Oriane Sarrasin
Biographic Data
| ID | 222158 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Oriane Sarrasin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Oriane |
| FAMILY NAME | Sarrasin |
| SIGNATURE | SARRASIN O |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Lausanne |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8102-6215 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 318 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Addressing climate change with behavioral science: A global intervention tournament in 63 countries
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 interve…
Rethinking climate change vulnerabilities after Covid‐19: Recommendations for social science‐based interventions drawn from research on Conspiracy Theories and Diversity Science
Accounts of interpersonal touch in female victims of intimate partner violence: A qualitative study
Crucial for human development and functioning, affectionate touch predicts well-being. However, most research on affectionate touch in romantic relationship is conducted with samples in high quality relationships and relies on quantitative methods. We thus know little to nothing about how touch is experienced in low-quality relationships, namely those characterized by intimate partner violence (IPV). To fill this gap, victims of physical and/or s…
Designing role-play simulations for climate change decision-making: A step-by-step approach to facilitate cooperation between science and policy
Literature has demonstrated the benefits of role-play simulations (RPS) for decision-making and social learning in the field of climate change and environmental policy. Despite growing interest, step-by-step guidelines are still rare when it comes to the practical design and implementation of RPS, which hinders the adoption and implementation of this promising approach. This article aims to facilitate the development of RPS by proposing a step-by…
The climate change research that makes the front page: Is it fit to engage societal action
By growing awareness for and interest in climate change, media coverage enlarges the window of opportunity by which research can engage individuals and collectives in climate actions. However, we question whether the climate change research that gets mediatized is fit for this challenge. From a survey of the 51,230 scientific articles published in 2020 on climate change, we show that the news media preferentially publicizes research outputs found…
Policies and prejudice: Integration policies moderate the link between immigrant presence and anti-immigrant prejudice
More people than ever migrate across the world, thereby more people than ever live, study, and work in countries, regions, and institutions with high immigrant presence. Conflict and threat theories have argued that increasing immigration inevitably heightens native citizens' anti-immigrant prejudice. Drawing on alternate strands of social psychological literature such as contact theory, the present study challenges this argument. We highlight th…
Genre et islamophobie: Discriminations, préjugés et représentations en Europe
Premier ouvrage proposant une étude des aspects genrés de l’islamophobie en France, en Suisse et en Belgique, ce livre réunit des contributions issues de la sociologie et de la psychologie sociale. Il analyse les processus par lesquels discriminations et préjugés anti-musulman.es sont élaborés et relayés, aussi bien par des acteur.rices institutionnel.les que par les citoyen.nes, et les façons dont celles et ceux qu’ils visent y résistent. Le gen…
Growing Up as a European? Parental Socialization and the Educational Divide in Euroskepticism
Research consistently shows that individuals with higher levels of education express lower levels of Euroskepticism. This relationship has been explained by values and skills acquired in education and by higher labor‐market competitiveness. While these explanations assume a causal impact of education, previous research uses cross‐sectional data. This is problematic, as students self‐select into education. The contribution of this article is twofo…
When integration policies shape the impact of intergroup contact on threat perceptions: A multilevel study across 20 European countries
There is ample evidence of the beneficial effects of intergroup contact in reducing negative attitudes towards immigrants.Although the valuable role of institutional support, one of the initial optimal conditions for contact, has been demonstrated, the impact of actual immigration integration policies, as a \nmanifestation of institutional support, remains unknown. In the current study, we examine how country-level migrant integration policies, a…
Feeling Blue by Extension: Intrafamily Transmission and Economic Pressures Explain the Native-Immigrant Gap in Well-Being among Youth in Switzerland
Several factors explain the native-immigrant gap in well-being frequently found among adolescents and young adults. First, discrimination and integration challenges impact the psychological health of immigrants of all ages. Though rarely studied, low parental well-being is transmitted thereby also deteriorating youth well-being. Second, individuals with an immigrant background generally endure economic pressures to a greater extent than natives, …
Consensual Versus Heterogeneous Conceptions of Nationhood: The Role of Citizenship Regimes and Integration Policies Across 21 European Countries
From ethnic group boundary demarcation to deprovincialization: The interplay of immigrant presence and ideological climate
