Vlasceanu, M, Doell, KC, Bak-Coleman, JB, Todorova, B, Berkebile-Weinberg, MM, Grayson, SJ, Patel, Y, Goldwert, D, Pei, Y, Chakroff, A, Pronizius, E, Broek, KLVD, Vlasceanu, D, Constantino, S, Morais, MJ, Schumann, P, Rathje, S, Fang, K, Aglioti, SM, Alfano, M, Alvarado-Yepez, AJ, Andersen, A, Anseel, F, Apps, MAJ, Asadli, C, Awuor, FJ, Azevedo, F, Basaglia, P, Bélanger, JJ, Berger, S, Bertin, P, Białek, M, Bialobrzeska, O, Blaya-Burgo, M, Bleize, DNM, Bø, S
, Boecker, L, Boggio, PS, Borau, S, Bos, B, Bouguettaya, A, Brauer, M, Brick, C, Brik, T, Briker, R, Brosch, T, Buchel, O, Buonauro, D, Butalia, R, Carvacho, H, Chamberlain, SAE, Chan, H-Y, Chow, D, Chung, D, Cian, L, Cohen-Eick, N, Contreras-Huerta, LS, Contu, D, Cristea, V, Cutler, J, D'Ottone, S, Keersmaecker, JD, Delcourt, S, Delouvée, S, Diel, K, Douglas, BD, Drupp, MA, Dubey, S, Ekmanis, J, Elbaek, CT, Elsherif, M, Engelhard, IM
, Escher, YA, Etienne, TW, Farage, L, Farias, AR, Feuerriegel, S, Findor, A, Freira, L, Friese, M, Gains, NP, Gallyamova, A, Geiger, SJ
, Genschow, O, Gjoneska, B, Gkinopoulos, T, Goldberg, B, Goldenberg, A, Gradidge, S, Grassini, S, Gray, K, Grelle, S, Griffin, SM, Grigoryan, L, Grigoryan, A, Grigoryev, D, Gruber, J, Guilaran, J, Hadar, B, Hahnel, UJJ, Halperin, E, Harvey, AJ, Haugestad, CAP, Herman, AM, Hershfield, HE, Himichi, T, Hine, DW, Hofmann, W, Howe, L, Huaman-Chulluncuy, ET, Huang, G, Ishii, T, Ito, A, Jia, F, Jost, JT, Jovanović, V, Jurgiel, D, Kácha, O, Kankaanpää, R, Kantorowicz, J, Kantorowicz-Reznichenko, E, Mintz, KK, Kaya, I, Kaya, O, Khachatryan, N, Klas, A, Klein, C, Klöckner, CA, Koppel, L, Kosachenko, AI, Kothe, EJ, Krebs, R, Krosch, AR, Krouwel, APM, Kyrychenko, Y, Lagomarsino, M, Lamm, C, Lange, F, Cunningham, JL, Lees, J, Leung, TY, Levy, N, Lockwood, PL, Longoni, C, Ortega, AL
, Loschelder, DD, Lu, JG, Luo, Y, Luomba, J, Lutz, AE, Majer, JM, Markowitz, E, Marsh, AA, Mascarenhas, KL, Mbilingi, B, Mbungu, W, McHugh, C, Meijers, MHC, Mercier, H, Mhagama, FL, Michalakis, K, Mikus, N, Milliron, S, Mitkidis, P, Monge-Rodríguez, FS, Mora, YL, Moreau, D, Motoki, K, Moyano, M, Mus, M, Navajas, J, Nguyen, TL, Nguyen, DM, Nguyen, T, Niemi, L, Nijssen, SRR, Nilsonne, G, Nitschke, JP, Nockur, L, Okura, R, Öner, S, Özdoğru, AA, Palumbo, H, Panagopoulos, C, Panasiti, MS, Pärnamets, P, Paruzel-Czachura, M, Pavlov, YG, Payán-Gómez, C, Pearson, AR, Costa, LPD
, Petrowsky, HM, Pfattheicher, S, Pham, NT, Ponizovskiy, V, Pretus, C, Rêgo, GG, Reimann, R, Rhoads, SA, Riano-Moreno, J, Richter, I, Röer, JP, Rosa-Sullivan, J, Ross, RM, Sabherwal, A, Saito, T, Sarrasin, O, Say, N, Schmid, K, Schmitt, MT, Schoenegger, P, Scholz, C, Schug, MG, Schulreich, S, Shreedhar, G, Shuman, E, Sivan, S, Sjåstad, H
, Soliman, M, Soud, K, Spampatti, T, Sparkman, G, Spasovski, O, Stanley, SK, Stern, JA, Strahm, N, Suko, Y, Sul, S, Syropoulos, S, Taylor, NC, Tedaldi, E, Tinghög, G, Huynh, LDT, Travaglino, GA, Tsakiris, M, Tüter, İ, Tyrala, M, Uluğ, ÖM, Urbanek, A, Valko, D, Linden, SVD, Schie, KV, Stekelenburg, AV, Vanags, E, Västfjäll, D, Vesely, S, Vintr, J, Vranka, M, Wanguche, PO, Willer, R, Wojcik, AD, Xu, R, Yadav, A, Zawisza, M, Zhao, X, Zhao, J, Żuk, D & Bavel, JJV 2024, '
Addressing climate change with behavioral science: A global intervention tournament in 63 countries',
Science Advances, vol. 10, no. 6, eadj5778.
