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Correlates of Accuracy and Inaccuracy in the Perception of the Climate of Opinion for Four Environmental Issues
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The authors examined some of the psychological and social structural correlates of accuracy and inaccuracy in assessments of the climate of opinion about environmental problems using data from a telephone survey of 1,002 adults.Abstract:
This study examines some of the psychological and social structural correlates of accuracy and inaccuracy in assessments of the climate of opinion about environmental problems using data from a telephone survey of 1,002 adults. News media use, news media influence, and information seeking were associated consistently with accurate assessments of the majority opinion. Situational theory's problem and constraint recognition were associated with accurate estimates of the climate of opinion and provided a means of determining whether or not respondents were actually accurate or were simply projecting their own opinions to the majority. Interpersonal discussions and environmental concern were associated with inaccurate assessments of majority opinion.read more
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Firm responses to secondary stakeholder action
Charles E. Eesley,Michael Lenox +1 more
TL;DR: This paper builds upon and advances Mitchell, Agle, and Wood's stakeholder saliency and identification framework by defining saliency in terms of actions, not perceptions, and proposing that power, legitimacy, and urgency arise out of the nature of stakeholder–request–firm triplets.
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The Spiral of Silence: Public Opinion—Our Social Skin. By Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1984. Pp. xi + 184. $20.00.)
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Firm responses to secondary stakeholder action.
Charles E. Eesley,Michael Lenox +1 more
TL;DR: The conditions under which secondary stakeholder groups are likely to elicit positive firm responses are explored and a stakeholder saliency and identification framework is built upon by proposing that power, legitimacy, and urgency arise out of the nature of stakeholder - request - firm triplets.
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Stimulating the Quasi-statistical Organ Fear of Social Isolation Motivates the Quest for Knowledge of the Opinion Climate
TL;DR: Study results support spiral of silence theory’s prediction—FSI does appear to motivate people to ascertain what the public thinks, however, there may be some cultural boundaries to this process.
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