From Denial of Facts to Rationalization and Avoidance: Ideology, Needs, and Gender Predict the Spectrum of Climate Denial
Publisher: Personality and Individual Differences
Author(s): Marlis Charlotte Wullenkord
Date: 2022
Topics: Climate Change, Gender
Climate denial takes many forms, ranging from outright denial of facts (literal denial), over distortion of facts (interpretive denial, e.g., denial of personal and global outcome severity), to the acknowledgement of facts but denial of their implications (implicatory denial, e.g., avoidance, denial of guilt, rationalization of own involvement).