Intergroup contact (i.e. personal encounters with and presence of immigrants) has frequently been related to improved immigration attitudes among the national majority. The impact of ideological climates, in turn, has received scant attention. Drawing on the notion of deprovincialization, we argue that, in proximal geographical contexts, contact with immigrants as well as progressive (vs conservative) ideological climates engender a reappraisal o…
Inclusive Normative Climates Strengthen the Relationship Between Identification With Europe and Tolerant Immigration Attitudes: Evidence From 22 Countries
Europe as a supranational entity is frequently associated to inclusive and cosmopolitan values, which explains why identification with Europe generally relates to tolerant attitudes toward immigrants. However, because of major immigration movements, Europe has recently gone through demographic and social changes that have challenged its values and identity. In this context, we argue that, because national immigrant integration policies convey soc…
From Stigmatized Immigrants to Radical Right Voting: A Multilevel Study on the Role of Threat and Contact
This study examines the interplay between presence of stigmatized immigrants, threat, and intergroup contact that underlies radical right voting (voting propensity and actual district‐level vote results). On the one hand, low‐status immigrants are often stigmatized and depicted as threats. Thus, presence of stigmatized immigrants should heighten threat perceptions, thereby increasing radical right voting. On the other hand, as positive contact wi…
Who Is to Blame? Official Discourse and Ethnic Diversity Attitudes During the 2011 Riots in England
In 2011, the killing of a Black man by a police officer triggered violent riots across England. In a context where ethnic minorities are rarely openly blamed, we examined the lens through which the events were interpreted in the official discourses of the British Prime Minister. A thematic content analysis (Study 1) revealed that, without explicitly blaming ethnic minorities, the discourses built on antagonistic normative references opposing a vi…
Immigration: Social Psychological Aspects
Educated Preferences or Selection Effects? A Longitudinal Analysis of the Impact of Educational Attainment on Attitudes Towards Immigrants
While previous studies unequivocally show that education and attitudes towards immigrants correlate, the underlying mechanisms remain debated. The liberalization effect claims that education fosters egalitarian values and analytic skills, which translate into positive attitudes. Additionally, the higher educated are less likely to face economic competition from immigrants. However, research on socialization shows that political attitudes develop …
Does Survey Respondents’ Immigrant Background Affect the Measurement and Prediction of Immigration Attitudes? An Illustration in Two Steps
Over the past few decades, Western societies have become highly diverse, with an increasing share of the population having foreign roots. Just like the native population, defined here as national citizens with national ancestry and no foreign roots (up to the third generation), individuals with an immigrant background have opinions on newcomers to the country. Yet, most research on attitudes toward immigration using large-scale survey data routin…
Understanding transnational political involvement among Senegalese migrants: The role of acculturation preferences and perceived discrimination
Gender Traits and Cognitive Appraisal in Young Adults: The Mediating Role of Locus of Control
Measurement Equivalence Across Subnational Groups: An Analysis of the Conception of Nationhood in Switzerland
Because of their higher status, members of national majorities (e.g., linguistic, ethnic, or religious) are likely to develop a stronger sense of ownership of the nation than members of national minorities (Sidanius, Feshbach, Levin, & Pratto, 1997), which is reflected in a stronger attachment to the nation as a whole (e.g., Staerklé, Sidanius, Green, & Molina, 2010). Accordingly, members of national majorities are expected to hold a stricter con…
Gender Representation in Different Languages and Grammatical Marking on Pronouns: When Beauticians, Musicians, and Mechanics Remain Men
Gygax, Gabriel, Sarrasin, Oakhill, and Garnham (2008) showed that readers form a mental representation of gender that is based on grammatical gender in French and German (i.e., masculine supposedly interpretable as a generic form) but is based on stereotypical information in English. In this study, a modification of their stimulus material was used to examine the additional potential influence of pronouns. Across the three languages, pronouns dif…
Opposition to Antiracism Laws Across Swiss Municipalities: A Multilevel Analysis
Public opposition to antiracism laws—an expression of prejudice toward immigrants—is widespread in Switzerland as well as in other European countries. Using data from the European Social Survey 2002 (N = 1,711), the present study examined across Swiss municipalities individual and contextual predictors of opposition to such laws and of two well‐established antecedents of prejudice: perceived threat and intergroup contact. The study extends multil…
Nationalism and patriotism as predictors of immigration attitudes in Switzerland: A municipality‐level analysis
Using Swiss data from the 2003 International Social Survey Programme (N = 902), this multilevel study combined individual and municipality levels of analysis in the explanation of nationalism, patriotism and exclusionary immigration attitudes. On the individual level, the results show that in line with previous research nationalism (uncritical and blind attachment to the nation) increased exclusionary immigration attitudes, while patriotism (prid…
Generically intended, but specifically interpreted: When beauticians, musicians, and mechanics are all men
The influence of stereotype and grammatical information (masculine intended as generic) on the representation of gender in language was investigated using a sentence evaluation paradigm. The first sentence introduced a role name (e.g., The spies came out ...) and the second sentence contained explicit information about the gender of one or more of the characters (e.g., ...one of the women ...). The experiment was conducted in French, German, and …
Educated Preferences or Selection Effects? A Longitudinal Analysis of the Impact of Educational Attainment on Attitudes Towards Immigrants
While previous studies unequivocally show that education and attitudes towards immigrants correlate, the underlying mechanisms remain debated. The liberalization effect claims that education fosters egalitarian values and analytic skills, which translate into positive attitudes. Additionally, the higher educated are less likely to face economic competition from immigrants. However, research on socialization shows that political attitudes develop …
When integration policies shape the impact of intergroup contact on threat perceptions: A multilevel study across 20 European countries
There is ample evidence of the beneficial effects of intergroup contact in reducing negative attitudes towards immigrants.Although the valuable role of institutional support, one of the initial optimal conditions for contact, has been demonstrated, the impact of actual immigration integration policies, as a \nmanifestation of institutional support, remains unknown. In the current study, we examine how country-level migrant integration policies, a…
From Stigmatized Immigrants to Radical Right Voting: A Multilevel Study on the Role of Threat and Contact
This study examines the interplay between presence of stigmatized immigrants, threat, and intergroup contact that underlies radical right voting (voting propensity and actual district‐level vote results). On the one hand, low‐status immigrants are often stigmatized and depicted as threats. Thus, presence of stigmatized immigrants should heighten threat perceptions, thereby increasing radical right voting. On the other hand, as positive contact wi…
Opposition to Antiracism Laws Across Swiss Municipalities: A Multilevel Analysis
Public opposition to antiracism laws—an expression of prejudice toward immigrants—is widespread in Switzerland as well as in other European countries. Using data from the European Social Survey 2002 (N = 1,711), the present study examined across Swiss municipalities individual and contextual predictors of opposition to such laws and of two well‐established antecedents of prejudice: perceived threat and intergroup contact. The study extends multil…
Growing Up as a European? Parental Socialization and the Educational Divide in Euroskepticism
Research consistently shows that individuals with higher levels of education express lower levels of Euroskepticism. This relationship has been explained by values and skills acquired in education and by higher labor‐market competitiveness. While these explanations assume a causal impact of education, previous research uses cross‐sectional data. This is problematic, as students self‐select into education. The contribution of this article is twofo…
Nationalism and patriotism as predictors of immigration attitudes in Switzerland: A municipality‐level analysis
Using Swiss data from the 2003 International Social Survey Programme (N = 902), this multilevel study combined individual and municipality levels of analysis in the explanation of nationalism, patriotism and exclusionary immigration attitudes. On the individual level, the results show that in line with previous research nationalism (uncritical and blind attachment to the nation) increased exclusionary immigration attitudes, while patriotism (prid…
From ethnic group boundary demarcation to deprovincialization: The interplay of immigrant presence and ideological climate
Intergroup contact (i.e. personal encounters with and presence of immigrants) has frequently been related to improved immigration attitudes among the national majority. The impact of ideological climates, in turn, has received scant attention. Drawing on the notion of deprovincialization, we argue that, in proximal geographical contexts, contact with immigrants as well as progressive (vs conservative) ideological climates engender a reappraisal o…
Inclusive Normative Climates Strengthen the Relationship Between Identification With Europe and Tolerant Immigration Attitudes: Evidence From 22 Countries
Europe as a supranational entity is frequently associated to inclusive and cosmopolitan values, which explains why identification with Europe generally relates to tolerant attitudes toward immigrants. However, because of major immigration movements, Europe has recently gone through demographic and social changes that have challenged its values and identity. In this context, we argue that, because national immigrant integration policies convey soc…
Policies and prejudice: Integration policies moderate the link between immigrant presence and anti-immigrant prejudice
