The effects of gender on climate change knowledge and concern in the American public

AM McCright - Population and environment, 2010 - Springer
This study tests theoretical arguments about gender differences in scientific knowledge and
environmental concern using 8 years of Gallup data on climate change knowledge and …

Evaluating the effects of ideology on public understanding of climate change science: How to improve communication across ideological divides?

A Zia, AM Todd - Public understanding of science, 2010 - journals.sagepub.com
While ideology can have a strong effect on citizen understanding of science, it is unclear
how ideology interacts with other complicating factors, such as college education, which …

Gender, scientific knowledge, and attitudes toward the environment: A cross-national analysis

BC Hayes - Political research quarterly, 2001 - journals.sagepub.com
As of yet, relatively little information exists regarding gender differences in attitudes toward
the environment. This is particularly the case when countries besides the United States and …

Explaining gender differences in concern about environmental problems in the United States

C Xiao, AM McCright - Society & Natural Resources, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
We examine theoretical arguments explaining gender differences in environmental concern
using data from six Gallup surveys in the 2000s. Using confirmatory factor analysis and …

Tracking public beliefs about anthropogenic climate change

LC Hamilton, J Hartter, M Lemcke-Stampone… - PloS one, 2015 - journals.plos.org
A simple question about climate change, with one choice designed to match consensus
statements by scientists, was asked on 35 US nationwide, single-state or regional surveys …

Gender differences in scientific knowledge and attitudes toward science: a comparative study of four Anglo-Americannations

BC Hayes, VN Tariq - Public Understanding of Science, 2000 - iopscience.iop.org
Despite a lack of empirical verification, research analysts and populist commentators have
long assumed that a key factor in explaining anti-scientific attitudes among women is their …

Facing change: Gender and climate change attitudes worldwide

SS Bush, A Clayton - American Political Science Review, 2023 - cambridge.org
Gender differences in concern about climate change are highly correlated with economic
development: when countries are wealthier, a gap emerges whereby women are more likely …

The association of knowledge with concern about global warming: Trusted information sources shape public thinking

A Malka, JA Krosnick, G Langer - Risk Analysis: An International …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
During the last decade, a great deal of news media attention has focused on informing the
American public about scientific findings on global warming (GW). Has learning this sort of …

Gender and environmental concern: Insights from recent work and for future research

AM McCright, C Xiao - Society & Natural Resources, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
Research on environmental concern in the past few decades consistently finds that women
express slightly greater environmental concern than men. This pattern is robust across …

Public awareness and perception of climate change: a quantitative cross-national study

KW Knight - Environmental Sociology, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Research on the extent and sources of international differences in climate change
awareness and perception among general publics could improve understanding of the …