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Kause, Astrid and Townsend, Tarlise and Gaissmaier, Wolfgang (2017) Dataset associated with Framing Climate Uncertainty: Frame Choices Reveal and Influence Climate Change Beliefs. University of Leeds. [Dataset] https://doi.org/10.5518/229

Dataset description

Dataset description. We investigated in two pre-registered studies (1) how ‘communicators’ verbally frame a confidence interval regarding projected change in winter precipitation due to climate change (N = 512, speakers2.RData). We assessed this by asking study participants to choose one of two different verbal frames for communicating the above projection (a ‘concerned’ compared to an ‘unconcerned’ frame). Using a five-item scale, we measured their perceived severity of consequences of this projection (including health, financial and property losses and one general severity item) as main predictor, and environmental values (New Ecological Paradigm-scale by Dunlap et al., 2000), political affiliation (7-point scale ranging from ‘strong democrat’ to ‘strong republican’), levels of numeracy (using the adaptive version of the Berlin Numeracy Test, BNT, Cokely et al., 2012), age, gender, and levels of education. We studied further (2) how ‘listeners’ interpret the two different verbal frames (N = 385, listener2.RData). Listeners were randomly allocated to two different experimental groups. As main dependent variable, we measured their perceived severity of consequences of precipitation change, and as covariates environmental values, levels of numeracy, and demographic variables, all as described for study 1. Samples for both studies were recruited via Amazon Mechanical Turk in spring 2017. Answers of participants were collected using the survey software Unipark. Both studies were preregistered at the Open Science Framework, and all materials and measures used can be found at osf.io/3tr4h. The R-Code used for analysing the study results is stored in the .R-files models_speakers_replicationApril2017.R and models_listeners_replicationApril2017.R.

Keywords:	climate change, climate beliefs, uncertainty communication, framing effects
Subjects:	N000 - Business & administrative studies > N200 - Management studies
Divisions:	Faculty of Business > Management
Related resources:	Location Type https://doi.org/10.1175/WCAS-D-18-0002.1 Publication https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/139473/ Publication
License:	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Date deposited:	27 Jul 2017 08:38
URI:	https://archive.researchdata.leeds.ac.uk/id/eprint/181
Additional details Additional details Creators or authors: Creators ORCID Other ID Email Primary affiliation Primary affiliation ID Primary affiliation ID type Secondary affiliation Secondary affiliation ID Secondary affiliation ID type Kause, Astrid https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0121-2406 University of Leeds https://ror.org/024mrxd33 ror Max Planck Institute for Human Development https://ror.org/02pp7px91 ror Townsend, Tarlise https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7459-9798 University of Michigan https://ror.org/00jmfr291 ror Gaissmaier, Wolfgang https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6273-178X Max Planck Institute for Human Development https://ror.org/02pp7px91 ror University of Konstanz https://ror.org/0546hnb39 ror Type of data: Dataset Publication date: 2017 Resource language: English Metadata language: English Publisher: University of Leeds Contact email: A.Kause@leeds.ac.uk Last Modified: 13 Aug 2024 14:17

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Study 1 results [88kB] Study 1 results [88kB] Study 1 results [88kB] Security: Anyone File name: speaker2.Rdata Content type: Data Description: Verbal frames chosen by study participants for summarising a climate projection; their climate change and environmental values, political affiliation and diverse demographic variables License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) File size: 88kB

Study 2 results [65kB] Study 2 results [65kB] Study 2 results [65kB] Security: Anyone File name: listener2.Rdata Content type: Data Description: In 2 experimental groups, study participants were presented with differently framed statements for summarising a climate projection. License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) File size: 65kB

Codefile for Analysis of Study 1 Data [1kB] Codefile for Analysis of Study 1 Data [1kB] Codefile for Analysis of Study 1 Data [1kB] Security: Anyone File name: models_speakers_replicationApril2017.R Content type: Data Description: Logistic regression models and model comparison statistics for analysis of Speaker2.Rdata License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) File size: 1kB

Codefile for Analysis of Study 2 Data [1kB] Codefile for Analysis of Study 2 Data [1kB] Codefile for Analysis of Study 2 Data [1kB] Security: Anyone File name: models_listeners_replicationApril2017.R Content type: Data Description: Linear regression models and model comparison statistics for analysis of Listener2.Rdata License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) File size: 1kB