Development and validation of the Emotional Climate Change Stories (ECCS) stimuli set.

ABSTRACT: Climate change is widely recognised as an urgent issue, and the number of people concerned about it is increasing. While emotions are among the strongest predictors of behaviour change in the face of climate change, researchers have only recently begun to investigate this topic experimentally. This may be due to the lack of standardised, validated stimuli that would make studying such a topic in experimental settings possible. Here, we introduce a novel Emotional Climate Change Stories (ECCS) stimuli set. ECCS consists of 180 realistic short stories about climate change, designed to evoke five distinct emotions-anger, anxiety, compassion, guilt and hope-in addition to neutral stories. The stories were created based on qualitative data collected in two independent studies: one conducted amo

SUBMITTER: Zaremba D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11133034 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature