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Climate Change: What Psychology Can Offer in Terms of Insights and Solutions
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Can psychological science offer evidence-based solutions to climate change? Using insights and principles derived from the literature on social dilemmas and human cooperation, we discuss evidence in support of three solutions: crossing the borders of thought, time, and space. First, borders of thought could be crossed by using persuasion that is concrete and tailored to local circumstances and by highlighting information about people’s efforts as evidence against the myth of self-interest. Second, borders of time could be crossed by using kinship cues, which can help make the future less distant, and relatively uninvolved advisors, who may help make the future salient. And third, borders of space could be crossed by showing group representatives how they might benefit from a frame of altruistic competition—focusing on the benefits of being seen as moral and global in orientation. Our overall conclusion is that psychological science can offer evidence-based solutions to climate change.
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“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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“Van Lange et al. use a psychology lens to discuss climate change behaviour on a societal level, suggesting that the inability of society-wide eco-friendly movements to produce broad change is due to time, distance, uncertainty, and a tendency towards individual self-interest and the competitive mindsets of leaders [44].”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Van Lange, P. A. M., Joireman, J., & Milinski, M.
- Affiliations
- Department of Experimental and Applied Psychology, Institute for Brain and Behavior Amsterdam, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
- Washington State University (US)
- Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology (DE)
- Venue
- Current Directions in Psychological Science
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2018-07-12
- Volume
- 27
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 269-274
- ISSN
- 0963-7214 (ISSN-L)
- 1467-8721
- PMC
- PMC6099976
- OpenAlex
- W2883869975
- Cited by
- 166
- References
- 40
- Citations by year
- 2026: 8 · 2025: 4 · 2024: 16 · 2023: 14 · 2022: 9 · 2021: 52 · 2020: 58 · 2019: 4 · 2018: 1
- FWCI
- 65.41
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
- doi.org
- Locations
- Current Directions in Psychological Science (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- VU Research Portal (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc)
- MPG.PuRe (Max Planck Society) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc)
- Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc)
- 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
- climate change, social dilemmas, human cooperation, persuasion, self-interest, time perception, group representatives, moral identity, global orientation, evidence-based solutions
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