Big thanks to all the collaborators β€οΈ:
Simon Fassnacht,
@markusforamitti.bsky.social
@janakoehler.bsky.social
@todorova.bsky.social
@clauslamm.bsky.social
@mauriciojdmartins.bsky.social
oh and also I worked on this for much longer than this past month of course π«
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The start of LG protests or total past coverage didnβt have clear lasting effects. This suggests the Radical Flank Effect is short-lived and needs sustained attention to stay impactful. How much this truly affected attitudes towards more sustainable climate policies also remains unclear.
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We found that more Last Generation coverage in the past 30 days led to more positive media attitudes toward FFF across left- and right-wing outlets and in user comments of left-wing outlets. But in right-wing outlets' user comments, it had the opposite effect: more negativity.
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For this purpose we analyzed:
βΆοΈ 2,376 news articles
βΆοΈ 192,973 user comments
We used GPT4 (validated beforehand) to assess attitudes toward FFF in these texts and tested how the start of LG protests and media coverage predicted shifts in sentiments.
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We studied how German media framings and readers' attitudes towards Fridays For Future were influenced by protests from the more disruptive Last Generation. This offers real-world insights into the RFE complementing prior studies conducted in highly controlled settings.
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The Radical Flank Effect (RFE) suggests that disruptive protests can shift and boost public support for more moderate groups following the same cause. Even unpopular disruptive actions can thus benefit a cause by helping others in their movement gain traction.
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OSF
One month into my phd and my first preprint is out - at this pace I'll be done by the end of the year, right? π₯³
"Radical climate protests shaped portrayals of moderate activists and reader attitudes in German news media"
Read here or theπ§΅: osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Postdoc @ SEVEN, the interdisciplinary climate institute of the University of Amsterdam || Climate action, tipping points, sufficiency, social movements. https://fabiandablander.com/
Assistant Prof of Environmental Behavioral Sciences at Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability. Director of the Stanford Climate Cognition Lab https://climatecognition.stanford.edu
Social Scientist | Social Psychologist | Scientist & Parent for Future | Views my own
Environmental Psychology department at the Faculty of Behavioural and Social Sciences at the University of Groningen π
Group leader - Eawagγ
£Previously at Harvard & ETH Zurichγ
£Trust in science, science-policy interface, environmental psychology
Postdoctoral Researcher | Social Norms & Sustainability πΏ | Princeton University @andlingercenter.bsky.social
Scientific Director @jresearcherprog.bsky.social & Senior Research Fellow @envpsyvienna.bsky.social @univie.ac.at
Psychology, behavior & environment, especially climate change. Uni of Amsterdam; Assoc. Editor πππ°π£π’π ππ―π·. ππ΄πΊπ€π©π°ππ°π¨πΊ π¬ c.brick@uva.nl www.cameronbrick.com -- https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=MeoqEYgAAAAJ&hl=en
PhD in #EnvironmentalPsychology | Postdoctoral researcher at Institute of Environmental Systems Sciences at @uni-graz.at
Senior Research Fellow @envpsyvienna.bsky.social @univie.ac.at
https://researchgate.net/profile/Leonie-Fian
Environmental Psychology Research Group at the University of Vienna
(@univie.ac.at) | Led by Sabine Pahl (@sabinepahl.bsky.social). |
Webpage: https://env-psy.univie.ac.at/
Academic nomad | Wandering neuroscientist | Climate worrier | Assistant Professor @ Leiden University, views very obviously mine | https://anneurai.net/
Postdoc | Environmental Psychology π±@ University of Konstanz & Seeburg University
Researching energy behavior change | social identity | behavioral public policy | climate change mitigation & adaptation
PhD Candidate - Neuroscience | Nutrition @uniwien
Environmental social scientist @ Yale University (YPCCC)
Working on climate activism, plant-based diets, messaging experiments etc.
https://lathowal.wixsite.com/laura-thomas-walters
Psycholog*innen & Psychotherapeut*innen mit ambitionierten Klimazielen.
FΓΌr eine nachhaltige, gesunde, demokratische, sozial und global gerechte Welt.
https://www.psy4f.org/datenschutz/
PhD candidate Social/Environmental Psychology at the University of Amsterdam
Climate social scientist at Oxford and Bath universities
Psychology of Sustainable Development | University of Geneva
PhD. Senior Lecturer TU Dublin Sustainability & Action Research, Transport, Walkability, Walking, Cycling, Civil Engineering, Public Health, Behaviour Science, Social Cohesion, Gender, Human Centred Design...
PhD candidate in cognitive neuroscience @ Wagner Lab https://www.isabellawagner.com, University of Vienna π§ Investigating the gut-brain axis in spatial navigation π¦ π§π
