believe that Orenstein could have been better prepared since in my opinion it seemed that he did not answer the questions. From this seminar I took away two main lessons, one the most important is that you have to be prepared and know every aspect of your research, even if you are using other sources. The second lesson I took away from this presentation is that other scholars may have the same ideas as you and may beat you to publishing a similar research, thus your research has to stand out and be unique in some aspect. The second presentation was an Emerging Scholar Conference which took place on November 11 in the Eldersveld Room, 5670 Haven Hall as well. This presentation was presented by Elijah Cole Stanley, titled “Climate Concern:
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The research question that Stanley is trying to understand is how anxiety causes individuals to react to policies pertaining to climate change. This is an important question because as Stanley described it emotion is starting to transition from a dependent variable to an independent variable, that different emotions causes different outcomes, and the importance of the message and how it is presented. He further explains that it is important to understand anxiety because there is a lack of unity in the literature on the topic of what induces anxiety. The thesis of this research is that the more personal climate change is experienced by the participants pertaining to location, and time range the higher the anxiety that they experience thus the more likely they are to want to support policies that reduce climate change. The methodology that Stanley uses is based on logic: emotions causes different perspectives on certain issues, anxiety is the fear of the unknown, a serious issue that is presented to effect an individual directly will cause fear or anxiety in that individual, the fear will cause the individual to support policies and undertake tasks to minimize the issue and the impact it has on …show more content…
These experiments would be randomized experiments in which Stanley identified the dependent variable would be the support for climate policy, while party identification and age are potentially relevant moderators. The method in which Stanley would present the information would be a video ad similar to those that pop up on YouTube, with visual content held constant. In the first experiment Stanley has a written statement which in the control, and then he will change the writing to be front loaded or short term which states “in 30 years the effects of global warming” and a back loaded or long term which states “in 100 years the effects of global warming.” In the second experiment he will test geographic proximity which will also have the same statement control as in the first experiment, but will change the statement three different times to include “state”, “nation”, and “globe”. The third experiment will be a survey instrument which will manipulate attention and emotions and look for three main dependent variables: policy support, willingness to incur cost, and relative support. Stanley hopes that the data will have potential implications that include “a framework for anxiety induction, drafting convincing messages on a crucial topic, and an understanding of
The research question that Stanley is trying to understand is how anxiety causes individuals to react to policies pertaining to climate change. This is an important question because as Stanley described it emotion is starting to transition from a dependent variable to an independent variable, that different emotions causes different outcomes, and the importance of the message and how it is presented. He further explains that it is important to understand anxiety because there is a lack of unity in the literature on the topic of what induces anxiety. The thesis of this research is that the more personal climate change is experienced by the participants pertaining to location, and time range the higher the anxiety that they experience thus the more likely they are to want to support policies that reduce climate change. The methodology that Stanley uses is based on logic: emotions causes different perspectives on certain issues, anxiety is the fear of the unknown, a serious issue that is presented to effect an individual directly will cause fear or anxiety in that individual, the fear will cause the individual to support policies and undertake tasks to minimize the issue and the impact it has on …show more content…
These experiments would be randomized experiments in which Stanley identified the dependent variable would be the support for climate policy, while party identification and age are potentially relevant moderators. The method in which Stanley would present the information would be a video ad similar to those that pop up on YouTube, with visual content held constant. In the first experiment Stanley has a written statement which in the control, and then he will change the writing to be front loaded or short term which states “in 30 years the effects of global warming” and a back loaded or long term which states “in 100 years the effects of global warming.” In the second experiment he will test geographic proximity which will also have the same statement control as in the first experiment, but will change the statement three different times to include “state”, “nation”, and “globe”. The third experiment will be a survey instrument which will manipulate attention and emotions and look for three main dependent variables: policy support, willingness to incur cost, and relative support. Stanley hopes that the data will have potential implications that include “a framework for anxiety induction, drafting convincing messages on a crucial topic, and an understanding of