The effects of a temporal framing manipulation on environmentalism: A replication and extension.

ABSTRACT: Recent research promotes comparing the current state of the environment with the past (and not the future) to increase the pro-environmental attitudes of those on the political right. We aimed to replicate this temporal framing effect and extend on research in this area by testing the potential drivers of the effect. Across two large-scale replication studies, we found limited evidence that past comparisons (relative to future comparisons) increase pro-environmentalism among those with a more conservative political ideology, thus precluding a full investigation into the mediators of the effect. Where the effect was present, it was not consistent across studies. In Study One, conservatives reported greater certainty that climate change was real after viewing past comparisons, as the environ

SUBMITTER: Stanley SK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7877654 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature