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At the conference, Chen also presented a survey experiment study titled “Framing Effects on Public Support for Imported Liquefied Natural Gas in Germany,” coauthored with Verena Benoit at University of Bamberg, Germany.
Chen and Benoit conducted a multi-stage experiment in Germany in summer 2026 to investigate two research questions under the backdrop of the Strait of Hormuz crisis: how climate change framing and energy security framing affect German respondents’ preferences toward using imported liquefied natural gas as an energy source, and what explains such effects.
Posted September 10, 2026
