Die Klimakriese verlangt einen Wandel, der von vielen mitgetragen wird. Aber selbst wenn Menschen die moralische Verpflichtung verspüren, etwas zu tun, handeln sie oft nicht. Ein limitierender Faktor kann dabei Empowerment sein. Persönliche Normen werden eher das Verhalten leiten, wenn man das Gefühl hat, mit diesem Verhalten erwünschte Resultate zu erzielen. Wie können wir Empowerment...
The current climate crisis urges policy makers, industries and citizens to undertake actions and fight global warming. A social-psychological theory that bestows stakeholders with a suitable framework to tackle the problem is the Social Identity Model of Pro-Environmental Action (SIMPEA; Fritsche et al., 2018) that postulates a path from individual over social cognitions to environmental...
To successfully battle climate change, it is crucial to reach people across political camps and national borders. Research from English-speaking countries indicates that climate change communication is most effective when it addresses how climate action promotes recipients’ political values. Yet, to our knowledge, there is no such evidence from German-speaking nations. To fill this gap, we...
Evidently, our climate is changing and it is necessary to reduce the carbon dioxide emissions to mitigate this change (Australian Bureau of Meteorology, 2019). But opinions concerning climate change issues are difficult to change because of a mismatch with personal values (Stern et al., 1995). Unsworth and McNeill (2017) show that increasing self-concordance concerning personal values and the...
Negotiations are ubiquitous. To promote cooperative behavior, negotiation training has focused on personality and skills, which are both difficult to learn or change. The influence of environmental factors on negotiation has been neglected although it’s a feature easier to change. Light is used in consumer research to influence people's behavior but its influence on negotiation is unknown....
