The reality of anthropogenic climate change has been established 'beyond reasonable
doubt'by leading scientists worldwide. Applying a systematic literature review process, we …

Despite several decades of research on more effectively communicating climate change to
the general public, there is only a limited amount of knowledge about how young people …

This systematic literature review examined the research on prior knowledge and its
activation to ascertain how these terms are defined, what specific techniques have been …

Science is of critical importance to daily life in a knowledge society and has a significant
influence on many everyday decisions. As scientific problems increase in their number and …

Children and young people are often positioned as the next generation of leaders in whom
the public imagines or expects to overcome the legacies of climate and environmental …

Plausibility is a central but under-examined topic in conceptual change research. Climate
change is an important socio-scientific topic; however, many view human-induced climate …

The divergence of public opinion and climate science in the English‐speaking world,
particularly the United States and Australia, has attracted a variety of explanations. One of …

Anthropogenic influences on nature have produced and will produce major consequences
for societies (Dıaz, Fargione, Chapin, & Tilman, 2006). Yet, people within industrialized …

Global climate change is receiving increasing attention as a classroom topic. At the same
time, research has shown that individuals have strong emotions about the topic. Emotions …

This study examined the relationship among cognitive and motivational variables impacting
college students' willingness to take mitigative action to reduce the impacts of human …