Matthew T. Ballew
Yale University
39 Papers
31 Citations
Matthew T. Ballew is an academic researcher from Yale University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Global warming & Climate change. The author has an hindex of 17, co-authored 35 publications. Previous affiliations of Matthew T. Ballew include Chapman University & Claremont Graduate University.
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Papers
Geeks versus climate change: understanding American video gamers’ engagement with global warming
Jennifer P. Carman,Marina Psaros,Seth A. Rosenthal,Jennifer R. Marlon,Marija Verner,Sanguk Lee,Matthew H. Goldberg,Matthew T. Ballew,Anthony Leiserowitz +8 more
TL;DR: This study examines the potential of video gamers as a target audience for climate change communication, finding that gamers are slightly more likely to take collective action on global warming, particularly when exposed to climate content in gaming.
Illuminating the link between perceived threat and control over climate change: the role of attributions for causation and mitigation
TL;DR: This paper examined two possible mediators of this paradoxical relationship utilizing data from a large socioeconomically diverse sample of the US adults collected in 2015 and found that attributing responsibility for either causing or mitigating climate change to government entities would bolster perceived collective control for addressing the problem.
What counts as an “environmental” issue? Differences in issue conceptualization by race, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status
Hwanseok Song,Neil A. Lewis,Matthew T. Ballew,Mario Bravo,Julie Davydova,H. Oliver Gao,Robert J. Garcia,Sofia Hiltner,Sarah M. Naiman,Adam R. Pearson,Rainer Romero-Canyas,Jonathon P. Schuldt +11 more
TL;DR: The authors found that non-White and lower-SES respondents would rate a greater number of pressing societal issues as also "environmental" than white and higher SES respondents, across 18 issues, ranging from ecological issues more traditionally the focus of environmental advocacy and scholarship to issues that also constitute human social determinants and consequences of environmental risk.
Predictors of global warming risk perceptions among Latino and non-Latino White Americans
Matthew H. Goldberg,Abel Gustafson,Matthew T. Ballew,Seth A. Rosenthal,Matthew J. Cutler,Anthony Leiserowitz +5 more
TL;DR: The authors found that Latinos in the USA are more engaged with global warming than are non-Latino Whites, in part, because they are more likely to perceive it as a serious risk.