PhD Student @Psychology of Sustainability and Behavior Change in Basel studying pro-environmental decision making and how (dis)information influences climate beliefs.
Zahra Rahmani
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Check out my interview with PLOS Climate, and while you are at it, the other editions of this cool series on young climate researchers. I particularly enjoy reading what others think about the future of climate research: a mix of interesting ideas with a dose of optimism.
Cheers to my co-authors @tspampatti.bsky.social and Ulf Hahnel.
Also, crowd-based message ratings were predictive for downstream outcomes: they significantly predicted shifts in climate change concern and information search behavior. This makes empirical message ratings useful for assessing the quality of climate communication.
We release the validated database with real-world Twitter pro-climate messages (distilled from an original pool of all posts from more than 3600 climate communicators) alongside the preprint. Messages were manually rated and categorized (pre-LLM era ;-) with a taxonomy that we newly developled)
