Cool dudes: The denial of climate change among conservative white males in the United States. McCright, A. & Dunlap, R. Global Environmental Change, 21(4):1163–1172, 2011. 1doi abstract bibtex We examine whether conservative white males are more likely than are other adults in the U.S. general public to endorse climate change denial. We draw theoretical and analytical guidance from the identity-protective cognition thesis explaining the white male effect and from recent political psychology scholarship documenting the heightened system-justification tendencies of political conservatives. We utilize public opinion data from ten Gallup surveys from 2001 to 2010, focusing specifically on five indicators of climate change denial. We find that conservative white males are significantly more likely than are other Americans to endorse denialist views on all five items, and that these differences are even greater for those conservative white males who self-report understanding global warming very well. Furthermore, the results of our multivariate logistic regression models reveal that the conservative white male effect remains significant when controlling for the direct effects of political ideology, race, and gender as well as the effects of nine control variables. We thus conclude that the unique views of conservative white males contribute significantly to the high level of climate change denial in the United States. © 2011 Elsevier Ltd.
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title = {Cool dudes: {The} denial of climate change among conservative white males in the {United} {States}},
volume = {21},
shorttitle = {Cool dudes},
doi = {10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2011.06.003},
abstract = {We examine whether conservative white males are more likely than are other adults in the U.S. general public to endorse climate change denial. We draw theoretical and analytical guidance from the identity-protective cognition thesis explaining the white male effect and from recent political psychology scholarship documenting the heightened system-justification tendencies of political conservatives. We utilize public opinion data from ten Gallup surveys from 2001 to 2010, focusing specifically on five indicators of climate change denial. We find that conservative white males are significantly more likely than are other Americans to endorse denialist views on all five items, and that these differences are even greater for those conservative white males who self-report understanding global warming very well. Furthermore, the results of our multivariate logistic regression models reveal that the conservative white male effect remains significant when controlling for the direct effects of political ideology, race, and gender as well as the effects of nine control variables. We thus conclude that the unique views of conservative white males contribute significantly to the high level of climate change denial in the United States. © 2011 Elsevier Ltd.},
language = {en},
number = {4},
journal = {Global Environmental Change},
author = {McCright, A.M. and Dunlap, R.E.},
year = {2011},
note = {1},
keywords = {5 Ignorance and manufactured doubt, Climate change denial, Gender, Ignorance et mécanismes de production du doute, PRINTED (Fonds papier), Political ideology, Public opinion, Race},
pages = {1163--1172},
}
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