What motivates collective action, political participation, or civic engagement?
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Madalina Vlasceanu, PhD
Only ONE consistently predicted intervention effectiveness:
The interventions’ specificity to the outcomes measured.
No other features we tested here (attentional ease, presence of images, videos, or questions, length, conceptual construction, etc.) predicted interventions' effect sizes.
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Madalina Vlasceanu, PhD
Do you think negative emotions about climate change hamper climate-friendly beliefs and behaviors? 🚨 Our newly published paper might be for you: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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www.sciencedirect.com
New study finds that emphasizing collective efficacy (people's ability to catalyze large-scale change) is very effective in catalyzing behavioural change.
As you can see from my pinned post, I'm a big fan of simple messages that can mobilize public support for climate action!
What makes behavioral interventions work beyond the psychological theory they implement? Their format, level of engagement, delivery modality?
In a new paper analyzing 274 interventions from 15 megastudies (4.1M+ participants), we tested 19 features: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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How to Advance Climate Solutions Despite Political Setbacks | Psychology Today www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/clim...
Abstract. Addressing climate change depends on large-scale system changes, which require public advocacy. Here, we identified and tested 17 expert-crowdsou
Climate setbacks aren’t fate; they’re signals to mobilize visible public will, pairing credible hope with concrete action to turn widespread concern into sustained political power.
