Michael P Vandenbergh
Biographic Data
| ID | 4115042 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael P Vandenbergh |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael P |
| FAMILY NAME | Vandenbergh |
| SIGNATURE | VANDENBERGH M P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Vanderbilt University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1629-7086 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 117 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Liberals are less willing to buy Teslas than other electric vehicles, moderated by perceptions of Elon Musk
Adopting electric vehicles (EVs) can substantially reduce households’ greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. In August 2023, we surveyed 633 U.S. adults about their intentions to adopt 30 GHG-reducing actions. Purchasing EVs was the most polarizing, with positive intentions among liberals and negative intentions among conservatives. Meanwhile Elon Musk, chief executive officer of EV manufacturer Tesla, has adopted a conservative public persona. We teste…
Social Psychological Perspectives on Political Polarization
Political polarization is a barrier to enacting policy solutions to global issues. Social psychology has a rich history of studying polarization, and there is an important opportunity to define and refine its contributions to the present political realities. We do so in the context of one of the most pressing modern issues: climate change. We synthesize the literature on political polarization and its applications to climate change, and we propos…
Supply, demand and polarization challenges facing US climate policies
The perceived feasibility of behavior change is positively associated with support for domain-matched climate policies
The science of mitigation
Convincing conservatives
Improving Climate Change Mitigation Analysis
Framing of Geoengineering Affects Support for Climate Change Mitigation
The growing recognition that climate change mitigation alone will be inadequate has led scientists and policymakers to discuss climate geoengineering. An experiment with a US sample found, contrary to previous research, that reading about geoengineering did not reduce conservatives’ skepticism about the existence of anthropogenic climate change. Moreover, depending on how it is framed, geoengineering can reduce support for mitigation among both c…
A framework for assessing the impact of private climate governance
Examining Procedural Justice and Legitimacy in Corporate Offending and Beyond‐Compliance Behavior
Tom Tyler's Procedural Justice Theory has received support in a variety of studies using criminal justice authorities as the research focus. To date, the theory has not been empirically tested using corporate malfeasance as an outcome, despite evidence that procedural justice is important in achieving regulatory compliance. This study uses factorial survey methods to examine whether corporate behavior is predicted by professionals' perceptions of…
Predicting consumer demand responses to carbon labels
Positive and negative spillover of pro-environmental behavior
Household actions can provide a behavioral wedge to rapidly reduce US carbon emissions
Most climate change policy attention has been addressed to long-term options, such as inducing new, low-carbon energy technologies and creating cap-and-trade regimes for emissions. We use a behavioral approach to examine the reasonably achievable potential for near-term reductions by altered adoption and use of available technologies in US homes and nonbusiness travel. We estimate the plasticity of 17 household action types in 5 behaviorally dist…
A comparison of carbon calculators
Positive and negative spillover of pro-environmental behavior
A framework for assessing the impact of private climate governance
Examining Procedural Justice and Legitimacy in Corporate Offending and Beyond‐Compliance Behavior
Tom Tyler's Procedural Justice Theory has received support in a variety of studies using criminal justice authorities as the research focus. To date, the theory has not been empirically tested using corporate malfeasance as an outcome, despite evidence that procedural justice is important in achieving regulatory compliance. This study uses factorial survey methods to examine whether corporate behavior is predicted by professionals' perceptions of…
A comparison of carbon calculators
Convincing conservatives
The science of mitigation
A comparison of carbon calculators
Household actions can provide a behavioral wedge to rapidly reduce US carbon emissions
Most climate change policy attention has been addressed to long-term options, such as inducing new, low-carbon energy technologies and creating cap-and-trade regimes for emissions. We use a behavioral approach to examine the reasonably achievable potential for near-term reductions by altered adoption and use of available technologies in US homes and nonbusiness travel. We estimate the plasticity of 17 household action types in 5 behaviorally dist…
Positive and negative spillover of pro-environmental behavior
Predicting consumer demand responses to carbon labels
Examining Procedural Justice and Legitimacy in Corporate Offending and Beyond‐Compliance Behavior
Tom Tyler's Procedural Justice Theory has received support in a variety of studies using criminal justice authorities as the research focus. To date, the theory has not been empirically tested using corporate malfeasance as an outcome, despite evidence that procedural justice is important in achieving regulatory compliance. This study uses factorial survey methods to examine whether corporate behavior is predicted by professionals' perceptions of…
Framing of Geoengineering Affects Support for Climate Change Mitigation
The growing recognition that climate change mitigation alone will be inadequate has led scientists and policymakers to discuss climate geoengineering. An experiment with a US sample found, contrary to previous research, that reading about geoengineering did not reduce conservatives’ skepticism about the existence of anthropogenic climate change. Moreover, depending on how it is framed, geoengineering can reduce support for mitigation among both c…
A framework for assessing the impact of private climate governance
Improving Climate Change Mitigation Analysis
Convincing conservatives
The science of mitigation
The perceived feasibility of behavior change is positively associated with support for domain-matched climate policies
Supply, demand and polarization challenges facing US climate policies
Liberals are less willing to buy Teslas than other electric vehicles, moderated by perceptions of Elon Musk
Adopting electric vehicles (EVs) can substantially reduce households’ greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. In August 2023, we surveyed 633 U.S. adults about their intentions to adopt 30 GHG-reducing actions. Purchasing EVs was the most polarizing, with positive intentions among liberals and negative intentions among conservatives. Meanwhile Elon Musk, chief executive officer of EV manufacturer Tesla, has adopted a conservative public persona. We teste…
Social Psychological Perspectives on Political Polarization
Political polarization is a barrier to enacting policy solutions to global issues. Social psychology has a rich history of studying polarization, and there is an important opportunity to define and refine its contributions to the present political realities. We do so in the context of one of the most pressing modern issues: climate change. We synthesize the literature on political polarization and its applications to climate change, and we propos…
Environmental Education and Sustainability (11 works) · Economics (9 works) · Business (8 works) · Climate change (8 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Climate Change Communication and Perception (5 works) · Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies (5 works) · Environmental Science (5 works) · Greenhouse gas (5 works) · Political science (5 works)