- home
- Advanced Search
Filters
Year range
-chevron_right GOCountry
Organization
- Energy Research
- Energy Research
description Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article , Journal 2015Publisher:SAGE Publications Authors: Lisa Zaval; Ezra M. Markowitz; Elke U. Weber;pmid: 25560825
Long time horizons and social distance are viewed as key psychological barriers to proenvironmental action, particularly regarding climate change. We suggest that these challenges can be turned into opportunities by making salient long-term goals and motives, thus shifting preferences between the present self and future others. We tested whether individuals’ motivation to leave a positive legacy can be leveraged to increase engagement with climate change and other environmental problems. In a pilot study, we found that individual differences in legacy motivation were positively associated with proenvironmental behaviors and intentions. In a subsequent experiment, we demonstrated that priming legacy motives increased donations to an environmental charity, proenvironmental intentions, and climate-change beliefs. Domain-general legacy motives represent a previously understudied and powerful mechanism for promoting proenvironmental behavior.
Psychological Scienc... arrow_drop_down All Research productsarrow_drop_down <script type="text/javascript"> <!-- document.write('<div id="oa_widget"></div>'); document.write('<script type="text/javascript" src="https://beta.openaire.eu/index.php?option=com_openaire&view=widget&format=raw&projectId=10.1177/0956797614561266&type=result"></script>'); --> </script>For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.euAccess Routesbronze 141 citations 141 popularity Top 1% influence Top 10% impulse Top 10% 
Powered by BIP!more_vert Psychological Scienc... arrow_drop_down All Research productsarrow_drop_down <script type="text/javascript"> <!-- document.write('<div id="oa_widget"></div>'); document.write('<script type="text/javascript" src="https://beta.openaire.eu/index.php?option=com_openaire&view=widget&format=raw&projectId=10.1177/0956797614561266&type=result"></script>'); --> </script>For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eudescription Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article , Other literature type 2024Publisher:American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Authors: Madalina Vlasceanu; Kimberly C. Doell; Joseph B. Bak-Coleman; Boryana Todorova; +196 AuthorsMadalina Vlasceanu; Kimberly C. Doell; Joseph B. Bak-Coleman; Boryana Todorova; Michael M. Berkebile-Weinberg; Samantha J. Grayson; Yash Patel; Danielle Goldwert; Yifei Pei; Alek Chakroff; Ekaterina Pronizius; Karlijn L. van den Broek; Denisa Vlasceanu; Sara Constantino; Michael J. Morais; Philipp Schumann; Steve Rathje; Ke Fang; Salvatore Maria Aglioti; Mark Alfano; Andy J. Alvarado-Yepez; Angélica Andersen; Frederik Anseel; Matthew A. J. Apps; Chillar Asadli; Fonda Jane Awuor; Flavio Azevedo; Piero Basaglia; Jocelyn J. Bélanger; Sebastian Berger; Paul Bertin; Michał Białek; Olga Bialobrzeska; Michelle Blaya-Burgo; Daniëlle N. M. Bleize; Simen Bø; Lea Boecker; Paulo S. Boggio; Sylvie Borau; Björn Bos; Ayoub Bouguettaya; Markus Brauer; Cameron Brick; Tymofii Brik; Roman Briker; Tobias Brosch; Ondrej Buchel; Daniel Buonauro; Radhika Butalia; Héctor Carvacho; Sarah A. E. Chamberlain; Hang-Yee Chan; Dawn Chow; Dongil Chung; Luca Cian; Noa Cohen-Eick; Luis Sebastian Contreras-Huerta; Davide Contu; Vladimir Cristea; Jo Cutler; Silvana D'Ottone; Jonas De Keersmaecker; Sarah Delcourt; Sylvain Delouvée; Kathi Diel; Benjamin D. Douglas; Moritz A. Drupp; Shreya Dubey; Jānis