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Cool Dudes in Europe: Climate change denial amongst conservative ‘white’ men

Pederby, Tryggve LU (2019) STVK02 20191
Department of Political Science
Abstract (Swedish)
Why are certain categories of people more likely than others to regard climate change as ‘fake news’? This thesis aims to replicate and expand on two earlier articles from McCright and Dunlap (2011) and Krange et al. (2019) who show that conservative white men are more likely to be climate change deniers in the US and Norway, respectively. This phenomenon is called the cool dude-effect. Theories about the cool dude-effect builds on research in risk perception and political psychology implying that individuals aren’t susceptible to facts that challenge their worldviews. This thesis also adds an intersectional perspective on the cool dude-effect. The objective of this study is to search for the cool dude-effect in a broader European context.... (More)
Why are certain categories of people more likely than others to regard climate change as ‘fake news’? This thesis aims to replicate and expand on two earlier articles from McCright and Dunlap (2011) and Krange et al. (2019) who show that conservative white men are more likely to be climate change deniers in the US and Norway, respectively. This phenomenon is called the cool dude-effect. Theories about the cool dude-effect builds on research in risk perception and political psychology implying that individuals aren’t susceptible to facts that challenge their worldviews. This thesis also adds an intersectional perspective on the cool dude-effect. The objective of this study is to search for the cool dude-effect in a broader European context. To test this, a multilevel logistic regression is used on data from European Social Survey containing 39,000 respondents from 21 European countries. The results indicate, although not with a strong significance, that the cool dude-effect can be seen in a broader European context, indicating that this is a general trend across Western countries. (Less)
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author
Pederby, Tryggve LU
supervisor
organization
course
STVK02 20191
year
type
M2 - Bachelor Degree
subject
keywords
Cool dude-effect, climate change denial, ESS, multilevel logistic regression
language
English
id
8975790
date added to LUP
2019-09-06 09:58:12
date last changed
2019-09-06 09:58:12
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  abstract     = {{Why are certain categories of people more likely than others to regard climate change as ‘fake news’? This thesis aims to replicate and expand on two earlier articles from McCright and Dunlap (2011) and Krange et al. (2019) who show that conservative white men are more likely to be climate change deniers in the US and Norway, respectively. This phenomenon is called the cool dude-effect. Theories about the cool dude-effect builds on research in risk perception and political psychology implying that individuals aren’t susceptible to facts that challenge their worldviews. This thesis also adds an intersectional perspective on the cool dude-effect. The objective of this study is to search for the cool dude-effect in a broader European context. To test this, a multilevel logistic regression is used on data from European Social Survey containing 39,000 respondents from 21 European countries. The results indicate, although not with a strong significance, that the cool dude-effect can be seen in a broader European context, indicating that this is a general trend across Western countries.}},
  author       = {{Pederby, Tryggve}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{Cool Dudes in Europe: Climate change denial amongst conservative ‘white’ men}},
  year         = {{2019}},
}