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  • Social Psychology
  • Environmental Psychology

Background:

  • Previous research suggested framing environmental protection as maintaining the status quo can encourage pro-environmental responses.
  • This study aimed to replicate and extend these findings.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate whether framing environmental protection as preserving the status quo influences pro-environmental intentions and behaviors.
  • To examine the role of system justification and system dependence in pro-environmental responses.

Main Methods:

  • A preregistered close replication and extension study with 567 participants.
  • Participants were exposed to system-preservation, control, or no message conditions.
  • System justification, environmental intentions, and pro-environmental behaviors (petition signing) were measured.

Main Results:

  • No evidence that system justification interacted with message framing (system-preservation vs. control) on environmental intentions when system dependence was induced.
  • However, message framing did affect petition signing likelihood.
  • A negative association between system justification and pro-environmental behavior intentions was observed in a true control group (no message).

Conclusions:

  • Replication is crucial, and including a true control condition is important for accurate interpretation.
  • Leveraging existing values, like system justification, does not always mobilize pro-environmental actions.
  • System dependence messages may decrease pro-environmental responses in individuals ideologically opposed to the status quo.