https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adj5778@article{259a06f4f9cb4286a09611a297d3c351,
title = "Addressing climate change with behavioral science: A global intervention tournament in 63 countries",
abstract = "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.",
keywords = "Psychology",
author = "Madalina Vlasceanu and Doell, {Kimberly C.} and Bak-Coleman, {Joseph B.} and Boryana Todorova and Berkebile-Weinberg, {Michael M.} and Grayson, {Samantha J.} and Yash Patel and Danielle Goldwert and Yifei Pei and Alek Chakroff and Ekaterina Pronizius and Broek, {Karlijn L. van den} and Denisa Vlasceanu and Sara Constantino and Morais, {Michael J.} and Philipp Schumann and Steve Rathje and Ke Fang and Aglioti, {Salvatore Maria} and Mark Alfano and Alvarado-Yepez, {Andy J.} and Ang{\'e}lica Andersen and Frederik Anseel and Apps, {Matthew A. J.} and Chillar Asadli and Awuor, {Fonda Jane} and Flavio Azevedo and Piero Basaglia and B{\'e}langer, {Jocelyn J.} and Sebastian Berger and Paul Bertin and Micha{\l} Bia{\l}ek and Olga Bialobrzeska and Michelle Blaya-Burgo and Bleize, {Dani{\"e}lle N. M.} and Simen B{\o} and Lea Boecker and Boggio, {Paulo S.} and Sylvie Borau and Bj{\"o}rn Bos and Ayoub Bouguettaya and Markus Brauer and Cameron Brick and Tymofii Brik and Roman Briker and Tobias Brosch and Ondrej Buchel and Daniel Buonauro and Radhika Butalia and H{\'e}ctor Carvacho and Chamberlain, {Sarah A. E.} and Hang-Yee Chan and Dawn Chow and Dongil Chung and Luca Cian and Noa Cohen-Eick and Contreras-Huerta, {Luis Sebastian} and Davide Contu and Vladimir Cristea and Jo Cutler and Silvana D'Ottone and Keersmaecker, {Jonas De} and Sarah Delcourt and Sylvain Delouv{\'e}e and Kathi Diel and Douglas, {Benjamin D.} and Drupp, {Moritz A.} and Shreya Dubey and Jānis Ekmanis and Elbaek, {Christian T.} and Mahmoud Elsherif and Engelhard, {Iris M.} and Escher, {Yannik A.} and Etienne, {Tom W.} and Laura Farage and Farias, {Ana Rita} and Stefan Feuerriegel and Andrej Findor and Lucia Freira and Malte Friese and Gains, {Neil Philip} and Albina Gallyamova and Geiger, {Sandra J.} and Oliver Genschow and Biljana Gjoneska and Theofilos Gkinopoulos and Beth Goldberg and Amit Goldenberg and Sarah Gradidge and Simone Grassini and Kurt Gray and Sonja Grelle and Griffin, {Siobh{\'a}n M.} and Lusine Grigoryan and Ani Grigoryan and Dmitry Grigoryev and June Gruber and Johnrev Guilaran and Britt Hadar and Hahnel, {Ulf J.J.} and Eran Halperin and Harvey, {Annelie J.} and Haugestad, {Christian A. P.} and Herman, {Aleksandra M.} and Hershfield, {Hal E.} and Toshiyuki Himichi and Hine, {Donald W.} and Wilhelm Hofmann and Lauren Howe and Huaman-Chulluncuy, {Enma T.} and Guanxiong Huang and Tatsunori Ishii and Ayahito Ito and Fanli Jia and Jost, {John T.} and Veljko Jovanovi{\'c} and Dominika Jurgiel and Ond{\v r}ej K{\'a}cha and Reeta Kankaanp{\"a}{\"a} and Jaroslaw Kantorowicz and Elena Kantorowicz-Reznichenko and Mintz, {Keren Kaplan} and Ilker Kaya and Ozgur Kaya and Narine Khachatryan and Anna Klas and Colin Klein and Kl{\"o}ckner, {Christian A.