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Psychologists Are Learning How to Convince Conservatives to Take Climate Change Seriously
NY Magazine ^ | 1 October 2014 | Jesse Singal

Posted on 10/01/2014 2:54:52 PM PDT by oblomov

Last week’s People's Climate March drew 400,000 people onto the streets of Manhattan and a great deal of international attention to a subject of dire urgency. But some were skeptical about the event’s overall significance. “The march slogan was, ‘to change everything, we need everyone,’ which is telling, because it won’t change everything, because it didn’t include everyone,” wrote David Roberts of Grist. “Specifically, it won’t change American politics because it didn’t include conservatives.” True enough.

If there weren’t such a stark divide between American conservatives and almost everyone else on the question of the existence and importance of climate change — a divide that can approach 40 points on some polling questions — the political situation would be very different. So if any progress on climate change is going to be made through the American political system — apart from executive orders by Democratic presidents — it is going to have to somehow involve convincing a lot of conservatives that yes, climate change is a threat to civilization.

How do you do that? The answer has more to do with psychology than politics.

The practice of tailoring a political message to a particular group is commonplace, of course. But the climate activist community has broadly failed to understand just how differently conservatives and liberals see the world on certain issues, and, as a result, just how radically different messages targeting conservatives should look.

Related Stories How to Win Your Next Political Argument Awareness Is Overrated “Although climate scientists update, appropriately, their models after ten years of evidence, climate-science communicators haven’t,” said Dan Kahan, a professor of law and psychology at Yale who studies how people respond to information challenging their beliefs. Luckily, social and political psychologists are on the case.

(Excerpt) Read more at nymag.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: climatechange; climateliars; globaloney; globalwarming; totalitarianism
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To: Chode

Pardon, who is that?


81 posted on 10/01/2014 4:57:48 PM PDT by upchuck (It's a shame nobama truly doesn't care about any of this. Our country, our future, he doesn't care.)
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To: oblomov

Psychology on this = Bull...

Tactic = create fear in the uninformed voter

Didn’t PT Barnum say that there was a Democrat born every minute???


82 posted on 10/01/2014 4:58:07 PM PDT by tired&retired
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To: gusopol3

Get a social psych textbook, used. Same psych that got people to recycle. Actually should be online. search for social psychology and recycling. Also hitler and coercion.


83 posted on 10/01/2014 5:00:38 PM PDT by huldah1776
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To: familyop
The extended solar minimum and magnetic field deviation are problems. As the magnetic field moves around more quickly, the molten outer core moves around more quickly under the crust. The magnetic field weakens and provides less protection from rays. Unusual weather patterns develop. Volcanism and seismicity also increase. The magnetic field, as it is, exists because of the outer core (mostly iron and nickel).

Maybe we can build a special laser-tunnelling segmented train thing and send it into the planet's core, where the crew can explode a series of nuclear devices to make the core spin slower!

84 posted on 10/01/2014 5:00:59 PM PDT by Alex Murphy ("the defacto Leader of the FR Calvinist Protestant Brigades")
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To: Alex Murphy

That’s a good idea. ;-)


85 posted on 10/01/2014 5:06:51 PM PDT by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of corruption smelled around the planet.)
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To: upchuck
Jennifer Lawrence... mesmerizing, no???
86 posted on 10/01/2014 5:08:08 PM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -vvv- NO Pity for the LAZY - 86-44)
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To: Paul R.

“They see how it works on lefties and think it will work on Conservatives. :-)”

we need to find a set of appropriate alternatives to the word THINK to refer to to what the lefties do....


87 posted on 10/01/2014 5:11:14 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill)
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To: familyop

Wow. what kind of weather and volcanoes can be expected when the poles switch?


88 posted on 10/01/2014 5:12:59 PM PDT by huldah1776
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To: huldah1776

My thought was a little simpler; tell the truth instead of lying. They freak out the leftists with pictures of the Statue of Liberty floating away. If they emphasized the likelihood of marginally arable land becoming productive, they might catch conservatives’ interest. Then they’d only have to show how bad that would be!


89 posted on 10/01/2014 5:15:07 PM PDT by gusopol3
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To: huldah1776

Probably what we’re already seeing but more of it.


90 posted on 10/01/2014 5:18:25 PM PDT by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of corruption smelled around the planet.)
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To: oblomov

They just can’t get their message out.


91 posted on 10/01/2014 5:23:08 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("The man who damns money obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it earned it." --Ayn Rand)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

Frontal lobotomy?

More like “bullet to the base of the skull”.


92 posted on 10/01/2014 6:24:07 PM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: gusopol3

LOL I usually go to the source link and read the posts or reply there too and my response was the same as yours.

Simple scientific fact. No agenda. No politics. Not gonna happen.

Of course, I refuse to sign up so it wouldn’t allow me to post. bah. love discus or whatever its called.


93 posted on 10/01/2014 6:30:50 PM PDT by huldah1776
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To: oblomov
How many psychologists does it take to change a lightbulb?

Only one. But the lightbulb really has to want to change.

HF

94 posted on 10/01/2014 7:21:03 PM PDT by holden
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To: Mark17

They are”communists” they now want to ruin the economy and freedom over a completely ambiguous concept of “ Climate change” simply because they lied about “global Warming” as the earth was cooling. Most thinking people totally reject these kooks. They have screwed up our electricity costs but this will be changed very soon. Actually liberalism has miserably failed on all fronts— from healthcare— ebola control, immigration, foreign policy, Al Qaeda (AKA islamic state, korasan, al nusra mulim brotherhood— all wahhabi Sunnis) . Liberalism is a complete failure on all fronts.


95 posted on 10/01/2014 7:44:23 PM PDT by iowacornman
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To: oblomov

96 posted on 10/01/2014 7:51:49 PM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: oblomov

If the geniuses are so smart, wouldn’t they be better to take their “case” to China?

More people, more pollution, thus more “global warming” er, climate change


97 posted on 10/01/2014 8:51:05 PM PDT by A_Former_Democrat (STOP flights and immigration from HOT Zones . . .NOW)
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To: grumpygresh
Just make “climate change denier” a DSM 4 diagnosis, and place “patient” in a re-education “institution”. Soviets did it all the time; no trial needed.

Political abuse of psychiatry in the Soviet Union

98 posted on 10/01/2014 9:51:15 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (The IRS: either criminally irresponsible in backup procedures or criminally responsible of coverup.)
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To: iowacornman
. Liberalism is a complete failure on all fronts.

Everything you said previously, is summed up in the last statement.

99 posted on 10/01/2014 10:31:52 PM PDT by Mark17 (So we tanned his hide when he died Clyde and that's it hanging on the shed. Altogether now)
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To: oblomov

“Psychologists Are Learning How to Convince Conservatives to Take Climate Change Seriously”

Conservatives WILL, WHEN that change takes place and becomes a “Truth”. So rather than try to ‘convince’ the same people with new lies, they ought to be head-shrinking those who concocted such an elaborate LIE.


100 posted on 10/01/2014 11:42:28 PM PDT by ourworldawry
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