Framing discourse around conservative values shifts climate change attitudes

Science Daily ^ | 4/26/2016 | Oregon State University

[GingisK]

Researchers found that people who identified as conservative were more likely to support "pro-environmental" ideals when the issues were framed as matters of obeying authority...

I'm throwing the BS flag on the play. I don't obey anyone who is an idiot.

[FlingWingFlyer]

It’s called lying, brainwashing and propaganda.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Truly spoken like a bunch of guys who have not set foot outside of the ivory tower for three or four decades.

[Patriotic1]

I doubt they tested each of the attributes separately, but rather assumed the clustering of them. I've never met a conservative who was a blind follower of authority either! Or... it could be that since many conservatives are religious, they think that our desire to follow God and clergy/theologians manifests itself to everything in life.

Being Catholic, I place a high value on what comes from the Church in terms of faith and morals, and certain teachings. But that doesn't mean I don't sift through everything carefully because at the end of the day, I'm responsible before God.

[ConjunctionJunction]

"That does not mean people should reframe critical discourse to manipulate attitudes about environmental concerns, Wolsko said."

Sure....

[Slyfox]

My parents took us kids camping all over Michigan. Before we left any campsite my mother would make all of us kids pick up every piece of trash, little pieces of paper, matchsticks and bottle caps before we could get in the car to leave. She told us that it was very important for us to leave things better than we found them.

She also had my dad drive by a park where the hippies had just celebrated one of the first Earth Days. Those hippies did not have a mother like mine. The park was littered very badly and my mom pointed out how unmannerly those hippies were that they would leave such a mess.

These enviro-freaks professors are just trying to scientifically figure out how to make conservatives think like a bunch of stupid hippies.

[subterfuge]

The must always “frame” their arguments very strategically in order for them to seem palatable. Always.

[glock rocks]

Now I have an urge to burn some tires.

[justa-hairyape]

If only the climate change cult had spent this much time on actual science.

[Darnright]

Perhaps conservatives respond to subjects like real pollution, as opposed to Al Gore inspired Global Warming hysterics.

[HotHunt]

So, in other words, if the Left just alters the wording and phrasing of their sales pitch on climate change to fit the cultural ideals of the Right, then we will all fall head over heels for their little Marxist hoax.

NOT.

[thirst4truth]

authority and purity and paired them with imagery such as flags and bald eagles.

Did they show pictures to these R's and D's of the dead bald eagles, Osprey's, pelicans, hawks and owls, spotted some of them, at the base of their beloved windmills, surely not.

How abut the grown men who only knew the woods all their life being told at age 50, no more harvesting timber that is mean to "mother nature, so go to school, learn about computers it will be fun!!

[Little Ray]

As a conservative, I’ve become a terrible hippie - save the cod banks, oysters, etc.
But mostly so they’ll be there to exploit later...
Or, in the case of manatees and turtles, ‘cause they’re cute...
Couch environmentalism in those terms, and I might agree with you. “Save now so you can exploit later!”

[Steve_Seattle]

"when the issues were framed as matters of obeying authority"

My BS alarm just went off. This is just a rehash of the pro-big-government people calling the pro-small-government people "authoritarian." It's not conservatives who put up "IT'S THE LAW!" signs in government offices, and in rejecting global warming alarmism, conservatives are accused of rejecting the "authority of science."

[kosciusko51]

This is exactly what hunting licenses do in many states. The license fees helps to preserve and promote the habitats of game animals in sufficient quantities to allow hunting.

There can be conservation without dictatorial control. Just figure out how it can profit your fellow man to do it.

[Steve_Seattle]

I would love to see these experiments in all their details. I have little doubt that all the questions were framed in such a way as to get exactly the result the researchers were looking for. I’ve seen a lot of these politicized “psychology experiments” in recent years.

[Little Ray]

Funny how they never take that route, though.

[kosciusko51]

I think the idea is completely foreign to them.

[SunkenCiv]

Climate Bullies Ping.