Psychological responses to the proximity of climate change
Psychological responses to the proximity of climate change
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DOI：
10.1038/nclimate2760
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发表时间：
2015-12-01
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30.7
通讯作者：
Pidgeon, Nicholas F.
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作者：
Bruegger, Adrian;Dessai, Suraje;Pidgeon, Nicholas F.
24.为提高个人对气候变化采取行动和支持相关政策的意愿，经常提出的一个建议是强调其最近的后果，即在空间和时间上接近的后果。但是，以前测试这种近似方法的研究并没有显示出对个人行动和应对气候变化的支持的预期积极影响。我们提出了三条心理推理路线，提供了令人信服的论据，为什么强调气候变化的近端影响可能不是一种有效的方式，以增加个人的缓解和适应努力，因为往往是假设。我们在既定的心理学研究中对接近方法的语境化表明，取决于人们对这个问题采取的特定理论观点，以及这些观点所暗示的特定个体特征，接近可以带来预期的积极效果，可能没有（可见的）效果，甚至可能适得其反。因此，近似的影响比通常假设的要复杂得多。揭示这种复杂性有助于从理论上更好地理解心理距离在气候变化背景下所起的作用，并为未来的研究和干预开辟了进一步的途径。
A frequent suggestion to increase individuals' willingness to take action on climate change and to support relevant policies is to highlight its proximal consequences, that is, those that are close in space and time. But previous studies that have tested this proximizing approach have not revealed the expected positive effects on individual action and support for addressing climate change. We present three lines of psychological reasoning that provide compelling arguments as to why highlighting proximal impacts of climate change might not be as effective a way to increase individual mitigation and adaptation efforts as is often assumed. Our contextualization of the proximizing approach within established psychological research suggests that, depending on the particular theoretical perspective one takes on this issue, and on specific individual characteristics suggested by these perspectives, proximizing can bring about the intended positive effects, can have no (visible) effect or can even backfire. Thus, the effects of proximizing are much more complex than is commonly assumed. Revealing this complexity contributes to a refined theoretical understanding of the role that psychological distance plays in the context of climate change and opens up further avenues for future research and for interventions.