Wyss, Annika M.; Berger, Sebastian; Baumgartner, Thomas; Knoch, Daria (2021). Reactions to warnings in the climate commons. Journal of environmental psychology, 78, p. 101689. Elsevier 10.1016/j.jenvp.2021.101689
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People receive daily environmental warnings about the risk of reaching critical climate tipping points leading to irreversible consequences. However, little is known about whether such warnings promote behavioral change, or how emotions underlie such responses. Here, we present two preregistered online experiments, in which group members can harvest financial resources from a common pool while risking collective over-exploitation causing an actual environmental externality. We find that warnings are effective and that the self-conscious emotion guilt consistently correlates with (Study 1) and mediates (Study 2) the effect of warnings on sustainable behavioral change. This suggest that warnings, as a lever of experienced guilt, may qualify as an effective strategy to promote cooperation in the climate commons.
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Journal Article (Original Article) |
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Division/Institute: |
07 Faculty of Human Sciences > Institute of Psychology > Social Neuroscience and Social Psychology |
UniBE Contributor: |
Wyss, Annika Marit, Berger, Sebastian, Baumgartner, Thomas, Knoch, Daria |
Subjects: |
300 Social sciences, sociology & anthropology |
ISSN: |
0272-4944 |
Publisher: |
Elsevier |
Language: |
English |
Submitter: |
Sebastian Berger |
Date Deposited: |
26 Jan 2022 15:46 |
Last Modified: |
05 Dec 2022 15:57 |
Publisher DOI: |
10.1016/j.jenvp.2021.101689 |
BORIS DOI: |
10.48350/162608 |
URI: |
https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/162608 |
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