Thea Gregersen: Do we need to talk (less) about climate anxiety?

Since 2019, the term climate anxiety has increasingly appeared in the academic literature and popular discourse, coinciding with the uprise of youth climate activism. In this talk, I will present results from a survey investigating public perceptions of and reactions to the term and discuss potential explanations for the findings. Knowledge of how people perceive psychological buzzwords, such as climate anxiety, is important because it could influence their willingness to self-report this state, their views of the people associated with it, and how they believe society should respond to them.