爱一个昆虫需要什么? 知识,情感价值,以及对昆虫保护态度的政治
Barbara C Malt1, Jessecae K Marsh1
1Department of Psychology, Lehigh University.
Topics in cognitive science
|June 22, 2023
概括
政治取向,而不是知识,强烈地预测了对昆虫保护的关注. 即使公共话语没有直接谈论昆虫,也会影响环境态度.
科学领域:
- 环境心理学 环境心理学
- 保护生物学 保护生物学
- 公共话语分析 公共话语分析
背景情况:
- 环境态度通常是由社会和动机因素驱动的,而领域知识起到较小的作用.
- 昆虫种群的减少是一个重要的保护问题,但它们得到了有限的公众关注,可能会减少社会和动机因素的影响.
- 了解影响公众对保护昆虫的关注因素对于有效的保护策略至关重要.
研究的目的:
- 调查昆虫知识 (命题和因果),情感价值和政治取向对昆虫保护的关注的相对贡献.
- 通过不同文化背景来比较这些关系,特别是美国和英国的人口.
- 为了确定政治取向或知识是否是昆虫保护关注的更强有力的预测因素.
主要方法:
- 从美国大学生和美国和英国的生产力工人收集的数据.
- 评估关于昆虫的命题和因果知识.
- 测量了与昆虫和参与者的政治取向相关的情感价值.
主要成果:
- 与美国参与者相比,英国参与者对昆虫保护的总体关注度更高.
- 在美国和英国的样本中,政治取向是对昆虫保护问题的最强有力的预测因素.
- 对昆虫的因果知识是一个重要的因素,但影响力不如政治取向.
- 情绪价值对美国参与者来说是积极预测关注的,但对英国参与者来说不是.
结论:
- 政治化的公共话语影响了人们对昆虫的态度,即使没有明确讨论昆虫.
- 与政治取向相比,知识变化对保护昆虫的关注影响有限.
- 对昆虫的情绪反应在公共话语较少两极分化的情况下的影响力较小.
- 尽管经常有负面的关联,但对昆虫保护的关注是可能的,特别是当话语不那么有政治含量时.
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