Research Scientist and Director of Experimental Research at the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication | Co-Founder, XandY
Nov 18 • 9 tweets • 4 min read
Do persuasive messages convince more people, or do they convince people to a larger degree?
In our new working paper, we examine this question with 14 experiments, 94 messages tested, and 41,265 participants.
Paper:
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We describe this as a question of breadth (convince more people) versus depth (convince people to a larger degree).
When we usually compare messages, we compare their overall average effects. Averages miss whether the message effects are driven more by breadth or depth.
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Oct 21, 2021 • 16 tweets • 9 min read
Strategic communication has enormous value, but our knowledge on it is fragmented. How do we distill it all into a general overarching framework?
I spoke to @AbelGustafson about this question for the last two years. Here's what we've come up with... 1/x
First, we developed this framework for *strategic* communication, to be applied to purposeful, specific goals (e.g., increase vaccinations, convince people to take action on climate change, etc.).
This is familiar to our #scicomm#envcomm and many of our other colleagues.
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Oct 21, 2021 • 6 tweets • 4 min read
Our latest Climate Change in the American Mind politics report is now out!
Some highlights... 1/x
The biggest takeaway is that many policies currently being considered by Congress have strong support among a large majority of registered voters, including many Republicans.
Strongest support is for tax incentives to make existing buildings more energy efficient (86%)
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Jul 27, 2021 • 9 tweets • 5 min read
A while back, our research teams categorized Americans into six distinct groups: Global Warming’s Six Americas
The proportion identified as Alarmed has more than doubled in the past five years.
Are there subsegments WITHIN the Alarmed? Highlights from our new study… 1/x
We segmented the Alarmed based on their reported political and consumer behaviors, their willingness to perform a variety of activism behaviors, and discussion with close others.
We identified three subsegments: the Active, Willing, and Inactive
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Jun 3, 2021 • 6 tweets • 4 min read
Our latest Climate Change in the American Mind politics report is now out!
Highlights...1/x
A large majority of Democrats think GW should be a high or very high priority for the president and Congress. Much lower support among Republicans.
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Jan 15, 2021 • 10 tweets • 5 min read
Our latest Climate Change in the American Mind politics report is now out!
Some highlights... 1/x
A large majority of Democrats say GW should be a high or very high priority for the president and Congress. Far fewer (but a non-trivial %) Republicans say the same. 2/x
Apr 17, 2020 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
🚨New report: American Public Responses to COVID-19🚨
Quick THREAD on some highlights on our findings 1/x
By a HUGE margin, Americans prefer to stop the spread of the virus over stopping economic decline 2/x