} and Lina Koppel and Kosachenko, {Alexandra I.} and Kothe, {Emily J.} and Ruth Krebs and Krosch, {Amy R.} and Krouwel, {Andre P.M.} and Yara Kyrychenko and Maria Lagomarsino and Claus Lamm and Florian Lange and Cunningham, {Julia Lee} and Jeffrey Lees and Leung, {Tak Yan} and Neil Levy and Lockwood, {Patricia L.} and Chiara Longoni and Ortega, {Alberto L{\'o}pez} and Loschelder, {David D.} and Lu, {Jackson G.} and Yu Luo and Joseph Luomba and Lutz, {Annika E.} and Majer, {Johann M.} and Ezra Markowitz and Marsh, {Abigail A.} and Mascarenhas, {Karen Louise} and Bwambale Mbilingi and Winfred Mbungu and Cillian McHugh and Meijers, {Marijn H.C.} and Hugo Mercier and Mhagama, {Fenant Laurent} and Katerina Michalakis and Nace Mikus and Sarah Milliron and Panagiotis Mitkidis and Monge-Rodr{\'i}guez, {Fredy S.} and Mora, {Youri L.} and David Moreau and Kosuke Motoki and Manuel Moyano and Mathilde Mus and Joaquin Navajas and Nguyen, {Tam Luong} and Nguyen, {Dung Minh} and Trieu Nguyen and Laura Niemi and Nijssen, {Sari R. R.} and Gustav Nilsonne and Nitschke, {Jonas P.} and Laila Nockur and Ritah Okura and Sezin {\"O}ner and {\"O}zdoğru, {Asil Ali} and Helena Palumbo and Costas Panagopoulos and Panasiti, {Maria Serena} and Philip P{\"a}rnamets and Mariola Paruzel-Czachura and Pavlov, {Yuri G.} and C{\'e}sar Pay{\'a}n-G{\'o}mez and Pearson, {Adam R.} and Costa, {Leonor Pereira da} and Petrowsky, {Hannes M.} and Stefan Pfattheicher and Pham, {Nhat Tan} and Vladimir Ponizovskiy and Clara Pretus and R{\^e}go, {Gabriel G.} and Ritsaart Reimann and Rhoads, {Shawn A.} and Julian Riano-Moreno and Isabell Richter and R{\"o}er, {Jan Philipp} and Jahred Rosa-Sullivan and Ross, {Robert M.} and Anandita Sabherwal and Toshiki Saito and Oriane Sarrasin and Nicolas Say and Katharina Schmid and Schmitt, {Michael T.} and Philipp Schoenegger and Christin Scholz and Schug, {Mariah G.} and Stefan Schulreich and Ganga Shreedhar and Eric Shuman and Smadar Sivan and Hallgeir Sj{\aa}stad and Meikel Soliman and Katia Soud and Tobia Spampatti and Gregg Sparkman and Ognen Spasovski and Stanley, {Samantha K.} and Stern, {Jessica A.} and Noel Strahm and Yasushi Suko and Sunhae Sul and Stylianos Syropoulos and Taylor, {Neil C.} and Elisa Tedaldi and Gustav Tingh{\"o}g and Huynh, {Luu Duc Toan} and Travaglino, {Giovanni Antonio} and Manos Tsakiris and İlayda T{\"u}ter and Michael Tyrala and Uluğ, {{\"O}zden Melis} and Arkadiusz Urbanek and Danila Valko and Linden, {Sander van der} and Schie, {Kevin van} and Stekelenburg, {Aart van} and Edmunds Vanags and Daniel V{\"a}stfj{\"a}ll and Stepan Vesely and J{\'a}chym Vintr and Marek Vranka and Wanguche, {Patrick Otuo} and Robb Willer and Wojcik, {Adrian Dominik} and Rachel Xu and Anjali Yadav and Magdalena Zawisza and Xian Zhao and Jiaying Zhao and Dawid {\.Z}uk and Bavel, {Jay J. Van}",
