How psychology can help limit climate change
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5765664 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kristian Steensen Nielsen (0000-0002-8395-4007, University of Cambridge), Susan Clayton (0000-0002-2343-6865, College of Wooster), Paul C Stern (0000-0002-9481-3904, Social and Environmental Research Institute), T Dietz (0000-0001-9399-0784, Michigan State University), Stuart Capstick (0000-0002-1934-4503, Cardiff University), Lorraine Whitmarsh (0000-0002-9054-1040, Cardiff University) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 76 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 130-144 |
| Publication date | 2020-03-23 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Psychologist (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-066X • E-ISSN: 1935-990X |
| Publisher | American Psychological Association (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1037/amp0000624 |
| PMID | 32202817 |
| OpenAlex | W3012632961 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 104 |
| References cited | 63 |
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has encouraged psychologists to become part of the integrated scientific effort to support the achievement of climate change targets such as keeping within 1.5C or 2C of global warming.To date, the typical psychological approach has been to demonstrate that specific concepts and theories can predict behaviors that contribute to or mitigate climate change.Psychologists need to go further, and in particular to show that integrating psychological concepts into feasible interventions can reduce greenhouse gas emissions far more than would be achieved without such integration.While critiquing some aspects of current approaches, we describe psychological research that is pointing the way by distinguishing different types of behavior, acknowledging sociocultural context, and collaborating with other disciplines.Engaging this challenge offers psychologists new opportunities for promoting mitigation, advancing psychological understanding, and developing better interdisciplinary interactions
Behavioral Health and Interventions · Climate Change Communication and Perception · Environmental Education and Sustainability
Toward a Political Ecology of Mind
When and how pro-environmental attitudes turn into behavior
Does environmental education benefit environmental outcomes in children and adolescents? A meta-analysis
The role of high-socioeconomic-status people in locking in or rapidly reducing energy-driven greenhouse gas emissions
What drives pro-environmental activism of young people? A survey study on the Fridays For Future movement
Behaviour change to address climate change
Three Decades of Climate Mitigation
‘Baby, you really drive your car’
The motivational roots of sustainable diets
The Role of Motivation for Environmental Protection in Predicting Pro-Environmental Behaviour in Russia
“Don’t Tell Me What to Do”
Economic experiments support Ostrom’s polycentric approach to mitigating climate change
Assessing climate literacy in secondary schools
Missing Pieces in the Discussion on Climate Change and Risk
Are alternative fuels considered a game changer? Benefit and barrier perceptions and the acceptance of alternative fuels for road transport
Not All Green Behaviors Are Equal
Realizing the full potential of behavioural science for climate change mitigation
Are Insects Edible? A Narrative Review of Children's Perceptions of and Willingness to Consume Edible Insects
Affect and Impact Neglect in Sustainable Decision-Making
An Emotional Road to Sustainability
Social Psychological Perspectives on Political Polarization
Information Avoidance
Research on climate change in social psychology publications
Contribution of psychology to sustainable development goals
A person-centered analysis of climate change appraisals
Choosing to live environmentally childfree
Positive youth development as a pathway to climate engagement
Facilitating pro-environmental behavior through collective processes at events
Climate extreme events and climate change are enforced by extortionate freeriders overloading those who mitigate – An economic experiment
Exploring the perception and awareness of the impacts of climate change on livelihoods in selected rural and urban households in Zimbabwe
Beliefs and Social Norms as Precursors of Environmental Support
What's in It for Them? A Developmental Science Perspective on Adolescent Climate Activism
Trajectories and turning points
Effects of Nature Values and Regulatory Fit of Message Framing on Message Evaluation and Actual Pro-Environmental Donations
From Parents to Planet
How Do Vegetarians Make Pro-Environmental Decisions Unrelated to Food Choice? A MouselabWEB Study
Norm Neutralization and Climate Inaction
Can we trigger radical lifestyle change in sustainable consumption? Exploring motivations, abilities and triggers of dietary changes
Covid-19 in the Time of Climate Change
Experiencing Climate Change Virtually
Thunberg’s Way in the Climate Debate
Animated infographic for clean sea campaign and its impact on environmental attitudes
Relationality is not Weird
Dead in the water
Disconnection from nature
Socioeconomic status, time preferences and pro-environmentalism
How Effective Altruism Can Help Psychologists Maximize Their Impact
How Effective Altruism Can Help Psychologists Maximize Their Impact
Socioeconomic status, time preferences and pro-environmentalism
Carbon footprint calculators to support education on sustainable behaviour
Mortality management and climate action
Earth altruism
Practical lessons for creating affordance-based interventions for sustainable behavior change
The perceived feasibility of behavior change is positively associated with support for domain-matched climate policies
Improving Climate Change Mitigation Analysis
Ubuntu and Sámi Worldviews of Nature and Responsibility
Social identity and pro-environmental behavior—a scoping review
Whose job is it to solve climate change? Perceptions of the roles of diverse actors in addressing climate change
The role of climate change perceptions and sociodemographics on reported mitigation efforts and performance among households in northeastern Mexico
Toward a comprehensive dimensional model of sustainable behaviors
Does recalling energy efficiency measures reduce subsequent climate-friendly behavior? An experimental study of moral licensing rebound effects
