Relatively little is known about how the public perceives

The gap

Evidence profile

Stated in the abstract section of the source papers, classified as general, drawn from work published between 2017 and 2023, spanning 5 journals. Those papers have been cited 103 times in total.

Supporting evidence — 5 representative gaps

• Textbooks of doubt, tested: the effect of a denialist framing on adolescents’ certainty about climate change (2021) · Environmental Education Research · cited 19× · doi

  To address this gap in the literature, this article reports on a survey-based experiment testing two framings of uncertainty about the causes and effects of climate change—one with a high level of uncertainty and one with a low level of uncertainty—on students’ knowledge, attitudes, and behaviours related to climate change.

  generalstated in abstractevidence 5/5
  Keywords: uncertainty climate change level address literature article reports survey based experiment testing framings causes effects
• Students’ conceptions of uncertainties in the context of climate change (2021) · International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education · cited 27× · doi

  Uncertainties due to limited knowledge about climate change and anthropogenic factors were less mentioned by the students, but they appeared to have much knowledge about the limits of climate modeling.

  generalstated in abstractevidence 4/5
  Keywords: knowledge climate uncertainties limited change anthropogenic factors less mentioned students appeared limits modeling
• The moral side of the climate crisis: the effect of moral conviction on learning about climate change (2021) · The Educational and Developmental Psychologist · cited 8× · doi

  However, how moral convictions influence learning about climate change – another science topic perceived as controversial – has not been studied in depth.

  generalstated in abstractevidence 4/5
  Keywords: moral convictions influence learning climate change science topic perceived controversial studied depth
• Public Perception of Uncertainties Within Climate Change Science (2017) · Risk Analysis · cited 47× · doi

  Relatively little is known about how the public perceives this scientific uncertainty and how this relates to their concern about climate change.

  generalstated in abstractevidence 3/5
  Keywords: relatively little known public perceives scientific uncertainty relates concern climate change
• Asynchronous student engagement in analysis of climate data achieves learning objectives related to climate change understanding, statistical competence, and climate anxiety (2023) · Journal of Geoscience Education · cited 2× · doi

  Climate science-dissenting students were so few in this study that a statistical comparison was not possible, but this intriguing finding warrants further investigation of the role of anxiety in science denial.

  generalstated in abstractevidence 2/5
  Keywords: science climate dissenting students statistical comparison possible intriguing finding warrants further investigation role anxiety denial

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