More people than ever migrate across the world, thereby more people than ever live, study, and work in countries, regions, and institutions with high immigrant presence. Conflict and threat theories have argued that increasing immigration inevitably heightens native citizens' anti-immigrant prejudice. Drawing on alternate strands of social psychological literature such as contact theory, the present study challenges this argument. We highlight th…
Does Survey Respondents’ Immigrant Background Affect the Measurement and Prediction of Immigration Attitudes? An Illustration in Two Steps
Over the past few decades, Western societies have become highly diverse, with an increasing share of the population having foreign roots. Just like the native population, defined here as national citizens with national ancestry and no foreign roots (up to the third generation), individuals with an immigrant background have opinions on newcomers to the country. Yet, most research on attitudes toward immigration using large-scale survey data routin…
Measurement Equivalence Across Subnational Groups: An Analysis of the Conception of Nationhood in Switzerland
Because of their higher status, members of national majorities (e.g., linguistic, ethnic, or religious) are likely to develop a stronger sense of ownership of the nation than members of national minorities (Sidanius, Feshbach, Levin, & Pratto, 1997), which is reflected in a stronger attachment to the nation as a whole (e.g., Staerklé, Sidanius, Green, & Molina, 2010). Accordingly, members of national majorities are expected to hold a stricter con…
Consensual Versus Heterogeneous Conceptions of Nationhood: The Role of Citizenship Regimes and Integration Policies Across 21 European Countries
Gender Representation in Different Languages and Grammatical Marking on Pronouns: When Beauticians, Musicians, and Mechanics Remain Men
Gygax, Gabriel, Sarrasin, Oakhill, and Garnham (2008) showed that readers form a mental representation of gender that is based on grammatical gender in French and German (i.e., masculine supposedly interpretable as a generic form) but is based on stereotypical information in English. In this study, a modification of their stimulus material was used to examine the additional potential influence of pronouns. Across the three languages, pronouns dif…
Understanding transnational political involvement among Senegalese migrants: The role of acculturation preferences and perceived discrimination
The climate change research that makes the front page: Is it fit to engage societal action
By growing awareness for and interest in climate change, media coverage enlarges the window of opportunity by which research can engage individuals and collectives in climate actions. However, we question whether the climate change research that gets mediatized is fit for this challenge. From a survey of the 51,230 scientific articles published in 2020 on climate change, we show that the news media preferentially publicizes research outputs found…
Who Is to Blame? Official Discourse and Ethnic Diversity Attitudes During the 2011 Riots in England
In 2011, the killing of a Black man by a police officer triggered violent riots across England. In a context where ethnic minorities are rarely openly blamed, we examined the lens through which the events were interpreted in the official discourses of the British Prime Minister. A thematic content analysis (Study 1) revealed that, without explicitly blaming ethnic minorities, the discourses built on antagonistic normative references opposing a vi…
Accounts of interpersonal touch in female victims of intimate partner violence: A qualitative study
Crucial for human development and functioning, affectionate touch predicts well-being. However, most research on affectionate touch in romantic relationship is conducted with samples in high quality relationships and relies on quantitative methods. We thus know little to nothing about how touch is experienced in low-quality relationships, namely those characterized by intimate partner violence (IPV). To fill this gap, victims of physical and/or s…
Designing role-play simulations for climate change decision-making: A step-by-step approach to facilitate cooperation between science and policy
Literature has demonstrated the benefits of role-play simulations (RPS) for decision-making and social learning in the field of climate change and environmental policy. Despite growing interest, step-by-step guidelines are still rare when it comes to the practical design and implementation of RPS, which hinders the adoption and implementation of this promising approach. This article aims to facilitate the development of RPS by proposing a step-by…
Feeling Blue by Extension: Intrafamily Transmission and Economic Pressures Explain the Native-Immigrant Gap in Well-Being among Youth in Switzerland
Several factors explain the native-immigrant gap in well-being frequently found among adolescents and young adults. First, discrimination and integration challenges impact the psychological health of immigrants of all ages. Though rarely studied, low parental well-being is transmitted thereby also deteriorating youth well-being. Second, individuals with an immigrant background generally endure economic pressures to a greater extent than natives, …
Gender Traits and Cognitive Appraisal in Young Adults: The Mediating Role of Locus of Control
Generically intended, but specifically interpreted: When beauticians, musicians, and mechanics are all men
The influence of stereotype and grammatical information (masculine intended as generic) on the representation of gender in language was investigated using a sentence evaluation paradigm. The first sentence introduced a role name (e.g., The spies came out ...) and the second sentence contained explicit information about the gender of one or more of the characters (e.g., ...one of the women ...). The experiment was conducted in French, German, and …
