https://jcom.sissa.it/archive/20/01/JCOM_2001_2021_A03
Effects of opinion statements on laypeople's acceptance of a climate engineering technology. Comparing the source credibility of researchers, politicians and a citizens' jury Article Authors: Geraldine Klaus, Lisa Oswald, Andreas Ernst and Christine Merk Abstract: To examine the influence of different actors' fictitious statements about research and deployment of stratospheric aerosol injection (SAI), we conducted an online survey in Germany. Participants assess researchers and a citizens' jury to be more credible than politicians. Credibility has a strong positive effect on SAI acceptance in both pro-SAI and contra-SAI conditions. Reading the statement against SAI-deployment led to significantly lower acceptance scores compared to reading the pro-statement. However, the difference between messages was unexpectedly small, indicating that the message content was not fully adopted while underlying traits and attitudes mainly shaped acceptance even despite, or because of, low levels of knowledge. Keywords: Environmental communication Public perception of science and technology DOI: https://doi.org/10.22323/2.20010203 Received: 8 August 2019 Accepted: 3 November 2020 Published: 25 January 2021 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "geoengineering" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/geoengineering/CAJ3C-05xu1Xyhk86iFisHmvCM%3D6s_JexNv%2BJBWrF5uWfokX6KQ%40mail.gmail.com.
