conservatives) underestimate support by a greater degree; controlling for one's own personal politics, (ii) exposure to more conservative local norms and (iii) consuming conservative news correspond to greater misperceptions. A new study finds that Americans underestimate how many are concerned about climate change as well as support for major climate policies by nearly half, with climate policy supporters significantly outnumbering non-supporters.
语种	英语
WOS研究方向	Multidisciplinary Sciences
WOS类目	Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED)
WOS记录号	WOS:000846798200020
来源期刊	NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/280372
作者单位	Boston College; Indiana University System; Indiana University Bloomington; Princeton University
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Sparkman, Gregg,Geiger, Nathan,Weber, Elke U.. Americans experience a false social reality by underestimating popular climate policy support by nearly half[J],2022,13(1).
APA	Sparkman, Gregg,Geiger, Nathan,&Weber, Elke U..(2022).Americans experience a false social reality by underestimating popular climate policy support by nearly half.NATURE COMMUNICATIONS,13(1).
MLA	Sparkman, Gregg,et al."Americans experience a false social reality by underestimating popular climate policy support by nearly half".NATURE COMMUNICATIONS 13.1(2022).