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Redefining climate change inaction as temporal intergroup bias: Temporally adapted interventions for reducing prejudice may help elicit environmental protection

Meleady, R.; Crisp, R.J.

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R. Meleady



Abstract

The consequences of the environmental decisions we make today will bear upon future generations of people. We argue that the framing of climate change is inherently intergroup in nature and suggest a reason for inaction on climate change is the perception of future generations as an outgroup. We test whether a technique adapted from the realm of intergroup relations may provide a novel approach to encouraging more sustainable environmental conduct. In Study 1 we found that participants who completed a simple social categorization technique designed to reduce (temporal) intergroup bias subsequently displayed a heightened preference for sustainable goods in a product choice task. Study 2 replicated these results with an alternative measure of pro-environmental intentions, and confirmed that the effect of the intervention on environmental outcomes was explained by changes in intergroup perception.

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Meleady, R., & Crisp, R. (2017). Redefining climate change inaction as temporal intergroup bias: Temporally adapted interventions for reducing prejudice may help elicit environmental protection. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 53, 206-212. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2017.08.005

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Aug 30, 2017
Online Publication Date Sep 1, 2017
Publication Date Nov 1, 2017
Deposit Date Aug 31, 2017
Publicly Available Date Mar 28, 2024
Journal Journal of Environmental Psychology
Print ISSN 0272-4944
Publisher Elsevier
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 53
Pages 206-212
DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2017.08.005

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