在更新有关气候变化的信念时,乐观的偏见纵向预测了低的亲环境行为
Tobias Kube1, Jasmin Huhn1, Claudia Menzel1
1Department of Psychology, University of Kaiserslautern-Landau, Kaiserslautern, Germany.
The British journal of social psychology
|May 22, 2025
概括
更新气候变化信念的乐观偏见预测随着时间的推移,环保行为 (PEB) 会降低. 改变这种偏见的干预措施是无效的,这表明激励气候行动存在挑战.
科学领域:
- 心理学 心理学 心理学
- 环境科学 环境科学
- 社会认知是指社会认知.
背景情况:
- 乐观偏见,即倾向于比负面信息更容易整合积极信息的倾向,可能会影响气候变化信仰.
- 这种偏见可能会降低对亲环境行为 (PEB) 的感知紧迫性.
研究的目的:
- 调查气候变化信念更新中的乐观偏见是否会在横截面和纵向上预测PEB.
- 检查实验性干预是否可以改变信念更新偏见并增加PEB.
主要方法:
- 两项研究 (N=109,N=407) 使用了一项实验任务,参与者根据科学证据更新了气候变化信仰.
- 纵向分析评估了PEB4周后. 简短的干预也被测试了.
主要成果:
- 乐观的信念更新没有预测PEB截面,但预测了较低的PEB纵向.
- 尽管存在性别差异,实验性干预并没有显著改变信念更新或PEB.
- 这种偏差似乎很难修改.
结论:
- 在气候变化方面的乐观偏见,纵向更新的信念预测减少了亲环境行为.
- 这种偏见可能源于感知到行动紧迫性的减少.
- 修改这种认知偏见以促进气候行动面临重大挑战.
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