Ekmanis; Christian T. Elbaek; Mahmoud Elsherif; Iris M. Engelhard; Yannik A. Escher; Tom W. Etienne; Laura Farage; Ana Rita Farias; Stefan Feuerriegel; Andrej Findor; Lucia Freira; Malte Friese; Neil Philip Gains; Albina Gallyamova; Sandra J. Geiger; Oliver Genschow; Biljana Gjoneska; Theofilos Gkinopoulos; Beth Goldberg; Amit Goldenberg; Sarah Gradidge; Simone Grassini; Kurt Gray; Sonja Grelle; Siobhán M. Griffin; Lusine Grigoryan; Ani Grigoryan; Dmitry Grigoryev; June Gruber; Johnrev Guilaran; Britt Hadar; Ulf J.J. Hahnel; Eran Halperin; Annelie J. Harvey; Christian A. P. Haugestad; Aleksandra M. Herman; Hal E. Hershfield; Toshiyuki Himichi; Donald W. Hine; Wilhelm Hofmann; Lauren Howe; Enma T. Huaman-Chulluncuy; Guanxiong Huang; Tatsunori Ishii; Ayahito Ito; Fanli Jia; John T. Jost; Veljko Jovanović; Dominika Jurgiel; Ondřej Kácha; Reeta Kankaanpää; Jaroslaw Kantorowicz; Elena Kantorowicz-Reznichenko; Keren Kaplan Mintz; Ilker Kaya; Ozgur Kaya; Narine Khachatryan; Anna Klas; Colin Klein; Christian A. Klöckner; Lina Koppel; Alexandra I. Kosachenko; Emily J. Kothe; Ruth Krebs; Amy R. Krosch; Andre P.M. Krouwel; Yara Kyrychenko; Maria Lagomarsino; Claus Lamm; Florian Lange; Julia Lee Cunningham; Jeffrey Lees; Tak Yan Leung; Neil Levy; Patricia L. Lockwood; Chiara Longoni; Alberto López Ortega; David D. Loschelder; Jackson G. Lu; Yu Luo; Joseph Luomba; Annika E. Lutz; Johann M. Majer; Ezra Markowitz; Abigail A. Marsh; Karen Louise Mascarenhas; Bwambale Mbilingi; Winfred Mbungu; Cillian McHugh; Marijn H.C. Meijers; Hugo Mercier; Fenant Laurent Mhagama; Katerina Michalakis; Nace Mikus; Sarah Milliron; Panagiotis Mitkidis; Fredy S. Monge-Rodríguez; Youri L. Mora; David Moreau; Kosuke Motoki; Manuel Moyano; Mathilde Mus; Joaquin Navajas; Tam Luong Nguyen; Dung Minh Nguyen; Trieu Nguyen; Laura Niemi; Sari R. R. Nijssen; Gustav Nilsonne; Jonas P. Nitschke; Laila Nockur; Ritah Okura; Sezin Öner; Asil Ali Özdoğru; Helena Palumbo; Costas Panagopoulos; Maria Serena Panasiti; Philip Pärnamets; Mariola Paruzel-Czachura; Yuri G. Pavlov; César Payán-Gómez; Adam R. Pearson; Leonor Pereira da Costa; Hannes M. Petrowsky; Stefan Pfattheicher; Nhat Tan Pham; Vladimir Ponizovskiy; Clara Pretus; Gabriel G. Rêgo; Ritsaart Reimann; Shawn A. Rhoads; Julian Riano-Moreno;doi: 10.1126/sciadv.adj5778 , 10.17615/j71a-aj22 , 10.48350/192662 , 10.26181/27048496.v1 , 10.26181/27048496
pmid: 38324680
pmc: PMC10849597
doi: 10.1126/sciadv.adj5778 , 10.17615/j71a-aj22 , 10.48350/192662 , 10.26181/27048496.v1 , 10.26181/27048496
pmid: 38324680
pmc: PMC10849597
Effectively reducing climate change requires marked, global behavior change. However, it is unclear which strategies are most likely to motivate people to change their climate beliefs and behaviors. Here, we tested 11 expert-crowdsourced interventions on four climate mitigation outcomes: beliefs, policy support, information sharing intention, and an effortful tree-planting behavioral task. Across 59,440 participants from 63 countries, the interventions’ effectiveness was small, largely limited to nonclimate skeptics, and differed across outcomes: Beliefs were strengthened mostly by decreasing psychological distance (by 2.3%), policy support by writing a letter to a future-generation member (2.6%), information sharing by negative emotion induction (12.1%), and no intervention increased the more effortful behavior—several interventions even reduced tree planting. Last, the effects of each intervention differed depending on people’s initial climate beliefs. These findings suggest that the impact of behavioral climate interventions varies across audiences and target behaviors.
All Research productsarrow_drop_down <script type="text/javascript"> <!-- document.write('<div id="oa_widget"></div>'); document.write('<script type="text/javascript" src="https://beta.openaire.eu/index.php?option=com_openaire&view=widget&format=raw&projectId=10.1126/sciadv.adj5778&type=result"></script>'); --> </script>For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eu36 citations 36 popularity Average influence Top 10% impulse Top 1% Powered by BIP!more_vert All Research productsarrow_drop_down <script type="text/javascript"> <!-- document.write('<div id="oa_widget"></div>'); document.write('<script type="text/javascript" src="https://beta.openaire.eu/index.php?option=com_openaire&view=widget&format=raw&projectId=10.1126/sciadv.adj5778&type=result"></script>'); --> </script>For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eu
description Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article , Journal 2015Publisher:SAGE Publications Authors: Lisa Zaval; Ezra M. Markowitz; Elke U. Weber;pmid: 25560825
Long time horizons and social distance are viewed as key psychological barriers to proenvironmental action, particularly regarding climate change. We suggest that these challenges can be turned into opportunities by making salient long-term goals and motives, thus shifting preferences between the present self and future others. We tested whether individuals’ motivation to leave a positive legacy can be leveraged to increase engagement with climate change and other environmental problems. In a pilot study, we found that individual differences in legacy motivation were positively associated with proenvironmental behaviors and intentions. In a subsequent experiment, we demonstrated that priming legacy motives increased donations to an environmental charity, proenvironmental intentions, and climate-change beliefs. Domain-general legacy motives represent a previously understudied and powerful mechanism for promoting proenvironmental behavior.
Psychological Scienc... arrow_drop_down All Research productsarrow_drop_down <script type="text/javascript"> <!-- document.write('<div id="oa_widget"></div>'); document.write('<script type="text/javascript" src="https://beta.openaire.eu/index.php?option=com_openaire&view=widget&format=raw&projectId=10.1177/0956797614561266&type=result"></script>'); --> </script>For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.euAccess Routesbronze 141 citations 141 popularity Top 1% influence Top 10% impulse Top 10% Powered by BIP!more_vert Psychological Scienc... arrow_drop_down All Research productsarrow_drop_down <script type="text/javascript"> <!-- document.write('<div id="oa_widget"></div>'); document.write('<script type="text/javascript" src="https://beta.openaire.eu/index.php?option=com_openaire&view=widget&format=raw&projectId=10.1177/0956797614561266&type=result"></script>'); --> </script>For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eudescription Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article , Other literature type 2024Publisher:American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Authors: Madalina Vlasceanu; Kimberly C. Doell; Joseph B. Bak-Coleman; Boryana Todorova; +196 AuthorsMadalina Vlasceanu; Kimberly C. Doell; Joseph B. Bak-Coleman; Boryana Todorova; Michael M. Berkebile-Weinberg; Samantha J. Grayson; Yash Patel; Danielle Goldwert; Yifei Pei; Alek Chakroff; Ekaterina Pronizius; Karlijn L. van den Broek; Denisa Vlasceanu; Sara Constantino; Michael J. Morais; Philipp Schumann; Steve Rathje; Ke Fang; Salvatore Maria Aglioti; Mark Alfano; Andy J. Alvarado-Yepez; Angélica Andersen; Frederik Anseel; Matthew A. J. Apps; Chillar Asadli; Fonda Jane Awuor; Flavio Azevedo; Piero Basaglia; Jocelyn J. Bélanger; Sebastian Berger; Paul Bertin; Michał Białek; Olga Bialobrzeska; Michelle Blaya-Burgo; Daniëlle N. M. Bleize; Simen Bø; Lea Boecker; Paulo S. Boggio; Sylvie Borau; Björn Bos; Ayoub Bouguettaya; Markus Brauer; Cameron Brick; Tymofii Brik; Roman Briker; Tobias Brosch; Ondrej Buchel; Daniel Buonauro; Radhika Butalia; Héctor Carvacho; Sarah A. E. Chamberlain; Hang-Yee Chan; Dawn Chow; Dongil Chung; Luca Cian; Noa Cohen-Eick; Luis Sebastian Contreras-Huerta; Davide Contu; Vladimir Cristea; Jo Cutler; Silvana D'Ottone; Jonas De Keersmaecker; Sarah Delcourt; Sylvain Delouvée; Kathi Diel; Benjamin D. Douglas; Moritz A. Drupp; Shreya Dubey; Jānis Ekmanis; Christian T. Elbaek; Mahmoud Elsherif; Iris