The Impact of Climate Change Attitudes on Extreme Weather Risk Perception
Year: 2026
Type: other
Abstract: Extreme heat and other climate-related weather events pose escalating risks to public health, yet public concern and behavioral response remain politically polarized in ways that are not fully explained by objective risk exposure. A growing body of work suggests that how beliefs about weather and climate are elicited can shape both the beliefs reported and the downstream behaviors those beliefs predict. This exploratory study investigates whether the sequencing of extreme weather beliefs relative to climate change beliefs systematically alters (a) the strength of the relationship between political ideology and extreme weather beliefs, and (b) real charitable giving toward heat-preparedness versus climate-mitigation causes. However, because the rebudget task follows belief/intention elicitation in some conditions but not others, we expect the order manipulation to influence how participants revise their charitable allocations.
Source: Open Science Framework
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Climate action
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7212433511