Motivation and climate change: A review
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This paper reviews motivations people experience about climate change and integrates recent findings into the BUCkET model of core social goals. We argue that environmentalism is not the main cause of thoughts or behaviors about climate change. Rather, the evolved social needs for Belongingness, Understanding, Control, self-Enhancement, and Trust are more practical intervention targets than the attempt to create environmentalist beliefs or identities. We used database searches to identify the key research areas on motivation and climate change and synthesized articles into the BUCkET model. This reveals some limiting assumptions of previous approaches and suggests the effectiveness of targeting existing motives rather than fostering new values or worldviews.
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Brick et al. state that a person's desire for self-enhancement may be used as a motivational drive for environmentalist belief and behaviour, and informing individuals of the co-benefits of an eco-friendly identity may improve the likelihood of eco-friendly behaviour.
“Brick et al. state that a person's desire for self-enhancement may be used as a motivational drive for environmentalist belief and behaviour.Informing individuals of the co-benefits of an eco-friendly identity, such as a sense of development and benevolence, may improve the likelihood of eco-friendly behaviour [49].”
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Experimental — accuracy not yet measuredGroup polarisation and perceiving the beliefs of close friends and family members may be a large factor in whether information is ignored, depreciated, or embraced.
“Group polarisation and perceiving the beliefs of close friends and family members may be a large factor in whether information is ignored, depreciated, or embraced [48][49][50].”
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The Self-Enhancing section says identity-threatening environmental information may be ignored or denigrated and that motivated reasoning can produce attitude polarization. The Belonging and Understanding sections describe the influence of social norms and perceived consensus on beliefs. The paper does not specifically identify the perceived beliefs of close friends and family as a factor in whether information is ignored, denigrated, or embraced. (LLM, conf=0.84)
Experimental — accuracy not yet measuredMotivation may be cultivated by increasing a sense of individual and collective efficacy through climate action, fostering a sense of altruism, and emphasising the positive effects of climate change mitigation.
“The literature suggests that motivation may be cultivated by increasing a sense of individual and collective efficacy through climate action [46,49,50,53], fostering a sense of altruism [44], and emphasising the positive effects of climate change mitigation [50].”
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- Authors
- Brick, C., Bosshard, A., & Whitmarsh, L.
- Affiliations
- University of Amsterdam (NL)
- University of Bath (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Brick, Cameron
- Venue
- Current Opinion in Psychology
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2021-12
- Volume
- 42
- Pages
- 82-88
- ISSN
- 2352-250X (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W3160324164
- Cited by
- 76
- References
- 98
- Citations by year
- 2026: 11 · 2025: 15 · 2024: 21 · 2023: 12 · 2022: 15 · 2021: 2
- FWCI
- 2.40
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Current Opinion in Psychology (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Pure (University of Bath) (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- UvA-DARE (University of Amsterdam) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- Funders
- Economic and Social Research Council (ES/S012257/1)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Climate Change Communication and Perception
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law › Environmental Education and Sustainability
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Social and Intergroup Psychology
- Keywords
- bucket model, environmentalism, sense of belonging, self-enhancement, trust, control, understanding, climate change interventions
- MeSH terms
- Environmentalism, Humans, Motivation, Climate Change
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