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DOI	10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2021.102440
	Political ideology and climate change-mitigating behaviors: Insights from fixed world beliefs
	Chan E.Y.; Faria A.A.
发表日期	2022
ISSN	0959-3780
卷号	72
英文摘要	Political conservatives are less likely to adopt climate change-mitigating behaviors, at least compared to their politically liberal counterparts. There thus have been extensive research explaining the so-called left–right divide. In the current research, we propose and test a novel explanation for this divide within the United States. Specifically, it is hypothesized that conservatives are more likely to see the world as fixed and unmalleable, in the sense that what they (as human beings) do to it will have little impact on diminishing the impacts of climate change. This perception and consequence of behavior should be independent of whether or not conservatives believe that global climate change is real and happening. In a study with 1,096 Americans, we find evidence for our hypotheses. Mediation analyses show that greater political conservatism predicts fewer climate change-mitigating behaviors due to greater fixed world beliefs and, consequently, lower perceptions of instrumentality of one's actions to fight climate change, independent of climate change beliefs. Our work provides the first empirical evidence for a novel insight into why conservatives are less likely to act against climate change. Doing so, we also discuss the theoretical and practical contributions. © 2021 Elsevier Ltd
关键词	Climate change Fixed worlds beliefs Instrumentality Political conservatism
语种	英语
scopus关键词	behavior; climate change; global climate; mitigation; perception; political ideology; United States
来源期刊	Global Environmental Change
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/249532
作者单位	College of Health and Human Sciences, Purdue University, United States
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Chan E.Y.,Faria A.A.. Political ideology and climate change-mitigating behaviors: Insights from fixed world beliefs[J],2022,72.
APA	Chan E.Y.,&Faria A.A..(2022).Political ideology and climate change-mitigating behaviors: Insights from fixed world beliefs.Global Environmental Change,72.
MLA	Chan E.Y.,et al."Political ideology and climate change-mitigating behaviors: Insights from fixed world beliefs".Global Environmental Change 72(2022).