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DOI	10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2017.01.008
	The norms associated with climate change: Understanding social norms through acts of interpersonal activism
	Steentjes K.; Kurz T.; Barreto M.; Morton T.A.
发表日期	2017
ISSN	0959-3780
卷号	43
英文摘要	A growing body of research points to the role social norms may play in both maintaining carbon intensive lifestyles and soliciting changes towards more sustainable ways of living. However, despite highlighting the importance of pro-environmental social norms, such literature has said far less about the processes by which such norms might develop. We present a new approach to conceptualising social norms that focuses on understanding their dynamics within social interaction, by positioning interpersonal confrontation as a potential mechanism of change. We examine the normative dynamics of environmentalism by comparing the costs of interpersonally confronting climate change disregard with those associated with confronting racism. In two experimental studies, we presented participants with scenarios describing a person confronting (versus not confronting) contentious comments in each domain. We identified social costs to interpersonal confrontation of climate change disregard but not racism, as indicated by reduced ratings of perceived warmth of and closeness to the confronter (Study 1), and this effect was mediated by the perceived morality of the issue in question (Study 2). Our findings highlight how wider social constructions of (im)morality around climate change impact upon social interactions in ways that have important implications for processes of social (and ultimately environmental) change. © 2017 Elsevier Ltd
英文关键词	Climate change; Interpersonal activism; Morality; Persuasion/social influence; Social change; Social norms
学科领域	climate change; conceptual framework; environmental research; environmentalism; experimental study; literature review; morality; Orientalism; racism; social change
语种	英语
scopus关键词	climate change; conceptual framework; environmental research; environmentalism; experimental study; literature review; morality; Orientalism; racism; social change
来源期刊	Global Environmental Change
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/117267
作者单位	School of Psychology, University of Exeter, United Kingdom; School of Psychology, Cardiff University, United Kingdom; Department of Psychology, University of Bath, United Kingdom; Instituto Universitario de Lisboa (CIS, ISCTE-IUL), Portugal
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Steentjes K.,Kurz T.,Barreto M.,et al. The norms associated with climate change: Understanding social norms through acts of interpersonal activism[J],2017,43.
APA	Steentjes K.,Kurz T.,Barreto M.,&Morton T.A..(2017).The norms associated with climate change: Understanding social norms through acts of interpersonal activism.Global Environmental Change,43.
MLA	Steentjes K.,et al."The norms associated with climate change: Understanding social norms through acts of interpersonal activism".Global Environmental Change 43(2017).