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DOI	10.1038/s41558-023-01910-2
	A representative survey experiment of motivated climate change denial
	Stoetzer, Lasse S.; Zimmermann, Florian
发表日期	2024
ISSN	1758-678X
EISSN	1758-6798
英文摘要	Climate change is arguably one of the greatest challenges today. Although the scientific consensus is that human activities caused climate change, a substantial part of the population downplays or denies human responsibility. In this registered report, we present causal evidence on a potential explanation for this discrepancy: motivated reasoning. We conducted a tailored survey experiment on a broadly representative sample of 4,000 US adults to provide causal evidence on how motivated cognition shapes beliefs about climate change and influences the demand for slanted information. We further explore the role of motives on environmentally harmful behaviour. Contrary to our hypotheses, we find no evidence that motivated cognition can help to explain widespread climate change denial and environmentally harmful behaviour.protocol registration The Stage 1 protocol for this Registered Report was accepted in principle on 10 May 2023. The protocol, as accepted by the journal, can be found at https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.24523357.v1. The desire to justify carbon-emitting behaviours could influence people's climate change beliefs due to motivated cognition. Based on a pre-registered survey experiment in the United States, the study, however, finds no evidence supporting the claim in explaining climate denial and environmentally harmful behaviour.
英文关键词	INFORMATION; BELIEFS; PREFERENCE; POLICY; IMAGE
WOS研究方向	Environmental Sciences ; Environmental Studies ; Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences
WOS记录号	WOS:001156522800001
来源期刊	Nature Climate Change
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/282306
作者单位	IZA Institute Labor Economics; University of Bonn
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Stoetzer, Lasse S.,Zimmermann, Florian. A representative survey experiment of motivated climate change denial[J],2024.
APA	Stoetzer, Lasse S.,&Zimmermann, Florian.(2024).A representative survey experiment of motivated climate change denial.Nature Climate Change.
MLA	Stoetzer, Lasse S.,et al."A representative survey experiment of motivated climate change denial".Nature Climate Change (2024).