Pope Francis's 2015 encyclical on climate change, "Laudato si'," sought to leverage the pontiff's moral authority and draw attention to climate change as a global issue that disproportionately harms the poor.
Advocates for climate change mitigation had hoped that that urgent message, coming from the leader of a socially conservative religious institution, would raise concern over climate change among U.S. conservatives, especially Catholic conservatives.
But a study published online today in the journal Cognition by researchers at the Annenberg Public Policy Center (APPC) of the University of Pennsylvania found that the encyclical did not directly influence people's beliefs about the seriousness of climate change or its effect on the poor. The papal message did, however, indirectly influence people's beliefs about climate change by raising the Pope's credibility on that issue, most strongly among liberals.
Phys.org: Pope's encyclical boosted his credibility on climate change, especially among liberals
We're not surprised conservatives didn't change and there's various science going into why they have little capability for change but the assumption is there are no Catholic liberals and that's not true.
Ed: the Pope?
Exactly
I'm in the game on this one since I'm an Old Timey liberal who understands bombing the Middle East has nothing to do with liberalism and only maintains the status quo.
I'm also not a Catholic but I've been greatly admiring of Pope Francis as a singular point of light in world which has relatively few of them. We saw Bush's 'thousand points of lights' aren't real but Pope Francis is undeniable.
While he did not boost the credibility of climate change with me, he boosted the credibility of Catholicism enormously, something it's been sorely lacking in America due to the obsession with sophomoric trivia while ignoring the bigger situations such as climate control, etc.
"It is through perceptions of Pope Francis's credibility - which are either bolstered by liberal ideology, undermined by conservative ideology, or, in the case of non-Catholics' perceptions of climate change's effect on the poor, bolstered by encyclical awareness - that the encyclical messages are either accepted or rejected," the researchers concluded.
The study "Processing the papal encyclical through perceptual filters: Pope Francis, identity-protective cognition, and climate change concern," is available on the Cognition site and will be published in Volume 166 (September 2017). In addition to Landrum, the authors include APPC postdoctoral fellows Robert B. Lull, Heather Akin, and Ariel Hassel, and APPC director Kathleen Hall Jamieson.
- PO
There interested student is invited to pursue this but the irony is only Old Timey liberals are likely to do it and that alone could shock the Vatican to its gunwales.
Ed: what change did you ever have to make to your thinking? Pfft
There was a beautiful Galaxy Synth, broken and now retired, and there was a stage-strength keyboard stand to support it which has also been retired since there's no chance I can ever afford to get another decent synth. Once I was a musician and now apparently I'm not.
How much change are you needing to see?
What if I suicide right on the stage
Would it satisfy your teenage lust?
Would it ease your pain, ease your pain?
- Rolling Stones
Advocates for climate change mitigation had hoped that that urgent message, coming from the leader of a socially conservative religious institution, would raise concern over climate change among U.S. conservatives, especially Catholic conservatives.
But a study published online today in the journal Cognition by researchers at the Annenberg Public Policy Center (APPC) of the University of Pennsylvania found that the encyclical did not directly influence people's beliefs about the seriousness of climate change or its effect on the poor. The papal message did, however, indirectly influence people's beliefs about climate change by raising the Pope's credibility on that issue, most strongly among liberals.
Phys.org: Pope's encyclical boosted his credibility on climate change, especially among liberals
We're not surprised conservatives didn't change and there's various science going into why they have little capability for change but the assumption is there are no Catholic liberals and that's not true.
Ed: the Pope?
Exactly
I'm in the game on this one since I'm an Old Timey liberal who understands bombing the Middle East has nothing to do with liberalism and only maintains the status quo.
I'm also not a Catholic but I've been greatly admiring of Pope Francis as a singular point of light in world which has relatively few of them. We saw Bush's 'thousand points of lights' aren't real but Pope Francis is undeniable.
While he did not boost the credibility of climate change with me, he boosted the credibility of Catholicism enormously, something it's been sorely lacking in America due to the obsession with sophomoric trivia while ignoring the bigger situations such as climate control, etc.
"It is through perceptions of Pope Francis's credibility - which are either bolstered by liberal ideology, undermined by conservative ideology, or, in the case of non-Catholics' perceptions of climate change's effect on the poor, bolstered by encyclical awareness - that the encyclical messages are either accepted or rejected," the researchers concluded.
The study "Processing the papal encyclical through perceptual filters: Pope Francis, identity-protective cognition, and climate change concern," is available on the Cognition site and will be published in Volume 166 (September 2017). In addition to Landrum, the authors include APPC postdoctoral fellows Robert B. Lull, Heather Akin, and Ariel Hassel, and APPC director Kathleen Hall Jamieson.
- PO
There interested student is invited to pursue this but the irony is only Old Timey liberals are likely to do it and that alone could shock the Vatican to its gunwales.
Ed: what change did you ever have to make to your thinking? Pfft
There was a beautiful Galaxy Synth, broken and now retired, and there was a stage-strength keyboard stand to support it which has also been retired since there's no chance I can ever afford to get another decent synth. Once I was a musician and now apparently I'm not.
How much change are you needing to see?
What if I suicide right on the stage
Would it satisfy your teenage lust?
Would it ease your pain, ease your pain?
- Rolling Stones
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