note = "Funding Information: Funding: this work was supported by Google Jigsaw grant (to M.Vl., K.c.d., and J.J.V.B.), Swiss national Science Foundation P400PS_190997 (to K.c.d.), dutch Research council grant 7934 (to K.l.v.d.B.), european Union grant no. id 776608 (to K.l.v.d.B.), John templeton Foundation grant 61378 (to M.A.), the national council for Scientific and technological development grant (to A.A.), christ church college Research centre grant (to M.A.J.A.), david Phillips Fellowship grant BB/R010668/2 (to M.A.J.A.), Jacobs Foundation Fellowship (to M.A.J.A.), dFG grant project no. 390683824 (to M.A.d., P.Ba., and B.B.), nYUAd research funds (to J.J.B.), the Swiss Federal Office of energy through the energy, economy, and Society program grant number: Si/502093-01 (to S.Be.), the Belgian national Fund for Scientific Research (FRS-FnRS) PdR 0253.19 (to P.Be.), Fund for scientific development at the Faculty of Psychology at SWPS University in Warsaw (to O.Bi.), Radboud University Behavioral Science institute (to d.n.M.B.), Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2024 American Association for the Advancement of Science. All rights reserved.",
year = "2024",
month = feb,
day = "9",
doi = "10.1126/sciadv.adj5778",
language = "English",
volume = "10",
journal = "Science Advances",
issn = "2375-2548",
publisher = "American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)",
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}
TY - JOUR
T1 - Addressing climate change with behavioral science: A global intervention tournament in 63 countries
AU - Vlasceanu, Madalina
AU - Doell, Kimberly C.
AU - Bak-Coleman, Joseph B.
AU - Todorova, Boryana
AU - Berkebile-Weinberg, Michael M.
AU - Grayson, Samantha J.
AU - Patel, Yash
AU - Goldwert, Danielle
AU - Pei, Yifei
AU - Chakroff, Alek
AU - Pronizius, Ekaterina
AU - Broek, Karlijn L. van den
AU - Vlasceanu, Denisa
AU - Constantino, Sara
AU - Morais, Michael J.
AU - Schumann, Philipp
AU - Rathje, Steve
AU - Fang, Ke
AU - Aglioti, Salvatore Maria
AU - Alfano, Mark
AU - Alvarado-Yepez, Andy J.
AU - Andersen, Angélica
AU - Anseel, Frederik
AU - Apps, Matthew A. J.
AU - Asadli, Chillar
AU - Awuor, Fonda Jane
AU - Azevedo, Flavio
AU - Basaglia, Piero
AU - Bélanger, Jocelyn J.
AU - Berger, Sebastian
AU - Bertin, Paul
AU - Białek, Michał
AU - Bialobrzeska, Olga
AU - Blaya-Burgo, Michelle
AU - Bleize, Daniëlle N. M.
AU - Bø, Simen
AU - Boecker, Lea
AU - Boggio, Paulo S.
AU - Borau, Sylvie
AU - Bos, Björn
AU - Bouguettaya, Ayoub
AU - Brauer, Markus
AU - Brick, Cameron
AU - Brik, Tymofii
AU - Briker, Roman
AU - Brosch, Tobias
AU - Buchel, Ondrej
AU - Buonauro, Daniel
AU - Butalia, Radhika
AU - Carvacho, Héctor
AU - Chamberlain, Sarah A. E.
AU - Chan, Hang-Yee
AU - Chow, Dawn
AU - Chung, Dongil
AU - Cian, Luca
AU - Cohen-Eick, Noa
AU - Contreras-Huerta, Luis Sebastian
AU - Contu, Davide
AU - Cristea, Vladimir
AU - Cutler, Jo
AU - D'Ottone, Silvana
AU - Keersmaecker, Jonas De
AU - Delcourt, Sarah
AU - Delouvée, Sylvain
AU - Diel, Kathi
AU - Douglas, Benjamin D.