Climate change impacts on the mental health and wellbeing of young people
Mapping Public-Planner Conflicts in Suds Implementation Using Cultural Dimensions—A Case Study
Brain mechanisms underlying prospective thinking of sustainable behaviours
Sustainable dietary choices improved by reflection before a nudge in an online experiment
When and how behavior change can accelerate system change (and vice versa)
Local citizen assemblies to overcome resistance to the mobility transition? Analyzing discourses in a municipality in rural Germany
What explains German consumers’ acceptance of carbon pricing? Examining the roles of pro-environmental orientation and consumer coping style
The science of mitigation
Decisions and decision-makers
Towards a common intervention framework
Closing the gap
Energizing building renovation
The Intergenerational Transmission of Pro-Environmental Behaviours
Environmental behaviours within ecological and social limits
Perceived impacts of the Fridays for Future climate movement on environmental concern and behaviour in Switzerland
Directing personal sustainability science toward subjective experience
Achieving transformational change through the consilience of behavioral science and radical alternatives
Opening the human spirit to sustainability transformation
A human rights‐based approach to climate injustices at the local, national, and international levels
Prefiguring sustainable futures? Young people’s strategies to deal with conflicts about climate-friendly food choices and implications for transformative learning
An application of the transtheoretical model to climate change prevention
Promoting adolescents' pro‐environmental behavior
Carbon capability revisited
Perceived plasticity of climate-relevant behaviors and policy support among high- and lower-income individuals
Guilty pleasures
Direct and mediated impacts of social norms on pro-environmental behavior
Orchestration of perspectives in televised climate change debates
Behavioral barriers impede pro-environmental decision-making
Sustaining local commons in the face of uncertain ecological thresholds
Heuristic processing of green advertising
A People‐Focused Systems Approach to Sustainability
The role of critical methodologies in climate psychology scholarship
A human rights based approach to the global children's rights crisis
The gateway (mis)belief model
Too much praise for reappraisal? Examining reappraisal's impact on threat mitigation depending on its implementation
Addressing the climate crisis
The ‘Bolsonaro bridge
Cognitive connections in visitor loyalty towards environmental sustainability at World Expo 2020
Using protection motivation theory to explain Australian's motivations to engage in individual and collective climate actions
Energy Use
Comfort and Convenience
Analysis and valuation of the health and climate change cobenefits of dietary change
Environmental Sustainability and Behavioral Science
Household energy consumption in the UK
Sharing global CO 2 emission reductions among one billion high emitters
Empirical evidence of mental health risks posed by climate change
On Integrating the Components of Self-Control
Some Consequences of Having Too Little
Public perceptions of energy consumption and savings
The Neuroscience of Socioeconomic Status
Transactive goal dynamics.
Household actions can provide a behavioral wedge to rapidly reduce US carbon emissions
Simple and Painless? The Limitations of Spillover in Environmental Campaigning
Personal and contextual influences on househould energy adaptations.
Keeping energy visible? Exploring how householders interact with feedback from smart energy monitors in the longer term
Poverty eradication in a carbon constrained world
Psychological Dimensions of Global Environmental Change
Values, Norms, and Intrinsic Motivation to Act Proenvironmentally
The Constructive, Destructive, and Reconstructive Power of Social Norms
Reducing food’s environmental impacts through producers and consumers
The Oxford Handbook of Political Consumerism
Inequality, Decisions, and Altruism
Psychological research and global climate change
Environmental Impact Assessment of Household Consumption
Examining the decision-making processes behind household energy investments
Americans Recommend Smaller Ecological Footprints When Reminded of Intrinsic American Values of Self-Expression, Family, and Generosity
Measuring what works
Limiting climate change
The climate mitigation gap
Mapping the carbon footprint of EU regions
Meta-analysis of pro-environmental behaviour spillover
Thermal comfort or money saving? Exploring intentions to conserve energy among low-income households in the United States
Individual and household interactions with energy systems
Personal mobility and climate change
Developing a critical agenda to understand pro‐environmental actions
Habitual behaviors or patterns of practice? Explaining and changing repetitive climate‐relevant actions
Climate‐relevant behavioral spillover and the potential contribution of social practice theory
Collective climate action and networked climate governance
Developing a critical agenda to understand pro‐environmental actions
Social influence in the global diffusion of alternative fuel vehicles – A meta-analysis
Public engagement with carbon and climate change
Energy use
Social Stratification and Environmental Degradation
New Environmental Theories
Human behavioral contributions to climate change
Expanding the role for psychology in addressing environmental challenges
Contributions of psychology to limiting climate change
Psychology's contributions to understanding and addressing global climate change
The effects of feedback on energy conservation
Multiple Models to Inform Climate Change Policy
The effect of tailored information, goal setting, and tailored feedback on household energy use, energy-related behaviors, and behavioral antecedents
How long will it take? Conceptualizing the temporal dynamics of energy transitions
Explaining Human Actions and Environmental Changes
Structure, agency and environment
Live Better by Consuming Less
Beyond the ABC
Social Stratification and Environmental Degradation
Environmental Consequences of Moral Disinhibition
Human Agency and the Evolutionary Dynamics of Culture
| Unique citing works | 104 |
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| Citations per year | 17,33 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2026 (7) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 103 |