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Psychological distance: How to make climate change less abstract and closer to the self
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Scientists have been warning the world of the threatening consequences of climate change for decades. Yet, only a few countries have made climate change mitigation a priority. One of the chief issues regarding climate change is its abstractness: consequences for the collective in the long-term are much more abstract than consequences for the self in the here-and-now. To combat climate change, individuals, communities, and governments must work together to reduce the psychological distance of climate change and designate the future of the planet as the prime concern.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Van Lange, P. A. M., & Huckelba, A. L.
- Affiliations
- Umeå University (SE)
- Venue
- Current Opinion in Psychology
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2021-12
- Volume
- 42
- Pages
- 49-53
- ISSN
- 2352-250X (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W3146600820
- Cited by
- 140
- References
- 39
- Citations by year
- 2026: 32 · 2025: 24 · 2024: 34 · 2023: 31 · 2022: 13 · 2021: 6
- FWCI
- 4.03
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Current Opinion in Psychology (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- VU Research Portal (publishedVersion, other-oa)
- KTH Publication Database DiVA (KTH Royal Institute of Technology) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- Funders
- VU Amsterdam
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Climate Change Communication and Perception
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law › Pro-Environmental Behavior and Attitudes
- Social Sciences › Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Economics and Econometrics › Climate Change Policy and Economics
- Keywords
- psychological distance, climate change, abstractness, self-relevance, climate change mitigation, long-term effects, climate change communication
- MeSH terms
- Forecasting, Humans, Psychological Distance, Climate Change
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