Addressing climate change with behavioral science: A global intervention tournament in 63 countries
Effectively reducing climate change requires marked, global behavior change. However, it is unclear which strategies are most likely to motivate people to change their climate beliefs and behaviors. Here, we tested 11 expert-crowdsourced interventions on four climate mitigation outcomes: beliefs, po...
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| author2 | Doell, Kimberly C. Bak-Coleman, Joseph B. Todorova, Boryana Berkebile-Weinberg, Michael M. Grayson, Samantha J. Patel, Yash Goldwert, Danielle Pei, Yifei Chakroff, Alek Pronizius, Ekaterina van den Broek, Karlijn L. Vlasceanu, Denisa Constantino, Sara Morais, Michael J. Schumann, Philipp Rathje, Steve Fang, Ke Aglioti, Salvatore Maria Alfano, Mark Alvarado-Yepez, Andy J. Andersen, Angélica Anseel, Frederik Apps, Matthew A. J. Asadli, Chillar Awuor, Fonda Jane Azevedo, Flavio Basaglia, Piero Bélanger, Jocelyn J. Berger, Sebastian Bertin, Paul Białek, Michał Bialobrzeska, Olga Blaya-Burgo, Michelle Bleize, Daniëlle N. M. Bø, Simen Boecker, Lea Boggio, Paulo S. Borau, Sylvie Bos, Björn Bouguettaya, Ayoub Brauer, Markus Brick, Cameron Brik, Tymofii Briker, Roman Brosch, Tobias Buchel, Ondrej Buonauro, Daniel Butalia, Radhika Carvacho, Héctor Chamberlain, Sarah A. E. Chan, Hang-Yee Chow, Dawn Chung, Dongil Cian, Luca Cohen-Eick, Noa Contreras-Huerta, Luis Sebastian Contu, Davide Cristea, Vladimir Cutler, Jo D'Ottone, Silvana De Keersmaecker, Jonas Delcourt, Sarah Delouvée, Sylvain Diel, Kathi Douglas, Benjamin D. Drupp, Moritz A. Dubey, Shreya Ekmanis, Jānis Elbaek, Christian T. Elsherif, Mahmoud Engelhard, Iris M. Escher, Yannik A. Etienne, Tom W. Farage, Laura Farias, Ana Rita Feuerriegel, Stefan Findor, Andrej Freira, Lucia Friese, Malte Gains, Neil Philip Gallyamova, Albina Geiger, Sandra J. Genschow, Oliver Gjoneska, Biljana Gkinopoulos, Theofilos Goldberg, Beth Goldenberg, Amit Gradidge, Sarah Grassini, Simone Gray, Kurt Grelle, Sonja Griffin, Siobhán M. Grigoryan, Lusine Grigoryan, Ani Grigoryev, Dmitry Gruber, June Guilaran, Johnrev Hadar, Britt Hahnel, Ulf J.J. Halperin, Eran Harvey, Annelie J. Haugestad, Christian A. P. Herman, Aleksandra M. Hershfield, Hal E. Himichi, Toshiyuki Hine, Donald W. Hofmann, Wilhelm Howe, Lauren Huaman-Chulluncuy, Enma T. Huang, Guanxiong Ishii, Tatsunori Ito, Ayahito Jia, Fanli Jost, John T. Jovanović, Veljko Jurgiel, Dominika Kácha, Ondřej Kankaanpää, Reeta Kantorowicz, Jaroslaw Kantorowicz-Reznichenko, Elena Kaplan Mintz, Keren Kaya, Ilker Kaya, Ozgur Khachatryan, Narine Klas, Anna Klein, Colin Klöckner, Christian A. Koppel, Lina Kosachenko, Alexandra I. Kothe, Emily J. Krebs, Ruth Krosch, Amy R. Krouwel, Andre P.M. Kyrychenko, Yara Lagomarsino, Maria Lamm, Claus Lange, Florian Lee Cunningham, Julia Lees, Jeffrey Leung, Tak Yan Levy, Neil Lockwood, Patricia L. Longoni, Chiara López Ortega, Alberto Loschelder, David D. Lu, Jackson G. Luo, Yu Luomba, Joseph Lutz, Annika E. Majer, Johann M. Markowitz, Ezra Marsh, Abigail A. Mascarenhas, Karen Louise Mbilingi, Bwambale Mbungu, Winfred McHugh, Cillian Meijers, Marijn H.C. Mercier, Hugo Mhagama, Fenant Laurent Michalakis, Katerina Mikus, Nace Milliron, Sarah Mitkidis, Panagiotis Monge-Rodríguez, Fredy S. Mora, Youri L. Moreau, David Motoki, Kosuke Moyano, Manuel Mus, Mathilde Navajas, Joaquin Nguyen, Tam Luong Nguyen, Dung Minh Nguyen, Trieu Niemi, Laura Nijssen, Sari R. R. Nilsonne, Gustav Nitschke, Jonas P. Nockur, Laila Okura, Ritah Öner, Sezin Özdoğru, Asil Ali Palumbo, Helena Panagopoulos, Costas Panasiti, Maria Serena Pärnamets, Philip Paruzel-Czachura, Mariola Pavlov, Yuri G. Payán-Gómez, César Pearson, Adam R. Pereira da Costa, Leonor Petrowsky, Hannes M. Pfattheicher, Stefan Pham, Nhat Tan Ponizovskiy, Vladimir Pretus, Clara Rêgo, Gabriel G. Reimann, Ritsaart Rhoads, Shawn A. Riano-Moreno, Julian Richter, Isabell Röer, Jan Philipp Rosa-Sullivan, Jahred Ross, Robert M. Sabherwal, Anandita Saito, Toshiki Sarrasin, Oriane Say, Nicolas Schmid, Katharina Schmitt, Michael T. Schoenegger, Philipp Scholz, Christin Schug, Mariah G. Schulreich, Stefan Shreedhar, Ganga Shuman, Eric Sivan, Smadar Sjåstad, Hallgeir Soliman, Meikel Soud, Katia Spampatti, Tobia Sparkman, Gregg Spasovski, Ognen Stanley, Samantha K. Stern, Jessica A. Strahm, Noel Suko, Yasushi Sul, Sunhae Syropoulos, Stylianos Taylor, Neil C. Tedaldi, Elisa Tinghög, Gustav Huynh, Luu Duc Toan Travaglino, Giovanni Antonio Tsakiris, Manos Tüter, İlayda Tyrala, Michael Uluğ, Özden Melis Urbanek, Arkadiusz Valko, Danila van der Linden, Sander van Schie, Kevin van Stekelenburg, Aart Vanags, Edmunds Västfjäll, Daniel Vesely, Stepan Vintr, Jáchym Vranka, Marek Wanguche, Patrick Otuo Willer, Robb Wojcik, Adrian Dominik Xu, Rachel Yadav, Anjali Zawisza, Magdalena Zhao, Xian Zhao, Jiaying Żuk, Dawid Van Bavel, Jay J. |
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| dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv | Vlasceanu, Madalina Doell, Kimberly C. Bak-Coleman, Joseph B. Todorova, Boryana Berkebile-Weinberg, Michael M. Grayson, Samantha J. Patel, Yash Goldwert, Danielle Pei, Yifei Chakroff, Alek Pronizius, Ekaterina van den Broek, Karlijn L. Vlasceanu, Denisa Constantino, Sara Morais, Michael J. Schumann, Philipp Rathje, Steve Fang, Ke Aglioti, Salvatore Maria Alfano, Mark Alvarado-Yepez, Andy J. Andersen, Angélica Anseel, Frederik Apps, Matthew A. J. Asadli, Chillar Awuor, Fonda Jane Azevedo, Flavio Basaglia, Piero Bélanger, Jocelyn J. Berger, Sebastian Bertin, Paul Białek, Michał Bialobrzeska, Olga Blaya-Burgo, Michelle Bleize, Daniëlle N. M. Bø, Simen Boecker, Lea Boggio, Paulo S. Borau, Sylvie Bos, Björn Bouguettaya, Ayoub Brauer, Markus Brick, Cameron Brik, Tymofii Briker, Roman Brosch, Tobias Buchel, Ondrej Buonauro, Daniel Butalia, Radhika Carvacho, Héctor Chamberlain, Sarah A. E. Chan, Hang-Yee Chow, Dawn Chung, Dongil Cian, Luca Cohen-Eick, Noa Contreras-Huerta, Luis Sebastian Contu, Davide Cristea, Vladimir Cutler, Jo D'Ottone, Silvana De Keersmaecker, Jonas Delcourt, Sarah Delouvée, Sylvain Diel, Kathi Douglas, Benjamin D. Drupp, Moritz A. Dubey, Shreya Ekmanis, Jānis Elbaek, Christian T. Elsherif, Mahmoud Engelhard, Iris M. Escher, Yannik A. Etienne, Tom W. Farage, Laura Farias, Ana Rita Feuerriegel, Stefan Findor, Andrej Freira, Lucia Friese, Malte Gains, Neil Philip Gallyamova, Albina Geiger, Sandra J. Genschow, Oliver Gjoneska, Biljana Gkinopoulos, Theofilos Goldberg, Beth Goldenberg, Amit Gradidge, Sarah Grassini, Simone Gray, Kurt Grelle, Sonja Griffin, Siobhán M. Grigoryan, Lusine Grigoryan, Ani Grigoryev, Dmitry Gruber, June Guilaran, Johnrev Hadar, Britt Hahnel, Ulf J.J. Halperin, Eran Harvey, Annelie J. Haugestad, Christian A. P. Herman, Aleksandra M. Hershfield, Hal E. Himichi, Toshiyuki Hine, Donald W. Hofmann, Wilhelm Howe, Lauren Huaman-Chulluncuy, Enma T. Huang, Guanxiong Ishii, Tatsunori Ito, Ayahito Jia, Fanli Jost, John T. Jovanović, Veljko Jurgiel, Dominika Kácha, Ondřej Kankaanpää, Reeta Kantorowicz, Jaroslaw Kantorowicz-Reznichenko, Elena Kaplan Mintz, Keren Kaya, Ilker Kaya, Ozgur Khachatryan, Narine Klas, Anna Klein, Colin Klöckner, Christian A. Koppel, Lina Kosachenko, Alexandra I. Kothe, Emily J. Krebs, Ruth Krosch, Amy R. Krouwel, Andre P.M. Kyrychenko, Yara Lagomarsino, Maria Lamm, Claus Lange, Florian Lee Cunningham, Julia Lees, Jeffrey Leung, Tak Yan Levy, Neil Lockwood, Patricia L. Longoni, Chiara López Ortega, Alberto Loschelder, David D. Lu, Jackson G. Luo, Yu Luomba, Joseph Lutz, Annika E. Majer, Johann M. Markowitz, Ezra Marsh, Abigail A. Mascarenhas, Karen Louise Mbilingi, Bwambale Mbungu, Winfred McHugh, Cillian Meijers, Marijn H.C. Mercier, Hugo Mhagama, Fenant Laurent Michalakis, Katerina Mikus, Nace Milliron, Sarah Mitkidis, Panagiotis Monge-Rodríguez, Fredy S. Mora, Youri L. Moreau, David Motoki, Kosuke Moyano, Manuel Mus, Mathilde Navajas, Joaquin Nguyen, Tam Luong Nguyen, Dung Minh Nguyen, Trieu Niemi, Laura Nijssen, Sari R. R. Nilsonne, Gustav Nitschke, Jonas P. Nockur, Laila Okura, Ritah Öner, Sezin Özdoğru, Asil Ali Palumbo, Helena Panagopoulos, Costas Panasiti, Maria Serena Pärnamets, Philip Paruzel-Czachura, Mariola Pavlov, Yuri G. Payán-Gómez, César Pearson, Adam R. Pereira da Costa, Leonor Petrowsky, Hannes M. Pfattheicher, Stefan Pham, Nhat Tan Ponizovskiy, Vladimir Pretus, Clara Rêgo, Gabriel G. Reimann, Ritsaart Rhoads, Shawn A. Riano-Moreno, Julian Richter, Isabell Röer, Jan Philipp Rosa-Sullivan, Jahred Ross, Robert M. Sabherwal, Anandita Saito, Toshiki Sarrasin, Oriane Say, Nicolas Schmid, Katharina Schmitt, Michael T. Schoenegger, Philipp Scholz, Christin Schug, Mariah G. Schulreich, Stefan Shreedhar, Ganga Shuman, Eric Sivan, Smadar Sjåstad, Hallgeir Soliman, Meikel Soud, Katia Spampatti, Tobia Sparkman, Gregg Spasovski, Ognen Stanley, Samantha K. Stern, Jessica A. Strahm, Noel Suko, Yasushi Sul, Sunhae Syropoulos, Stylianos Taylor, Neil C. Tedaldi, Elisa Tinghög, Gustav Huynh, Luu Duc Toan Travaglino, Giovanni Antonio Tsakiris, Manos Tüter, İlayda Tyrala, Michael Uluğ, Özden Melis Urbanek, Arkadiusz Valko, Danila van der Linden, Sander van Schie, Kevin van Stekelenburg, Aart Vanags, Edmunds Västfjäll, Daniel Vesely, Stepan Vintr, Jáchym Vranka, Marek Wanguche, Patrick Otuo Willer, Robb Wojcik, Adrian Dominik Xu, Rachel Yadav, Anjali Zawisza, Magdalena Zhao, Xian Zhao, Jiaying Żuk, Dawid Van Bavel, Jay J. |
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| dc.identifier.none.fl_str_mv | Vlasceanu, M., Doell, K. C., Bak-Coleman, J. B., Todorova, B., Berkebile-Weinberg, M. M., Grayson, S. J., Patel, Y., Goldwert, D., Pei, Y., Chakroff, A., Pronizius, E., van den Broek, K. L., Vlasceanu, D., Constantino, S., Morais, M. J., Schumann, P., Rathje, S., Fang, K., Aglioti, S. M., … Van Bavel, J. J. (2024). Addressing climate change with behavioral science: A global intervention tournament in 63 countries. Science Advances, 10(6). https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adj5778 2375-2548 https://hdl.handle.net/11073/33535 10.1126/sciadv.adj5778 |
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| dc.publisher.none.fl_str_mv | American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) |
| dc.relation.none.fl_str_mv | https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adj5778 |
| dc.rights.none.fl_str_mv | Attribution 4.0 International http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
| dc.title.none.fl_str_mv | Addressing climate change with behavioral science: A global intervention tournament in 63 countries |
| dc.type.none.fl_str_mv | Published version Peer-Reviewed info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
| description | Effectively reducing climate change requires marked, global behavior change. However, it is unclear which strategies are most likely to motivate people to change their climate beliefs and behaviors. Here, we tested 11 expert-crowdsourced interventions on four climate mitigation outcomes: beliefs, policy support, information sharing intention, and an effortful tree-planting behavioral task. Across 59,440 participants from 63 countries, the interventions’ effectiveness was small, largely limited to nonclimate skeptics, and differed across outcomes: Beliefs were strengthened mostly by decreasing psychological distance (by 2.3%), policy support by writing a letter to a future-generation member (2.6%), information sharing by negative emotion induction (12.1%), and no intervention increased the more effortful behavior—several interventions even reduced tree planting. Last, the effects of each intervention differed depending on people’s initial climate beliefs. These findings suggest that the impact of behavioral climate interventions varies across audiences and target behaviors. |
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| spelling | Addressing climate change with behavioral science: A global intervention tournament in 63 countriesVlasceanu, MadalinaDoell, Kimberly C.Bak-Coleman, Joseph B.Todorova, BoryanaBerkebile-Weinberg, Michael M.Grayson, Samantha J.Patel, YashGoldwert, DaniellePei, YifeiChakroff, AlekPronizius, Ekaterinavan den Broek, Karlijn L.Vlasceanu, DenisaConstantino, SaraMorais, Michael J.Schumann, PhilippRathje, SteveFang, KeAglioti, Salvatore MariaAlfano, MarkAlvarado-Yepez, Andy J.Andersen, AngélicaAnseel, FrederikApps, Matthew A. J.Asadli, ChillarAwuor, Fonda JaneAzevedo, FlavioBasaglia, PieroBélanger, Jocelyn J.Berger, SebastianBertin, PaulBiałek, MichałBialobrzeska, OlgaBlaya-Burgo, MichelleBleize, Daniëlle N. M.Bø, SimenBoecker, LeaBoggio, Paulo S.Borau, SylvieBos, BjörnBouguettaya, AyoubBrauer, MarkusBrick, CameronBrik, TymofiiBriker, RomanBrosch, TobiasBuchel, OndrejBuonauro, DanielButalia, RadhikaCarvacho, HéctorChamberlain, Sarah A. 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However, it is unclear which strategies are most likely to motivate people to change their climate beliefs and behaviors. Here, we tested 11 expert-crowdsourced interventions on four climate mitigation outcomes: beliefs, policy support, information sharing intention, and an effortful tree-planting behavioral task. Across 59,440 participants from 63 countries, the interventions’ effectiveness was small, largely limited to nonclimate skeptics, and differed across outcomes: Beliefs were strengthened mostly by decreasing psychological distance (by 2.3%), policy support by writing a letter to a future-generation member (2.6%), information sharing by negative emotion induction (12.1%), and no intervention increased the more effortful behavior—several interventions even reduced tree planting. Last, the effects of each intervention differed depending on people’s initial climate beliefs. These findings suggest that the impact of behavioral climate interventions varies across audiences and target behaviors.Google JigsawSwiss National Science FoundationDutch Research CouncilEuropean UnionJohn Templeton FoundationNational Council for Scientific and Technological DevelopmentChrist Church College Research CentreDavid Phillips FellowshipJacobs FoundationGerman Research Foundation (DFG)New York University Abu Dhabi (NYUAD)Swiss Federal Office of EnergyEnergy, Economy, and Society ProgramBelgian National Fund for Scientific Research (FRS-FNRS)Faculty of Psychology, SWPS UniversityRadboud University Behavioral Science InstituteLeuphana University LüneburgUniversity of BirminghamUniversity of Geneva Faculty Seed FundingPomona CollegeCenter for Social Conflict and Cohesion StudiesCenter for Intercultural and Indigenous ResearchNational Research Foundation of KoreaDarden School of BusinessKieskompas-Election CompassNational Agency of Research and DevelopmentDutch Science Foundation (NWO)Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO)Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT), PortugalPortuguese Ministry of Science, Technology and Higher EducationSlovak Research and Development Agency (APVV)James S. McDonnell FoundationMetaFundación Universidad Torcuato Di TellaThammasat UniversityHSE UniversityARU Centre for Societies and GroupsUniversity of StavangerCenter for the Science of Moral UnderstandingUniversity of Colorado BoulderKochi University of TechnologyRuhr University Bochum (RUB)College of Arts and Sciences, Seton Hall UniversityNicolaus Copernicus UniversitySectorplan Social Sciences and Humanities (Netherlands)Erasmus Centre of Empirical Legal Studies (ECELS)Erasmus School of LawErasmus University RotterdamAmerican University of SharjahCentre for Social and Early Emotional Development (SEED)Australian National University (ANU)Research Council of NorwayFAIR Centre for Experimental Research on Fairness, Inequality and RationalityAarhus University Research FoundationSocial Perception and Intergroup Inequality Lab, Cornell UniversityUniversity of ViennaAustrian Science Fund (FWF)Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)National Geographic SocietyUniversity of Michigan Ross School of BusinessClemson University Media Forensics HubNorwegian Retailers' Environment FundAustralian Research Council (ARC)Medical Research Council (UK)Wellcome TrustRoyal SocietyJFRAPSocial Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC)Simon Fraser University Psychology DepartmentGU Internal FundingSão Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP)Shell BrasilBrazil's National Oil, Natural Gas and Biofuels Agency (ANP)French National Research Agency (ANR)NOMIS FoundationApplied Moral Psychology Lab, Cornell UniversityUniversidad Peruana Cayetano HerediaRiksbankens JubileumsfondEuropean Research Council (ERC)UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)Institute of Psychology, University of Silesia in KatowiceNational Science Foundation (NSF)Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)Institute of Psychology, University of LausanneFaculty of Social and Political Sciences, University of LausanneUniversitat Ramon LlullEsade Business SchoolUniversity of St AndrewsUniversität HamburgFaculty of Health, Aarhus UniversitySchool of Medicine and Psychology, Australian National UniversitySwedish Research CouncilGovernment of the Russian FederationCooperatio Program MCOMStanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil SocietyCanada Research Chairs ProgramAmerican Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)2026-06-22T12:16:50Z2026-06-22T12:16:50Z09/02/2024Published versionPeer-Reviewedinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfVlasceanu, M., Doell, K. C., Bak-Coleman, J. B., Todorova, B., Berkebile-Weinberg, M. M., Grayson, S. J., Patel, Y., Goldwert, D., Pei, Y., Chakroff, A., Pronizius, E., van den Broek, K. L., Vlasceanu, D., Constantino, S., Morais, M. J., Schumann, P., Rathje, S., Fang, K., Aglioti, S. M., … Van Bavel, J. J. (2024). Addressing climate change with behavioral science: A global intervention tournament in 63 countries. Science Advances, 10(6). https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adj57782375-2548https://hdl.handle.net/11073/3353510.1126/sciadv.adj5778enhttps://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adj5778Attribution 4.0 Internationalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/oai:repository.aus.edu:11073/335352026-06-23T06:59:12Z |
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| title | Addressing climate change with behavioral science: A global intervention tournament in 63 countries |
| title_full | Addressing climate change with behavioral science: A global intervention tournament in 63 countries |
| title_fullStr | Addressing climate change with behavioral science: A global intervention tournament in 63 countries |
| title_full_unstemmed | Addressing climate change with behavioral science: A global intervention tournament in 63 countries |
| title_short | Addressing climate change with behavioral science: A global intervention tournament in 63 countries |
| title_sort | Addressing climate change with behavioral science: A global intervention tournament in 63 countries |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/11073/33535 |