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ABSTRACT
In environmental conflicts, people judge others’ right to have representation in and influence on the focal issue, judgments referred to as perceived standing in this paper. This study explores the possible attitudinal and motivational antecedents driving these judgments. In a survey on a local gas storage project, participants expressed perceptions about the standing of members from other relatively distant communities. Reflecting peoples’ motivation to have more allies and fewer opponents in the issue, attitudes toward the project and beliefs about the project’s risks and benefits predicted perceived standing. In addition, perceived similarity to the targets being judged, place attachment, and perceptions of oneself being underrepresented in the issue also affected perceived standing, accounting for unique variance.
Disclosure statement
No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).
Data availability statement
Data supporting the results or analyses presented in the paper can be found from the following digital object identifier: https://doi.org/10.4231/CNW9-GS78.
ORCID
Hwanseok Song http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0995-0291
Notes
1 The notion of “relatively distant” does not reflect physical distance conceptually. Rather, it is used here to denote specific entities being judged (i.e. Cayuga and Tompkins County residents) in this context that hold relatively less immediate stake in the disputed environmental issue because their communities are not physically adjacent to the lake. In this study’s context, these “relatively distant” communities also happen to take an apparently specific position toward the issue (i.e. opposition to the gas storage project).