TY - JOUR
T1 - Individual responses to climate change: Framing effects on pro-environmental behaviors
AU - Sapiains, Rodolfo
AU - Beeton, Robert
AU - WALKER, Iain
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was supported by a scholarship from Conicyt-Chile Advanced Human Capital Program and a studentship from CSIRO's Climate Adaptation Flagship.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc
PY - 2016/8/1
Y1 - 2016/8/1
N2 - Promoting effective responses to climate change, especially among people who reject its anthropogenic causes, has been challenging. Following a qualitative study, we experimentally induce one of four frames of reference (identity, biodiversity conservation, economic prosperity, and climate change), and assess their effects on participants’ behavioral intentions using three scales (consumption-investment, consumption-reduction, and political participation). The sample (N = 156) included people who thought climate change is natural and those who thought it is human-induced. Results show a significant impact of the identity frame, relative to the climate-change frame, for both consumption scales, in the total sample, and among those who reject the anthropogenic causes. These results offer a way to address behavioral resistances associated with antagonistic views on climate change
AB - Promoting effective responses to climate change, especially among people who reject its anthropogenic causes, has been challenging. Following a qualitative study, we experimentally induce one of four frames of reference (identity, biodiversity conservation, economic prosperity, and climate change), and assess their effects on participants’ behavioral intentions using three scales (consumption-investment, consumption-reduction, and political participation). The sample (N = 156) included people who thought climate change is natural and those who thought it is human-induced. Results show a significant impact of the identity frame, relative to the climate-change frame, for both consumption scales, in the total sample, and among those who reject the anthropogenic causes. These results offer a way to address behavioral resistances associated with antagonistic views on climate change
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U2 - 10.1111/jasp.12378
DO - 10.1111/jasp.12378
M3 - Article
SN - 0021-9029
VL - 46
SP - 483
EP - 493
JO - Journal of Applied Social Psychology
JF - Journal of Applied Social Psychology
IS - 8
ER -
