Environmental Literature as Persuasion: An Experimental Test of the Effects of Reading Climate Fiction

@article{SchneiderMayerson2020EnvironmentalLA,
  title={Environmental Literature as Persuasion: An Experimental Test of the Effects of Reading Climate Fiction},
  author={Matthew Schneider-Mayerson and Abel Gustafson and Anthony Leiserowitz and Matthew H. Goldberg and Seth A. Rosenthal and Matthew T. Ballew},
  journal={Environmental Communication-a Journal of Nature and Culture},
  year={2020}
}
Literary works of fiction about climate change are becoming more common and more popular among critics and readers. While much research has indicated the persuasive effectiveness of narrative story... 
View via Publisher
8 Citations
Background Citations
3

8 Citations

Citation Type

Citation Type

Green Stories for Digital Sustainable Development Education
Increasingly, Education for Sustainable Development is taking root in Teaching English as a Foreign Language classrooms as well as in literary studies. In this context, recent research in empirical…
Fictional Narratives as a Laboratory for the Social Cognition of Behavioral Change: My Ajussi
Fictional narratives cannot be considered as mere escapist entertainment, and have a significant social cognition potential. Their study is also important in understanding the mechanisms of…
Transforming the stories we tell about climate change: from ‘issue’ to ‘action’
By some counts, up to 98% of environmental news stories are negative in nature Implicit in this number is the conventional wisdom among many communicators that increasing people's understanding,…
Communicating Climate Change Risk to Children: A Thematic Analysis of Children’s Literature
Children are crucial to the future of climate change leadership, and even as youth, they have the ability to make a difference in achieving climate equity. Explorations of children’s climate change…
Stories of intentional action mobilise climate policy support and action intentions
TLDR
Results highlight that narrating intentional, rather than unintentional, pro-Environmental action can enhance readers’ climate policy support and intentions to perform pro-environmental action.
Research trends on climate communication in the post-truth era
ABSTRACT Objectives Climate change is a vital environmental issue that every citizen in the world needs to be concerned about. Individually and collectively, regionally and globally, citizens should…
Effectiveness of folk theatre in conveying environmental consciousness: a case study of Yakshagana
Abstract Yakshagana is a traditional theatre form of Karnataka, a southern state in India, having a known history of over 500 years. It is a powerful medium of folk communication that makes extensive…
Forest 404: Using a BBC drama series to explore the impact of nature’s changing soundscapes on human wellbeing and behavior

References

SHOWING 1-10 OF 54 REFERENCES
The Influence of Paratext on Narrative Persuasion: Fact, Fiction, or Fake?
The present research examined the role of personality factors and paratextual information about the reliability of a story on its persuasiveness. Study 1 (N = 135) was focused on recipients' explicit…
Changing Real‐World Beliefs With Controversial Movies: Processes and Mechanisms of Narrative Persuasion
Empirical research has found that exposure to specific fictional narratives exerts significant effects on attitudes and beliefs. However, there is little research about the persuasive impact of…
The Influence of Climate Fiction
Climate fiction—literature explicitly focused on climate change—has exploded over the last decade, and is often assumed to have a positive ecopolitical influence by enabling readers to imagine…
Examining Four Processes of Audience Involvement With Media Personae: Transportation, Parasocial Interaction, Identification, and Worship
The proliferation of visual media worldwide during the past 50 years has made mediated personalities, both real people and fictional characters, powerful agents of social change. Communication…
This Story Is Not for Everyone: Transportability and Narrative Persuasion
Across two studies, the authors examined the role of individual differences in transportability, the tendency to become transported into narratives, in predicting the degree of attitude change…
Communicating Climate Change: Are Stories Better than “Just the Facts”?
Postpositive policy scholarship has long asserted the importance of narratives—or stories—in shaping public policy through public opinion. In part, the Narrative Policy Framework (NPF) was developed…
Using narratives and storytelling to communicate science with nonexpert audiences
Although storytelling often has negative connotations within science, narrative formats of communication should not be disregarded when communicating science to nonexpert audiences. Narratives offer…
Toward a Theory of Entertainment Persuasion: Explaining the Persuasive Effects of Entertainment‐Education Messages
A growing body of research indicates that entertainment-education programming can be an effective way to deliver prosocial and health messages. Some have even speculated that entertainment-education…
Framing Climate Change: Exploring the Role of Emotion in Generating Advocacy Behavior
Substantial research examines the cognitive factors underlying proenviron-mental message effectiveness. In contrast, this study investigates the role of emotion, fear and hope specifically, in the…
Green Narratives
This study examined the relationships between narrative involvement, affect, risk perceptions, and environmental policy preferences. Experiment 1 involved a 3 (news, documentary, entertainment) × 2…
...
...