M. Engelhard; Yannik A. Escher; Tom W. Etienne; Laura Farage; Ana Rita Farias; Stefan Feuerriegel; Andrej Findor; Lucia Freira; Malte Friese; Neil Philip Gains; Albina Gallyamova; Sandra J. Geiger; Oliver Genschow; Biljana Gjoneska; Theofilos Gkinopoulos; Beth Goldberg; Amit Goldenberg; Sarah Gradidge; Simone Grassini; Kurt Gray; Sonja Grelle; Siobhán M. Griffin; Lusine Grigoryan; Ani Grigoryan; Dmitry Grigoryev; June Gruber; Johnrev Guilaran; Britt Hadar; Ulf J.J. Hahnel; Eran Halperin; Annelie J. Harvey; Christian A. P. Haugestad; Aleksandra M. Herman; Hal E. Hershfield; Toshiyuki Himichi; Donald W. Hine; Wilhelm Hofmann; Lauren Howe; Enma T. Huaman-Chulluncuy; Guanxiong Huang; Tatsunori Ishii; Ayahito Ito; Fanli Jia; John T. Jost; Veljko Jovanović; Dominika Jurgiel; Ondřej Kácha; Reeta Kankaanpää; Jaroslaw Kantorowicz; Elena Kantorowicz-Reznichenko; Keren Kaplan Mintz; Ilker Kaya; Ozgur Kaya; Narine Khachatryan; Anna Klas; Colin Klein; Christian A. Klöckner; Lina Koppel; Alexandra I. Kosachenko; Emily J. Kothe; Ruth Krebs; Amy R. Krosch; Andre P.M. Krouwel; Yara Kyrychenko; Maria Lagomarsino; Claus Lamm; Florian Lange; Julia Lee Cunningham; Jeffrey Lees; Tak Yan Leung; Neil Levy; Patricia L. Lockwood; Chiara Longoni; Alberto López Ortega; David D. Loschelder; Jackson G. Lu; Yu Luo; Joseph Luomba; Annika E. Lutz; Johann M. Majer; Ezra Markowitz; Abigail A. Marsh; Karen Louise Mascarenhas; Bwambale Mbilingi; Winfred Mbungu; Cillian McHugh; Marijn H.C. Meijers; Hugo Mercier; Fenant Laurent Mhagama; Katerina Michalakis; Nace Mikus; Sarah Milliron; Panagiotis Mitkidis; Fredy S. Monge-Rodríguez; Youri L. Mora; David Moreau; Kosuke Motoki; Manuel Moyano; Mathilde Mus; Joaquin Navajas; Tam Luong Nguyen; Dung Minh Nguyen; Trieu Nguyen; Laura Niemi; Sari R. R. Nijssen; Gustav Nilsonne; Jonas P. Nitschke; Laila Nockur; Ritah Okura; Sezin Öner; Asil Ali Özdoğru; Helena Palumbo; Costas Panagopoulos; Maria Serena Panasiti; Philip Pärnamets; Mariola Paruzel-Czachura; Yuri G. Pavlov; César Payán-Gómez; Adam R. Pearson; Leonor Pereira da Costa; Hannes M. Petrowsky; Stefan Pfattheicher; Nhat Tan Pham; Vladimir Ponizovskiy; Clara Pretus; Gabriel G. Rêgo; Ritsaart Reimann; Shawn A. Rhoads; Julian Riano-Moreno;doi: 10.1126/sciadv.adj5778 , 10.17615/j71a-aj22 , 10.48350/192662 , 10.26181/27048496.v1 , 10.26181/27048496
pmid: 38324680
pmc: PMC10849597
doi: 10.1126/sciadv.adj5778 , 10.17615/j71a-aj22 , 10.48350/192662 , 10.26181/27048496.v1 , 10.26181/27048496
pmid: 38324680
pmc: PMC10849597
Effectively reducing climate change requires marked, global behavior change. However, it is unclear which strategies are most likely to motivate people to change their climate beliefs and behaviors. Here, we tested 11 expert-crowdsourced interventions on four climate mitigation outcomes: beliefs, policy support, information sharing intention, and an effortful tree-planting behavioral task. Across 59,440 participants from 63 countries, the interventions’ effectiveness was small, largely limited to nonclimate skeptics, and differed across outcomes: Beliefs were strengthened mostly by decreasing psychological distance (by 2.3%), policy support by writing a letter to a future-generation member (2.6%), information sharing by negative emotion induction (12.1%), and no intervention increased the more effortful behavior—several interventions even reduced tree planting. Last, the effects of each intervention differed depending on people’s initial climate beliefs. These findings suggest that the impact of behavioral climate interventions varies across audiences and target behaviors.
All Research productsarrow_drop_down <script type="text/javascript"> <!-- document.write('<div id="oa_widget"></div>'); document.write('<script type="text/javascript" src="https://beta.openaire.eu/index.php?option=com_openaire&view=widget&format=raw&projectId=10.1126/sciadv.adj5778&type=result"></script>'); --> </script>For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eu36 citations 36 popularity Average influence Top 10% impulse Top 1% Powered by BIP!more_vert All Research productsarrow_drop_down <script type="text/javascript"> <!-- document.write('<div id="oa_widget"></div>'); document.write('<script type="text/javascript" src="https://beta.openaire.eu/index.php?option=com_openaire&view=widget&format=raw&projectId=10.1126/sciadv.adj5778&type=result"></script>'); --> </script>For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eu