Daniel Chapman and Brian Lickel Publish New Article in Nature Climate Change

Graduate student Daniel Chapman and Professor Brian Lickel, Psychological and Brain Sciences, and Assistant Professor Ezra Markowitz, Environmental Conservation, have published a new article in Nature Climate Change entitled "Reassessing emotion in climate change communication." The researchers discuss how climate change communicators may attempt to encourage or impede public engagement in their readers by initiating emotional responses. However, current evidence suggests that emotions are not simple levers that can be pulled to produce a target response, they "may be more effectively considered part of an interpretive and self-regulatory feedback system allowing people to track, update, and modify their understanding of themselves and the world."

Chapman, Lickel, and Markowitz were also cited in a Vox article entitled “Does hope inspire more action on climate change than fear? We don’t know.“

Pictured from left to right: Daniel Chapman, Brian Lickel