Nationalism and patriotism as predictors of immigration attitudes in Switzerland: A municipality‐level analysis
Using Swiss data from the 2003 International Social Survey Programme (N = 902), this multilevel study combined individual and municipality levels of analysis in the explanation of nationalism, patriotism and exclusionary immigration attitudes. On the individual level, the results show that in line with previous research nationalism (uncritical and blind attachment to the nation) increased exclusionary immigration attitudes, while patriotism (prid…
Measurement Equivalence Across Subnational Groups: An Analysis of the Conception of Nationhood in Switzerland
Because of their higher status, members of national majorities (e.g., linguistic, ethnic, or religious) are likely to develop a stronger sense of ownership of the nation than members of national minorities (Sidanius, Feshbach, Levin, & Pratto, 1997), which is reflected in a stronger attachment to the nation as a whole (e.g., Staerklé, Sidanius, Green, & Molina, 2010). Accordingly, members of national majorities are expected to hold a stricter con…
Gender Representation in Different Languages and Grammatical Marking on Pronouns: When Beauticians, Musicians, and Mechanics Remain Men
Gygax, Gabriel, Sarrasin, Oakhill, and Garnham (2008) showed that readers form a mental representation of gender that is based on grammatical gender in French and German (i.e., masculine supposedly interpretable as a generic form) but is based on stereotypical information in English. In this study, a modification of their stimulus material was used to examine the additional potential influence of pronouns. Across the three languages, pronouns dif…
Opposition to Antiracism Laws Across Swiss Municipalities: A Multilevel Analysis
Public opposition to antiracism laws—an expression of prejudice toward immigrants—is widespread in Switzerland as well as in other European countries. Using data from the European Social Survey 2002 (N = 1,711), the present study examined across Swiss municipalities individual and contextual predictors of opposition to such laws and of two well‐established antecedents of prejudice: perceived threat and intergroup contact. The study extends multil…
Gender Traits and Cognitive Appraisal in Young Adults: The Mediating Role of Locus of Control
Does Survey Respondents’ Immigrant Background Affect the Measurement and Prediction of Immigration Attitudes? An Illustration in Two Steps
Over the past few decades, Western societies have become highly diverse, with an increasing share of the population having foreign roots. Just like the native population, defined here as national citizens with national ancestry and no foreign roots (up to the third generation), individuals with an immigrant background have opinions on newcomers to the country. Yet, most research on attitudes toward immigration using large-scale survey data routin…
Understanding transnational political involvement among Senegalese migrants: The role of acculturation preferences and perceived discrimination
Immigration: Social Psychological Aspects
Educated Preferences or Selection Effects? A Longitudinal Analysis of the Impact of Educational Attainment on Attitudes Towards Immigrants
While previous studies unequivocally show that education and attitudes towards immigrants correlate, the underlying mechanisms remain debated. The liberalization effect claims that education fosters egalitarian values and analytic skills, which translate into positive attitudes. Additionally, the higher educated are less likely to face economic competition from immigrants. However, research on socialization shows that political attitudes develop …
From Stigmatized Immigrants to Radical Right Voting: A Multilevel Study on the Role of Threat and Contact
This study examines the interplay between presence of stigmatized immigrants, threat, and intergroup contact that underlies radical right voting (voting propensity and actual district‐level vote results). On the one hand, low‐status immigrants are often stigmatized and depicted as threats. Thus, presence of stigmatized immigrants should heighten threat perceptions, thereby increasing radical right voting. On the other hand, as positive contact wi…
Who Is to Blame? Official Discourse and Ethnic Diversity Attitudes During the 2011 Riots in England
In 2011, the killing of a Black man by a police officer triggered violent riots across England. In a context where ethnic minorities are rarely openly blamed, we examined the lens through which the events were interpreted in the official discourses of the British Prime Minister. A thematic content analysis (Study 1) revealed that, without explicitly blaming ethnic minorities, the discourses built on antagonistic normative references opposing a vi…
From ethnic group boundary demarcation to deprovincialization: The interplay of immigrant presence and ideological climate
Intergroup contact (i.e. personal encounters with and presence of immigrants) has frequently been related to improved immigration attitudes among the national majority. The impact of ideological climates, in turn, has received scant attention. Drawing on the notion of deprovincialization, we argue that, in proximal geographical contexts, contact with immigrants as well as progressive (vs conservative) ideological climates engender a reappraisal o…