AU - Drupp, Moritz A.
AU - Dubey, Shreya
AU - Ekmanis, Jānis
AU - Elbaek, Christian T.
AU - Elsherif, Mahmoud
AU - Engelhard, Iris M.
AU - Escher, Yannik A.
AU - Etienne, Tom W.
AU - Farage, Laura
AU - Farias, Ana Rita
AU - Feuerriegel, Stefan
AU - Findor, Andrej
AU - Freira, Lucia
AU - Friese, Malte
AU - Gains, Neil Philip
AU - Gallyamova, Albina
AU - Geiger, Sandra J.
AU - Genschow, Oliver
AU - Gjoneska, Biljana
AU - Gkinopoulos, Theofilos
AU - Goldberg, Beth
AU - Goldenberg, Amit
AU - Gradidge, Sarah
AU - Grassini, Simone
AU - Gray, Kurt
AU - Grelle, Sonja
AU - Griffin, Siobhán M.
AU - Grigoryan, Lusine
AU - Grigoryan, Ani
AU - Grigoryev, Dmitry
AU - Gruber, June
AU - Guilaran, Johnrev
AU - Hadar, Britt
AU - Hahnel, Ulf J.J.
AU - Halperin, Eran
AU - Harvey, Annelie J.
AU - Haugestad, Christian A. P.
AU - Herman, Aleksandra M.
AU - Hershfield, Hal E.
AU - Himichi, Toshiyuki
AU - Hine, Donald W.
AU - Hofmann, Wilhelm
AU - Howe, Lauren
AU - Huaman-Chulluncuy, Enma T.
AU - Huang, Guanxiong
AU - Ishii, Tatsunori
AU - Ito, Ayahito
AU - Jia, Fanli
AU - Jost, John T.
AU - Jovanović, Veljko
AU - Jurgiel, Dominika
AU - Kácha, Ondřej
AU - Kankaanpää, Reeta
AU - Kantorowicz, Jaroslaw
AU - Kantorowicz-Reznichenko, Elena
AU - Mintz, Keren Kaplan
AU - Kaya, Ilker
AU - Kaya, Ozgur
AU - Khachatryan, Narine
AU - Klas, Anna
AU - Klein, Colin
AU - Klöckner, Christian A.
AU - Koppel, Lina
AU - Kosachenko, Alexandra I.
AU - Kothe, Emily J.
AU - Krebs, Ruth
AU - Krosch, Amy R.
AU - Krouwel, Andre P.M.
AU - Kyrychenko, Yara
AU - Lagomarsino, Maria
AU - Lamm, Claus
AU - Lange, Florian
AU - Cunningham, Julia Lee
AU - Lees, Jeffrey
AU - Leung, Tak Yan
AU - Levy, Neil
AU - Lockwood, Patricia L.
AU - Longoni, Chiara
AU - Ortega, Alberto López
AU - Loschelder, David D.
AU - Lu, Jackson G.
AU - Luo, Yu
AU - Luomba, Joseph
AU - Lutz, Annika E.
AU - Majer, Johann M.
AU - Markowitz, Ezra
AU - Marsh, Abigail A.
AU - Mascarenhas, Karen Louise
AU - Mbilingi, Bwambale
AU - Mbungu, Winfred
AU - McHugh, Cillian
AU - Meijers, Marijn H.C.
AU - Mercier, Hugo
AU - Mhagama, Fenant Laurent
AU - Michalakis, Katerina
AU - Mikus, Nace
AU - Milliron, Sarah
AU - Mitkidis, Panagiotis
AU - Monge-Rodríguez, Fredy S.
AU - Mora, Youri L.
AU - Moreau, David
AU - Motoki, Kosuke
AU - Moyano, Manuel
AU - Mus, Mathilde
AU - Navajas, Joaquin
AU - Nguyen, Tam Luong
AU - Nguyen, Dung Minh
AU - Nguyen, Trieu
AU - Niemi, Laura
AU - Nijssen, Sari R. R.
AU - Nilsonne, Gustav
AU - Nitschke, Jonas P.
AU - Nockur, Laila
AU - Okura, Ritah
AU - Öner, Sezin
AU - Özdoğru, Asil Ali
AU - Palumbo, Helena
AU - Panagopoulos, Costas
AU - Panasiti, Maria Serena
AU - Pärnamets, Philip
AU - Paruzel-Czachura, Mariola
AU - Pavlov, Yuri G.
AU - Payán-Gómez, César
AU - Pearson, Adam R.
AU - Costa, Leonor Pereira da
AU - Petrowsky, Hannes M.
AU - Pfattheicher, Stefan
AU - Pham, Nhat Tan
AU - Ponizovskiy, Vladimir
AU - Pretus, Clara
AU - Rêgo, Gabriel G.
AU - Reimann, Ritsaart
AU - Rhoads, Shawn A.
AU - Riano-Moreno, Julian
AU - Richter, Isabell
AU - Röer, Jan Philipp
AU - Rosa-Sullivan, Jahred
AU - Ross, Robert M.
AU - Sabherwal, Anandita
AU - Saito, Toshiki
AU - Sarrasin, Oriane
AU - Say, Nicolas
AU - Schmid, Katharina
AU - Schmitt, Michael T.
AU - Schoenegger, Philipp
AU - Scholz, Christin
AU - Schug, Mariah G.
AU - Schulreich, Stefan
AU - Shreedhar, Ganga
AU - Shuman, Eric
AU - Sivan, Smadar
AU - Sjåstad, Hallgeir
AU - Soliman, Meikel
AU - Soud, Katia
AU - Spampatti, Tobia
AU - Sparkman, Gregg
AU - Spasovski, Ognen
AU - Stanley, Samantha K.
AU - Stern, Jessica A.
AU - Strahm, Noel
AU - Suko, Yasushi
AU - Sul, Sunhae
AU - Syropoulos, Stylianos
AU - Taylor, Neil C.
AU - Tedaldi, Elisa
AU - Tinghög, Gustav
AU - Huynh, Luu Duc Toan
AU - Travaglino, Giovanni Antonio
AU - Tsakiris, Manos
AU - Tüter, İlayda
AU - Tyrala, Michael
AU - Uluğ, Özden Melis
AU - Urbanek, Arkadiusz
AU - Valko, Danila
AU - Linden, Sander van der
AU - Schie, Kevin van
AU - Stekelenburg, Aart van
AU - Vanags, Edmunds
AU - Västfjäll, Daniel
AU - Vesely, Stepan
AU - Vintr, Jáchym
AU - Vranka, Marek
AU - Wanguche, Patrick Otuo
AU - Willer, Robb
AU - Wojcik, Adrian Dominik
AU - Xu, Rachel
AU - Yadav, Anjali
AU - Zawisza, Magdalena
AU - Zhao, Xian
AU - Zhao, Jiaying
AU - Żuk, Dawid
AU - Bavel, Jay J. Van
N1 - Funding Information:
Funding: this work was supported by Google Jigsaw grant (to M.Vl., K.c.d., and J.J.V.B.), Swiss national Science Foundation P400PS_190997 (to K.c.d.), dutch Research council grant 7934 (to K.l.v.d.B.), european Union grant no. id 776608 (to K.l.v.d.B.), John templeton Foundation grant 61378 (to M.A.), the national council for Scientific and technological development grant (to A.A.), christ church college Research centre grant (to M.A.J.A.), david Phillips Fellowship grant BB/R010668/2 (to M.A.J.A.), Jacobs Foundation Fellowship (to M.A.J.A.), dFG grant project no. 390683824 (to M.A.d., P.Ba., and B.B.), nYUAd research funds (to J.J.B.), the Swiss Federal Office of energy through the energy, economy, and Society program grant number: Si/502093-01 (to S.Be.), the Belgian national Fund for Scientific Research (FRS-FnRS) PdR 0253.19 (to P.Be.), Fund for scientific development at the Faculty of Psychology at SWPS University in Warsaw (to O.Bi.), Radboud University Behavioral Science institute (to d.n.M.B.),
Publisher Copyright:
© 2024 American Association for the Advancement of Science. All rights reserved.
PY - 2024/2/9
Y1 - 2024/2/9
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Psychology
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U2 - 10.1126/sciadv.adj5778
DO - 10.1126/sciadv.adj5778
M3 - Journal articles
C2 - 38324680
VL - 10
JO - Science Advances
JF - Science Advances
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