Is climate change induced by humans? The impact of the gap in perceptions on cooperation
Is climate change induced by humans? The impact of the gap in perceptions on cooperation
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气候变化是人类引起的吗？
DOI：
10.1007/s41885-021-00090-7
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发表时间：
2021
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通讯作者：
Nakagawa Yoshinori
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作者：
Hirose Junichi;Kotani Koji;Nakagawa Yoshinori
气候变化是一个需要人们合作解决的严重问题，据报告，对原因的认识存在差距。然而，人们对气候变化是由人为、自然或其他因素引起的认知以及认知与合作之间的联系知之甚少。通过对400名日本人进行气候捐赠游戏的调查实验，分析了人为感知的决定因素以及感知的差距对应对气候变化合作行为的影响。首先，分析确定了人们的科学素养的重要性，在解释那些具有高科学素养往往有人类引起的气候变化的看法差距。第二，人们被确定为对气候变化的合作，因为他们有亲社会的价值取向，高科学素养和人类引起的气候变化的看法，这表明科学素养的两个重要作用，不仅是一个直接的决定因素，也是一个间接的，通过人们的看法的中介。总体而言，研究结果表明，科学素养应是通过促进对人为气候变化的认识来加强应对气候变化合作的关键。
Climate change is a serious problem that requires people’s cooperation to solve, and it has been reported that there exist gaps in perceptions about the cause. However, little is known about what makes people perceive that climate change is human-induced, nature-induced or induced by some other factor and the linkage between perception and cooperation. We analyze the determinants of human-induced perception and the impact of the gap in perceptions on cooperative behaviors toward climate change by conducting a survey experiment with a climate donation game with 400 Japanese subjects. First, the analysis identifies the importance of people’s scientific literacy in explaining the perception gaps in that those with high scientific literacy tend to have the perception of human-induced climate change. Second, people are identified as being cooperative toward climate change, as they have a prosocial value orientation, high scientific literacy and the perception of human-induced climate change, demonstrating two important roles of scientific literacy as not only a direct determinant but also an indirect one, through a mediator of people’s perceptions. Overall, the results suggest that scientific literacy shall be a key to enhancing cooperation toward climate change by promoting the perception of human-induced climate change.