Global heart warming: kama muta evoked by climate change messages is associated with intentions to mitigate climate change.

ABSTRACT: Concern about climate change is often rooted in sympathy, compassion, and care for nature, living beings, and future generations. Feeling sympathy for others temporarily forms a bond between them and us: we focus on what we have in common and feel a sense of common destiny. Thus, we temporarily experience communal sharing relationships. A sudden intensification in communal sharing evokes an emotion termed kama muta, which may be felt through tearing up, a warm feeling in the chest, or goosebumps. We conducted four pre-registered studies (n = 1,049) to test the relationship between kama muta and pro-environmental attitudes, intentions, and behavior. In each study, participants first reported their attitudes about climate change. Then, they received climate change-relate

SUBMITTER: Seibt B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10175856 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature