Fear appeal strategies in climate change education: Food for thought from a literature review

[Excerto] Despite the widespread adoption of fear appeal strategies across several domains to discourage risky behaviors, these messages are often controversial (Tannenbaum et al., 2015), particularly in climate change education (O'Neill & Nicholson-Cole, 2009). Therefore, the current chapter intends to present the main theoretical and empirical contributions of the fear appeal literature to provide cliamte change educators with valuable insights to guide their practice.
This work was funded by National Funds through the FCT - Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia, I.P., under the scope of the NoPLANetB Project (doi:10.54499/PTDC/PSI-GER/1892/2021), and was partially conducted at CIPsi, School of Psychology, University of Minho, supported by FCT (UID/PSI/01662/2020) through the Portuguese State Budget.