Addressing climate change with behavioral science: A global intervention tournament in 63 countries
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name: Lee Cunningham, Julia
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name: Carvacho, Héctor
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name: Markowitz, Ezra
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name: Wojcik, Adrian Dominik
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name: Mitkidis, Panagiotis
name: Huang, Guanxiong
name: Lockwood, Patricia L
name: Tyrala, Michael
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name: Delouvée, Sylvain
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name: Chow, Dawn
name: Vlasceanu, Denisa
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name: Haugestad, Christian A P
name: Huynh, Luu Duc Toan
name: Bos, Björn
name: Klein, Colin
name: Żuk, Dawid
name: Griffin, Siobhán M
name: Vlasceanu, Madalina
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name: Pavlov, Yuri G
name: Jurgiel, Dominika
name: Nilsonne, Gustav
name: Özdoğru, Asil Ali
name: Tedaldi, Elisa
name: Białek, Michał
name: Contu, Davide
name: Palumbo, Helena
name: Stern, Jessica A
name: Wanguche, Patrick Otuo
name: Lees, Jeffrey
name: Harvey, Annelie J
name: Bialobrzeska, Olga
name: Tinghög, Gustav
name: Pretus, Clara
name: Goldenberg, Amit
name: Etienne, Tom W
name: Rosa-Sullivan, Jahred
name: Blaya-Burgo, Michelle
name: Halperin, Eran
name: Gallyamova, Albina
name: Soud, Katia
name: Pronizius, Ekaterina
name: Monge-Rodríguez, Fredy S
Publisher: name: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
Year: 2024

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.