Perspective-taking with affected others to promote climate change mitigation.
climate change
empathy
experiment
perspective-taking
pro-environmental behavior
Journal
Frontiers in psychology
ISSN: 1664-1078
Titre abrégé: Front Psychol
Pays: Switzerland
ID NLM: 101550902
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
2023
2023
Historique:
received:
18
05
2023
accepted:
31
08
2023
medline:
16
10
2023
pubmed:
16
10
2023
entrez:
16
10
2023
Statut:
epublish
Résumé
Prior evidence suggests that perspective-taking may promote pro-environmental behavior, at least for low-cost behaviors or local environmental problems. Climate change, however, requires costly mitigation efforts and is a global problem. Thus, in this study, we examine whether perspective-taking in the context of climate change is effective in promoting mitigation behaviors, including actual and/or costly behaviors, the mechanisms through which perspective-taking works, and if the distance to the person adversely affected by climate change matters for the effect. We conducted an online experiment with a non-student sample from Germany (
Identifiants
pubmed: 37842719
doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1225165
pmc: PMC10575756
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Pagination
1225165Informations de copyright
Copyright © 2023 Koessler, Heinz and Engel.
Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.
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