To select effective interventions for pro-environmental behaviour change, we need to consider determinants of behaviour

AM van Valkengoed, W Abrahamse, L Steg - Nature human behaviour, 2022 - nature.com
Encouraging pro-environmental behaviour is necessary to reduce CO2 emissions and limit
global climate change. Many reviews and meta-analyses have been published examining …

The psychological drivers of misinformation belief and its resistance to correction

UKH Ecker, S Lewandowsky, J Cook… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Misinformation has been identified as a major contributor to various contentious
contemporary events ranging from elections and referenda to the response to the COVID-19 …

The i-frame and the s-frame: How focusing on individual-level solutions has led behavioral public policy astray

N Chater, G Loewenstein - Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2023 - cambridge.org
An influential line of thinking in behavioral science, to which the two authors have long
subscribed, is that many of society's most pressing problems can be addressed cheaply and …

Field interventions for climate change mitigation behaviors: A second-order meta-analysis

M Bergquist, M Thiel, MH Goldberg… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - pnas.org
Behavioral change is essential to mitigate climate change. To advance current knowledge,
we synthesize research on interventions aiming to promote climate change mitigation …

Scaling up change: A critical review and practical guide to harnessing social norms for climate action

SM Constantino, G Sparkman… - … science in the …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Anthropogenic carbon emissions have the potential to trigger changes in climate and
ecosystems that would be catastrophic for the well-being of humans and other species …

Psychology of climate change

L Steg - Annual Review of Psychology, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Human behavior plays a critical role in causing global climate change as well as in
responding to it. In this article, I review important insights on the psychology of climate …

Behavioural science is unlikely to change the world without a heterogeneity revolution

CJ Bryan, E Tipton, DS Yeager - Nature human behaviour, 2021 - nature.com
In the past decade, behavioural science has gained influence in policymaking but suffered a
crisis of confidence in the replicability of its findings. Here, we describe a nascent …

Demand, services and social aspects of mitigation

F Creutzig, J Roy, P Devine-Wright, J Díaz-José… - 2022 - espace.curtin.edu.au
Assessment of the social science literature and regional case studies reveals how social
norms, culture, and individual choices, interact with infrastructure and other structural …

Determinants of emissions pathways in the coupled climate–social system

FC Moore, K Lacasse, KJ Mach, YA Shin, LJ Gross… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
The ambition and effectiveness of climate policies will be essential in determining
greenhouse gas emissions and, as a consequence, the scale of climate change impacts …

Toward effective government communication strategies in the era of COVID-19

B Hyland-Wood, J Gardner, J Leask… - Humanities and Social …, 2021 - nature.com
Several countries have successfully reduced their COVID-19 infection rate early, while
others have been overwhelmed. The reasons for the differences are complex, but response …