Steffen Koch

The usual useful idiots

And it looks nice, too!

Schauen wir mal, was dabei raus kommt. So wahnsinnig optimistisch bin ich ja nicht...

I also wonder about longterm effects (the study tested short-term effects, as far as I can see).

Climate change terminology does not influence willingness to take climate action Despite widespread concern about climate change, a majority of people are not engaging in climate actions necessary to help decrease the risks posed b…

This study is interesting. The discussion relating it to linguistic relativity is misleading, though, since that's not about how something is called, but whether a language has a term for a category to begin with.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Climate Terminology Does Not Matter Our new paper finds that swapping out one climate term for another does not meaningfully change people’s stated commitment to fight climate change

Climate Terminology Does Not Matter

Across tens of thousands of participants in two large-scale experiments, we found that labeling climate change in different ways had no effect on their stated willingness to act.
jayvanbavellab.substack.com/p/climate-te...

via @dgoldwert.bsky.social

This is very interesting data!

Trump und die ‚woke Sprachpolizei‘: Alles nur Sprachmagie? Steffen Koch (Universität Bielefeld) „Minorität“, „Identität“, „Hassrede“, „Aktivismus“, „Klimakrise“, „anti-rassistisch“ und „F

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