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Extreme weather and climate change attitudes: Limited partisan motivated reasoning in response to Sweden's 2018 heatwave
Mid Sweden University, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Östersund, Sweden.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-5308-1049
Luleå University of Technology, Department of Social Sciences, Technology and Arts, Social Sciences. University of Gothenburg, Center for Collective Action Research (CeCAR), Gothenburg, Sweden.ORCID iD: 0000-0001-7646-1813
2025 (English)In: Journal of Environmental Psychology, ISSN 0272-4944, E-ISSN 1522-9610, Vol. 106, article id 102743Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Research suggests that the extent to which exposure to extreme weather events reduces the ‘psychological distance’ of climate change and strengthen policy attitudes, is moderated by partisanship and ideology. Still, evidence remains mixed, and it is unclear to what extent such moderation effects are conditioned by the political context. In this paper, we investigate how extreme weather events affects climate change attitudes in a context defined by an overarching political consensus on climate change. Focusing on Sweden, and the extremely warm summer of 2018, we use gridded meteorological data and nationally representative survey data to estimate how extremes in temperature and precipitation, and exposure to wildfire, affects climate change attitudes. While results show that exposure to extremes increases both climate change concern and policy support, there is almost no evidence that political stance moderates this effect. The politicization of individual experiences of extreme events are thus limited in this political context. 

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Academic Press , 2025. Vol. 106, article id 102743
Keywords [en]
Extreme weather events, Climate change attitudes, Policy support, Psychological distance, Partisan motivated reasoning, Sweden
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Climate Science
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Political Science
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URN: urn:nbn:se:ltu:diva-114574DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvp.2025.102743ISI: 001564252200001Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-105014537266OAI: oai:DiVA.org:ltu-114574DiVA, id: diva2:1996269
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Swedish Research Council Formas, 2019-00583
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Validerad;2025;Nivå 2;2025-09-09 (u8);

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