How Psychological Distance Influences Climate Change Importance for Republicans: Evidence From a Conjoint Experiment

• In Event: Death and Other Disasters

Brief Overview

This study conducts a conjoint experiment with a novel operationalization of psychological distance to examine whether Republicans assign higher issue importance to climate change when natural disaster victims are co-partisans.

Authors

• Wei Wang, University of Wisconsin–Madison

• Jing Ling Tan, Harvard University

• Wei-Ting Tsai, National Cheng Kung University