Blar i Department of Psychosocial Science på forfatter "Pfister, Hans-Rudiger"
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Attentional focus and anticipated emotions in the face of future environmental risks: Should I take the train or drive my car?
Böhm, Gisela; Pfister, Hans-Rudiger (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015)This study presents an experiment investigating the effects of attentional focus and valence of experience on anticipated emotions and on intentions to drive by car or to use public transportation. Car driving is associated ... -
E-privacy concerns: A facet theoretical approach
Bøhm, Gisela Petra; Pfister, Hans-Rudiger; Pereira, Vanessa Ayres; Tjøstheim, Ingvar (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Although the ubiquitous use of smartphones and social media poses serious risks to the privacy of users, research is sparse regarding how users perceive these risks. We present a study investigating the perception of ... -
Emotional reactions to climate change: A comparison across France, Germany, Norway, and the United Kingdom
Bøhm, Gisela Petra; Pfister, Hans-Rudiger; Doran, Rouven; Ogunbode, Charles Adedayo; Poortinga, Wouter; Tvinnereim, Endre Meyer; Steentjes, Katharine; Mays, Claire; Bertoldo, Raquel; Sonnberger, Marco; Pidgeon, Nicholas (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)We present a study of emotional reactions to climate change utilizing representative samples from France, Germany, Norway, and the United Kingdom (UK). Drawing on appraisal theories of emotion, we examine relations between ... -
Expected climate change consequences and their role in explaining individual risk judgments
Gregersen, Thea Johansen; Doran, Rouven; Bøhm, Gisela Petra; Pfister, Hans-Rudiger (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)This study examines what individuals expect will be the most important impacts of climate change on their respective countries, and how these expectations relate to individual risk judgments. Open-ended responses from ... -
How people explain their own and others' behavior: A theory of lay causal explanations
Böhm, Gisela; Pfister, Hans-Rudiger (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015-02-18)A theoretical model is proposed that specifies lay causal theories of behavior; and supporting experimental evidence is presented. The model’s basic assumption is that different types of behavior trigger different hypotheses ... -
Laypeople's affective images of energy transition pathways
Böhm, Gisela; Doran, Rouven; Pfister, Hans-Rudiger (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2018-10-10)This paper explores the public perception of energy transition pathways, that is, individual behaviors, political strategies, and technologies that aim to foster a shift toward a low-carbon and sustainable society. We ... -
Pathways to energy transition: A faceted taxonomy
Böhm, Gisela; Doran, Rouven; Rødeseike, Annika; Pfister, Hans-Rudiger (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)The article deals with the public perception of energy transition pathways, that is, of strategies towards sustainable ways of energy use. Implementing sustainable pathways poses a major challenge for organizations and ... -
The perceiver’s social role and a risk’s causal structure as determinants of environmental risk evaluation
Böhm, Gisela; Pfister, Hans-Rudiger (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015)We present a dual-process risk perception model that integrates cognitive and emotional as well as consequentialist and deontological components by distinguishing between two modes of evaluative processing: (a) a ... -
Remembering and Communicating Climate Change Narratives – The Influence of World Views on Selective Recollection
Böhm, Gisela; Pfister, Hans-Rudiger; Salway, Andrew; Fløttum, Kjersti (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-05-07)We examine how people remember stories about climate change and how they communicate these stories to others. Drawing on theories of reconstructive memory and cultural theory, we assume that recollection is systematically ...