减少心理距离或挑战系统正当性的心理干预增加了为减缓气候变化而付出努力的动机
Jo Cutler1,2,3, Luis Sebastian Contreras-Huerta4,5,6,7,8, Boryana Todorova9
1Centre for Human Brain Health, School of Psychology, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK. J.L.Cutler@bham.ac.uk.
Communications psychology
|November 5, 2025
概括
通过减少心理距离和将气候行动视为爱国主义,两项心理干预有效地增加了努力的亲环境行动. 这些发现对于全球激励气候友好行为至关重要.
科学领域:
- 心理学科学 心理学科学
- 环境心理学 环境心理学
- 行为经济学是一种行为经济学.
背景情况:
- 气候变化需要广泛的环保行动,但人类对努力的厌恶阻碍了参与.
- 识别心理干预措施以增加对减缓气候变化的努力的意愿至关重要.
- 了解动机和努力厌恶的个体差异是设计有效干预的关键.
研究的目的:
- 研究心理干预措施,以增强对努力的环保行为的动机.
- 量化干预措施对为气候保护而付出身体努力的意愿的影响.
- 探索个人层面的因素,影响人们对有利于气候的动机.
主要方法:
- 在六个不同的国家进行了一项大规模研究 (N=3055),使用基于努力的决策任务 (Pro-Environmental Effort Task).
- 参与者经历了11项干预措施中的一个或控制条件,然后选择采取身体努力来减少碳排放.
- 计算模型被用来量化气候行动的动机与匹配的非环境原因.
主要成果:
- 两个干预措施:减少心理距离,将气候行动定为爱国/保护生活方式,持续增加了努力的环保行为.
- 利益气候的动机与对气候变化的信念和支持亲环境政策相关.
- 特征冷漠和努力厌恶与气候和非环境原因的动机降低有关.
结论:
- 心理干预可以通过改变观念和框架,有效地促进努力的气候行动.
- 减少心理距离和利用社会认同 (爱国主义) 是气候参与的有希望的战略.
- 研究结果为设计可扩展的干预措施提供了关键的见解,以鼓励必要的亲环境行为.
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