Anthony Leiserowitz
Climate Change Risk Perception and Policy Preferences: The Role of Affect, Imagery, and Values
Decision Research
national representative survey us public found americans moderate climate change risk perceptions strongly support variety national international policies mitigate climate change strongly oppose several carbon tax proposals drawing theoretical distinction analytic experiential decisionmaking study found american risk perceptions policy support strongly influenced experiential factors including affect imagery values demonstrates public responses climate change influenced psychological sociocultural factors