Inclusive Normative Climates Strengthen the Relationship Between Identification With Europe and Tolerant Immigration Attitudes: Evidence From 22 Countries
Europe as a supranational entity is frequently associated to inclusive and cosmopolitan values, which explains why identification with Europe generally relates to tolerant attitudes toward immigrants. However, because of major immigration movements, Europe has recently gone through demographic and social changes that have challenged its values and identity. In this context, we argue that, because national immigrant integration policies convey soc…
Feeling Blue by Extension: Intrafamily Transmission and Economic Pressures Explain the Native-Immigrant Gap in Well-Being among Youth in Switzerland
Several factors explain the native-immigrant gap in well-being frequently found among adolescents and young adults. First, discrimination and integration challenges impact the psychological health of immigrants of all ages. Though rarely studied, low parental well-being is transmitted thereby also deteriorating youth well-being. Second, individuals with an immigrant background generally endure economic pressures to a greater extent than natives, …
Consensual Versus Heterogeneous Conceptions of Nationhood: The Role of Citizenship Regimes and Integration Policies Across 21 European Countries
When integration policies shape the impact of intergroup contact on threat perceptions: A multilevel study across 20 European countries
There is ample evidence of the beneficial effects of intergroup contact in reducing negative attitudes towards immigrants.Although the valuable role of institutional support, one of the initial optimal conditions for contact, has been demonstrated, the impact of actual immigration integration policies, as a \nmanifestation of institutional support, remains unknown. In the current study, we examine how country-level migrant integration policies, a…
Genre et islamophobie: Discriminations, préjugés et représentations en Europe
Premier ouvrage proposant une étude des aspects genrés de l’islamophobie en France, en Suisse et en Belgique, ce livre réunit des contributions issues de la sociologie et de la psychologie sociale. Il analyse les processus par lesquels discriminations et préjugés anti-musulman.es sont élaborés et relayés, aussi bien par des acteur.rices institutionnel.les que par les citoyen.nes, et les façons dont celles et ceux qu’ils visent y résistent. Le gen…
Growing Up as a European? Parental Socialization and the Educational Divide in Euroskepticism
Research consistently shows that individuals with higher levels of education express lower levels of Euroskepticism. This relationship has been explained by values and skills acquired in education and by higher labor‐market competitiveness. While these explanations assume a causal impact of education, previous research uses cross‐sectional data. This is problematic, as students self‐select into education. The contribution of this article is twofo…
Policies and prejudice: Integration policies moderate the link between immigrant presence and anti-immigrant prejudice
More people than ever migrate across the world, thereby more people than ever live, study, and work in countries, regions, and institutions with high immigrant presence. Conflict and threat theories have argued that increasing immigration inevitably heightens native citizens' anti-immigrant prejudice. Drawing on alternate strands of social psychological literature such as contact theory, the present study challenges this argument. We highlight th…
Designing role-play simulations for climate change decision-making: A step-by-step approach to facilitate cooperation between science and policy
Literature has demonstrated the benefits of role-play simulations (RPS) for decision-making and social learning in the field of climate change and environmental policy. Despite growing interest, step-by-step guidelines are still rare when it comes to the practical design and implementation of RPS, which hinders the adoption and implementation of this promising approach. This article aims to facilitate the development of RPS by proposing a step-by…
The climate change research that makes the front page: Is it fit to engage societal action
By growing awareness for and interest in climate change, media coverage enlarges the window of opportunity by which research can engage individuals and collectives in climate actions. However, we question whether the climate change research that gets mediatized is fit for this challenge. From a survey of the 51,230 scientific articles published in 2020 on climate change, we show that the news media preferentially publicizes research outputs found…
Addressing climate change with behavioral science: A global intervention tournament in 63 countries
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 interve…
Rethinking climate change vulnerabilities after Covid‐19: Recommendations for social science‐based interventions drawn from research on Conspiracy Theories and Diversity Science
Accounts of interpersonal touch in female victims of intimate partner violence: A qualitative study
Crucial for human development and functioning, affectionate touch predicts well-being. However, most research on affectionate touch in romantic relationship is conducted with samples in high quality relationships and relies on quantitative methods. We thus know little to nothing about how touch is experienced in low-quality relationships, namely those characterized by intimate partner violence (IPV). To fill this gap, victims of physical and/or s…
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