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Baldwin, Matthew and Lammers, Joris ORCID: 0000-0002-2647-121X (2016). Past-focused environmental comparisons promote proenvironmental outcomes for conservatives. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A., 113 (52). S. 14953 - 14958. WASHINGTON: NATL ACAD SCIENCES. ISSN 0027-8424

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Abstract

Conservatives appear more skeptical about climate change and global warming and less willing to act against it than liberals. We propose that this unwillingness could result from fundamental differences in conservatives' and liberals' temporal focus. Conservatives tend to focus more on the past than do liberals. Across six studies, we rely on this notion to demonstrate that conservatives are positively affected by past-but not by future-focused environmental comparisons. Past comparisons largely eliminated the political divide that separated liberal and conservative respondents' attitudes toward and behavior regarding climate change, so that across these studies conservatives and liberals were nearly equally likely to fight climate change. This research demonstrates how psychological processes, such as temporal comparison, underlie the prevalent ideological gap in addressing climate change. It opens up a promising avenue to convince conservatives effectively of the need to address climate change and global warming.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Baldwin, Matthew UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Lammers, Joris UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0002-2647-121X UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-252237
DOI:	10.1073/pnas.1610834113
Journal or Publication Title:	Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A.
Volume:	113
Number:	52
Page Range:	S. 14953 - 14958
Date:	2016
Publisher:	NATL ACAD SCIENCES
Place of Publication:	WASHINGTON
ISSN:	0027-8424
Language:	English
Faculty:	Faculty of Human Sciences Faculty of Management, Economy and Social Sciences
Divisions:	Faculty of Human Sciences > Department Psychologie Center of Excellence C-SEB
Subjects:	Psychology
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language CLIMATE-CHANGE; POLITICIZATION; ATTITUDES; IDEOLOGY; BELIEFS Multiple languages Multidisciplinary Sciences Multiple languages
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/25223