Effects of system-sanctioned framing on climate awareness and environmental action in the United States and beyond.

ABSTRACT: Despite growing scientific alarm about anthropogenic climate change, the world is not on track to solve the crisis. Inaction may be partially explained by skepticism about climate change and resistance to proenvironmental policies from people who are motivated to maintain the status quo (i.e., conservative-rightists). Therefore, practical interventions are needed. In the present research program, we tested an experimental manipulation derived from system justification theory in which proenvironmental initiatives were framed as patriotic and necessary to maintain the American "way of life." In a large, nationally representative U.S. sample, we found that the system-sanctioned change intervention successfully increased liberal-leftists' as well as conservative-rightists' belief in climate ch

SUBMITTER: Mason KA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11420171 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature