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American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Science advances

, volume 10 , issue 6

Addressing climate change with behavioral science: A global intervention tournament in 63 countries

Madalina Vlasceanu ¹

K. C. Doell ^{1, 2}

Joseph B. Bak-Coleman ^{3, 4}

Boryana Todorova ²

Michael M. Berkebile-Weinberg ¹

Samantha J. Grayson ⁵

Yash Patel ¹

Danielle Goldwert ¹

Yifei Pei ¹

Alek Chakroff ⁶

Ekaterina Pronizius ²

Karlijn L Van Den Broek ⁷

Denisa Vlasceanu ⁸

Sara M Constantino ^{9, 10}

Michael J. Morais ¹¹

Philipp Schumann ¹²

Steve Rathje ¹

Ke Fang ¹

Salvatore Aglioti ^{13, 14}

Mark Alfano ¹⁵

Andy Alvarado Yepez ¹⁶

Angélica Andersen ¹⁷

Frederik Anseel ¹⁸

Matthew A. J. Apps ¹⁹

Chillar Asadli ²⁰

Fonda Jane Awuor ²¹

Flávio Azevedo ²²

Piero Basaglia ²³

Jocelyn J. Bélanger ²⁴

Sebastian Berger ²⁵

Paul Bertin ^{26, 27}

Michał Białek ²⁸

Olga Bialobrzeska ²⁹

Michelle Blaya-Burgo ³⁰

Daniëlle N M Bleize ³¹

Simen Bø ³²

Lea Boecker ³³

Paulo Boggio ³⁴

Sylvie Borau ³⁵

Björn Bos ³⁶

Ayoub Bouguettaya ³⁷

Michael Brauer ³⁸

Cameron Brick ^{39, 40}

Tymofii Brik ⁴¹

Roman Briker ⁴²

T Brosch ⁴³

Ondrej Buchel ⁴⁴

Daniel Buonauro ⁴⁵

Radhika Butalia ⁴⁶

Héctor Carvacho ⁴⁷

Sarah A. E. Chamberlain ⁴⁸

Hang-Yee Chan ⁴⁹

Dawn Chow ⁵⁰

Dongil Chung ⁵¹

Luca Cian ⁵²

Noa Cohen-Eick ^{53, 54}

Luis Sebastian Contreras-Huerta ^{19, 55}

Davide Contu ⁵⁶

Vladimir Cristea ⁵⁷

Jo Cutler ¹⁹

Silvana D'Ottone ⁵⁸

Jonas De keersmaecker ^{59, 60}

Sarah Delcourt ⁶¹

Sylvain Delouvée ⁶²

Kathi Diel ⁶³

Benjamin D Douglas ³⁸

Moritz A Drupp ^{23, 64}

Shreya Dubey ⁶⁵

Jānis Ekmanis ⁶⁶

Christian T Elbaek ⁶⁷

Mahmoud M. Elsherif ^{68, 69}

IRIS M ENGELHARD ⁷⁰

Yannik Andrea Escher ⁷¹

Tom W. Etienne ^{57, 72}

Laura Farage ⁷³

Ana Rita Farias ⁷⁴

Stefan Feuerriegel ⁷⁵

Andrej Findor ⁷⁶

Lucia Freira ⁷⁷

Malte Friese ⁶³

Neil Philip Gains ⁷⁸

Albina Gallyamova ⁷⁹

Sandra J. Geiger ⁸⁰

Oliver Genschow ⁸¹

Biljana Gjoneska ⁸²

Theofilos Gkinopoulos ⁸³

Beth Goldberg ⁸⁴

Amit Goldenberg ^{85, 86, 87}

Sarah Gradidge ⁸⁸

Simone Grassini ^{89, 90}

Kurt Gray ⁹¹

Sonja Grelle ⁹²

Siobhán M. Griffin ⁹³

Lusine Grigoryan ⁹⁴

Ani Grigoryan ⁹⁵

Dmitry Grigoryev ⁷⁹

June Gruber ⁹⁶

Johnrev Guilaran ⁹⁷

Britt Hadar ⁹⁸

Ulf J. J. Hahnel ⁹⁹

ERAN HALPERIN ⁵³

Annelie J Harvey ⁸⁸

Christian Andrés Palacios Haugestad ¹⁰⁰

Aleksandra Maria Herman ^{101, 102}

Hal E. Hershfield ¹⁰³

Toshiyuki Himichi ¹⁰⁴

Donald W. Hine ¹⁰⁵

Wilhelm Hofmann ⁹²

Lauren Christine Howe ¹⁰⁶

Enma T. Huaman-Chulluncuy ¹⁰⁷

Guanxiong Huang ¹⁰⁸

Tatsunori Ishii ¹⁰⁹

Ayahito Ito ¹¹⁰

Fanli Jia ¹¹¹

Joanna Sterling ¹

Veljko Jovanović ¹¹²

Dominika Jurgiel ¹¹³

Ondřej Kácha ¹¹⁴

Reeta Kankaanpää ^{115, 116}

Jaroslaw Kantorowicz ¹¹⁷

Elena Kantorowicz‐Reznichenko ¹¹⁸

Keren Kaplan Mintz ^{119, 120}

Ilker Kaya ¹²¹

Ozgur Kaya ¹²¹

Narine Khachatryan ⁹⁵

Anna Klas ¹²²

Colin Klein ¹²³

Christian A. Klöckner ¹²⁴

Lina Koppel ¹²⁵

Alexandra I Kosachenko ¹²⁶

Emily J Kothe ¹²²

Ruth Krebs ¹²⁷

Amy R. Krosch ¹²⁸

Andre P.M. Krouwel ¹²⁹

Yara Kyrychenko ¹³⁰

Maria Lagomarsino ¹³¹

Claus Lamm ²

Florian Lange ⁶¹

Julia Lee Cunningham ¹³²

Jeffrey Lees ^{133, 134}

Tak Yan Leung ¹³⁵

Neil Levy ¹³⁶

Patricia. L. Lockwood ¹⁹

Chiara Longoni ¹³⁷

Alberto López Ortega ¹³⁸

David D. Loschelder ¹³⁹

Jackson G. Lu ¹⁴⁰

Yu Luo ¹⁴¹

Joseph Luomba ¹⁴²

Annika E. Lutz ¹⁴³

Johann M. Majer ¹⁴⁴

Ezra Markowitz ¹⁴⁵

Abigail A. Marsh ¹⁴⁶

Karen Louise Mascarenhas ^{147, 148}

Bwambale Mbilingi ¹⁴⁹

W Mbungu ¹⁵⁰

Cillian McHugh ¹⁵¹

Marijn H C Meijers ¹⁵²

Hugo Mercier ¹⁵³

Fenant Laurent Mhagama ¹⁵⁴

Katerina Michalakis ¹⁵⁵

Nace Mikus ^{156, 157}

Sarah Milliron ¹²⁸

Panagiotis Mitkidis ⁶⁷

Fredy S Monge Rodriguez ¹⁵⁸

Youri L Mora ^{159, 160}

David Moreau ¹⁶¹

Kosuke Motoki ¹⁶²

Manuel Moyano ¹⁶³

Mathilde Mus ¹⁶⁴

Joaquin Navajas ^{165, 166}

Tam Luong Nguyen ¹⁶⁷

Dung Minh Nguyen ¹⁶⁸

Trieu Nguyen ¹⁶⁸

Laura Niemi ¹⁶⁹

Sari R R Nijssen ¹⁷⁰

Gustav Nilsonne ^{171, 172}

Jonas P. Nitschke ²

Laila Nockur ¹⁷³

Ritah Okura ¹⁴⁹

Sezin Öner ¹⁷⁴

Asil Ali Özdoğru ^{175, 176}

Helena Palumbo ¹⁷⁷

Costas Panagopoulos ¹⁷⁸

Maria Serena Panasiti ^{14, 179}

Philip Pärnamets ¹⁸⁰

Mariola Paruzel-Czachura ^{181, 182}

Yuri G. Pavlov ¹⁸³

César Payán-Gómez ¹⁸⁴

Adam R. Pearson ⁴⁵

Leonor Pereira da Costa ¹⁸⁵

Hannes M. Petrowsky ¹⁸⁶

Stefan Pfattheicher ¹⁷³

Nhat M. Pham ¹⁸⁷

Vladimir Ponizovskiy ⁹²

Clara Pretus ¹⁸⁸

Gabriel G. Rego ¹⁸⁹

Ritsaart Willem Peter Reimann ¹³⁶

Shawn A. Rhoads ^{190, 191}

Julián C Riaño Moreno ¹⁹²

I. Richter ¹⁹³

Jan P. Röer ¹⁹⁴

Jahred Rosa-Sullivan ¹⁹⁵

Robert M. Ross ¹³⁶

Anandita Sabherwal ¹⁹⁶

Toshiki Saito ^{197, 198}

Oriane Sarrasin ¹⁹⁹

Nicolas Say ²⁰⁰

Katharina SCHMID ²⁰¹

Michael T. Schmitt ¹⁴³

Philipp Schoenegger ^{202, 203}

Christin Scholz ²⁰⁴

Mariah G Schug ²⁰⁵

Stefan Schulreich ^{206, 207}

Ganga Shreedhar ¹⁹⁶

Eric Shuman ^{1, 85}

Smadar Sivan ²⁰⁸

Hallgeir Sjåstad ³²

Meikel Soliman ²⁰⁹

Katia Soud ^{210, 211}

Tobia Spampatti ^{212, 213}

Gregg Sparkman ²¹⁴

Ognen Spasovski ^{215, 216}

Samantha K. Stanley ²¹⁷

Jessica A. Stern ²¹⁸

Noel Strahm ²⁵

Yasushi Suko ²¹⁹

Sunhae Sul ²²⁰

Stylianos Syropoulos ²²¹

Neil C. Taylor ²²²

Elisa Tedaldi ²²³

Gustav Tinghög ¹²⁵

Luu Duc Toan Huynh ²²⁴

Giovanni A. Travaglino ²²⁵

Manos Tsakiris ¹⁵⁵

İlayda Tüter ²²⁶

Michael Tyrala ²²⁷

Özden Melis Uluğ ²²⁸

Arkadiusz Urbanek ²²⁹

Danila Valko ^{230, 231}

Sander van der Linden ²³²

Kevin Van Schie ²³³

Aart van Stekelenburg ²³⁴

Edmunds Vanags ²³⁵

Daniel Västfjäll ²³⁶

Stepan Vesely ¹²⁴

Jáchym Vintr ¹¹⁴

Marek A. Vranka ²³⁷

Patrick Otuo Wanguche ²¹

Robb Willer ²³⁸

Adrian Wójcik ²³⁹

Rachel Xu ⁸⁴

Anjali Yadav ^{240, 241}

Magdalena Zawisza ⁸⁸

Xian Zhao ²⁴²

Jiaying Zhao ^{141, 243}

Dawid Żuk ²⁴⁴

Rebecca Saxe ^{1, 32, 245}

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Department of Psychology, New York University, New York, NY 10003, USA. |

Department of Cognition, Emotion, and Methods in Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, University of Vienna, Vienna 1010, Austria. |

Craig Newmark Center for Journalism Ethics and Security, Columbia University, New York, NY 10018, USA. |

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Institute for Rebooting Social Media, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA. |

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Department of Psychology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA. |

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San Luis Obispo, CA 93405, USA. |

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Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development, Utrecht University, Utrecht, 3584 CB, Netherlands. |

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Department of Psychology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA. |

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School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs, Northeastern University, Boston, MA 02115, USA. |

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Department of Psychology, Northeastern University, Boston, MA 02115, USA. |

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Amazon, Seattle, WA 98109, USA. |

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Department of Psychology, Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg, Oldenburg 26129, Germany. |

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Santa Lucia Foundation, IRCCS, Rome 179, Italy. |

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Department of Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome 185, Italy. |

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Department of Philosophy, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW 2000, Australia. |

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Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, San Martín de Porres 15102, Peru.

Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia

University of San Martín de Porres

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Post-Graduation Program in Linguistics, Federal University of Paraná, Curitiba 80060150, Brasil. |

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UNSW Business School, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia. |

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Centre for Human Brain Health, School of Psychology, University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK. |

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Psychology Scientific Research Institute, Baku, Azerbaijan. |

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Kenya Marine and Fisheries Research Institute, Kisumu 1881-40100, Kenya. |

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Department of Psychology, University of Groningen, Groningen 9712TS, Netherlands. |

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Department of Economics, University of Hamburg, Hamburg 20146, Germany. |

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Department of Psychology, New York University Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi 129188, United Arab Emirates. |

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Department of Sociology, University of Bern, Bern 3012, Switzerland. |

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LAPCOS, Université Côte d’Azur, Nice 6357, France. |

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Center for Social and Cultural Psychology, Université libre de Bruxelles, Brussels 1050, Belgium. |

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Institute of Psychology, Faculty of Historical and Pedagogical Sciences, University of Wroclaw, Wroclaw 50-120, Poland. |

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Institute of Psychology, SWPS University, Warsaw 03-815, Poland. |

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Department of Psychology, Division of Behavioral & Organizational Sciences, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, NH 91711, USA. |

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Behavioural Science Institute, Radboud University, Nijmegen, 6500 HE, Netherlands. |

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Department of Strategy and Management, Norwegian School of Economics, Bergen 5045, Norway. |

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Department of Economic Psychology, Social Psychology and Experimental Methods, Leuphana University Lüneburg, Lüneburg 21335, Germany. |

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Social and Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, Mackenzie Presbyterian University, Sao Paulo 1241001, Brazil. |

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Toulouse Business School, Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse. Toulouse, 31000, France. |

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Department of Economics, University of Hamburg, Hamburg 20146, Hamburg. |

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School of Psychology, University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK. |

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Department of Psychology, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, WI 53706, USA. |

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Department of Psychology, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, 1018 WT, Netherlands. |

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Department of Psychology, Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences, Elverum 2418, Norway. |

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Policy Research Department, Kyiv School of Economics, Kyiv 2000, Ukraine. |

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Department of Organisation, Strategy, and Entrepreneurship, School of Business and Economics, Maastricht University, Maastricht 6211 LK, Netherlands. |

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Department of Psychology and Swiss Center for Affective Sciences, University of Geneva, Geneva 1205, Switzerland. |

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Institute for Sociology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava 81364, Slovakia. |

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Psychological Science, Pomona College, Claremont, CA 91711, USA. |

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Department of Movement Sciences, KU Leuven, Leuven 3001, Belgium. |

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Escuela de Psicología, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile. |

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School of Psychology, Speech, and Hearing, University of Canterbury, University of Canterbury, Christchurch 8051, New Zealand. |

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Department of Marketing, King’s Business School, King’s College London, London WC2B 4BG, UK. |

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Department of Management and Marketing, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC 3010, Australia. |

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Department of Biomedical Engineering, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, Ulsan 44919, Republic of Korea. |

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Department of Marketing, University of Virginia, Darden School of Business, Charlottesville, VA 22903, USA. |

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Department of Psychology, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem 9190501, Israel. |

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Department of Psychology, University of Groningen, Groningen 9712 CP, Netherlands. |

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Center for Social and Cognitive Neuroscience (CSCN), School of Psychology, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Viña del Mar, Chile. |

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Faculty of Management, Canadian University Dubai, Dubai 117781, United Arab Emirates. |

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Kieskompas–Election Compass, Amsterdam 1052XH, Netherlands. |

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Escuela de Psicología, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago 8331150, Chile. |

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Department of Developmental, Personality and Social Psychology, Ghent University, Ghent 9000, Belgium. |

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Department of People Management and Organization, Esade Business School, Universitat Ramon Llull, Barcelona 8034, Spain.

Ramon Llull University

ESADE Business School (Escuela Superior de Administración y Dirección de Empresas)

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Behavioral Economics and Engineering Group, KU Leuven, Leuven 3000, Belgium. |

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LP3C, Université Rennes 2, Rennes 35000, France. |

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Department of Psychology, Saarland University, Saarbrücken 66123, Germany. |

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Center for Earth System Research and Sustainability (CEN), University of Hamburg, Hamburg 20146, Germany. |

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Amsterdam School of Communication Research, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam 1018WV, Netherlands. |

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Department of Psychology, University of Latvia, Riga, Latvia. |

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Department of Management, Aarhus University, Aarhus 8210, Denmark. |

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Department of Psychology, University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK. |

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Department of Vision Science, University of Leicester, Leicester LE1 7RH, UK. |

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Department of Clinical Psychology, Utrecht University, Utrecht 3508 TC, Netherlands. |

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Institute of Management & Organization, Leuphana University Lüneburg, Lüneburg 21335, Germany. |

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Department of Political Science & Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA. |

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Department of Psychology, University of Salzburg, Salzburg 5020, Salzburg. |

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HEI-Lab: Digital Human-Environment Interaction Labs, Lusófona University, Lisbon 1700, Portugal.

University of Lisbon

Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias

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School of Management, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Munich 80539, Germany. |

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Institute of European Studies and International Relations, Faculty of Social and Economic Sciences, Comenius University Bratislava, Bratislava 82105, Slovakia. |

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Laboratorio de Neurociencia, Escuela de Negocios, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Buenos Aires C1428, Argentina. |

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School of Global Studies, Thammasat University, Bangkok 12121, Thailand. |

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Center for Sociocultural Research, HSE University, Moscow 101000, Russia. |

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Environmental Psychology, Department of Cognition, Emotion, and Methods in Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, University of Vienna, Vienna A-1010, Austria. |

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Institute for Management and Organization, Leuphana University Lüneburg, Lüneburg 21335, Germany. |

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Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Skopje 1000, North Macedonia. |

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Faculty of Philosophy, Institute of Psychology, Faculty of Philosophy, Jagiellonian University, Krakow 30-060, Poland. |

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Jigsaw, Google, New York, NY 10011, USA. |

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Harvard Business School, Harvard University, Boston, MA 2163, USA. |

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Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 2138, USA. |

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Digital Data and Design Institute at Harvard, Harvard University, Allston, Boston, MA 2134, USA. |

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School of Psychology and Sport Science, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge CB1 1PT, UK. |

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Psychosocial Science, University of Bergen, Bergen 5007, Norway. |

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Cognitive and Behavioral Neuroscience Laboratory, University of Stavanger, Stavanger 4021, Norway. |

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Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA. |

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Department of Psychology, Ruhr University Bochum, Bochum 44801, Germany. |

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Department of Psychology, University of Limerick, Limerick V94T9PX, Ireland. |

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Department of Psychology, University of York, York YO10 5DD, UK. |

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Department of Personality Psychology, Yerevan State University, Yerevan 0025, Armenia. |

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Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO 80309, USA. |

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Division of Social Sciences, University of the Philippines Visayas, Miagao 5023, Philippines. |

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Baruch Ivcher School of Psychology, Reichman University, Herzliya 4610101, Israel. |

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Faculty of Psychology, University of Basel, Basel 4055, Switzerland. |

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Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Oslo 373, Norway. |

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Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw 02-093, Poland. |

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School of Psychology, University of Sussex, Falmer BN1 9RH, UK. |

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Anderson School of Management, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA. |

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School of Economics & Management, Kochi University of Technology, Kami City 782-8502, Japan. |

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School of Psychology, Speech and Hearing, University of Canterbury, Christchurch 8051, New Zealand. |

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Department of Business Administration, University of Zurich, Zurich 8032, Switzerland. |

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Department of Psychology, Universidad Nacional de San Antonio Abad del Cusco, Cusco 800, Peru. |

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Department of Media and Communication, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon 999077, Hong Kong, China. |

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Department of Psychology, Japan Women’s University, Tokyo 1128681, Japan. |

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Graduate School of Education, Tohoku University, Sendai 9808576, Japan. |

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Department of Psychology, Seton Hall University, South Orange, NJ 7079, USA. |

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Department of Psychology, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Novi Sad, Novi Sad 21000, Serbia. |

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Doctoral School of Social Sciences, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń 87-100, Poland. |

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Green Dock, Hostivice 25301, Czech Republic. |

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Faculty of Social Sciences, Tampere University, Tampere 33100, Finland. |

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INVEST Research Flagship, University of Turku, Turku 20014, Finland. |

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Institute of Security and Global Affairs, Leiden University, The Hague 2511DP, Netherlands. |

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Erasmus School of Law, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam 3062PA, Netherlands. |

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Shamir Research Institute, University of Haifa, Haifa 3498838, Israel.

University of Haifa

Shamir Medical Center

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Department of Learning and Instructional Sciences, University of Haifa, Haifa, 3498838, Israel. |

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Deparment of Economics, American University of Sharjah, Sharjah 26666, United Arab Emirates. |

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School of Psychology, Deakin University, Geelong, VIC 3216, Australia. |

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School of Philosophy, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 2600, Australia. |

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Department of Psychology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim 7049, Norway. |

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Department of Management and Engineering, Linköping University, Linköping 58183, Sweden. |

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Academic and Research Laboratory of Neurotechnology, Ural Federal University, Ekaterinburg 620075, Russia. |

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Department of Experimental Psychology, Ghent University, Ghent 9000, Belgium. |

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Department of Psychology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14850, USA. |

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Departments of Political Science and Communication Science, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam 1081 HV, Netherlands. |

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Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3EL, UK. |

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Psychology of Sustainability and Behavior Change, University of Basel, Basel 4055, Switzerland. |

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Management & Organizations, Stephen M. Ross School of Business, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48105, USA. |

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John E. Walker Department of Economics, Clemson University, Clemson, SC 29634, USA. |

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Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 8544, USA. |

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School of Business and Creative Industries, University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, BNE 4556, Australia. |

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Department of Philosophy, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia. |

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Department of Marketing, Bocconi University, Milan 20136, Italy. |

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Department of Communication Science, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam 1081 HV, Netherlands. |

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Institute of Management and Organization, Leuphana University of Lüneburg, Lueneburg 21337, Germany. |

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MIT Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 2139, USA. |

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Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4, Canada. |

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Tanzanian Fisheries Research Institute, Mwanza, Tanzania. |

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Department of Psychology, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6, Canada. |

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Department of Social, Organizational, & Economic Psychology, University of Hildesheim, Hildesheim 31141, Germany. |

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Department of Environmental Conservation, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA 1003, USA. |

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Department of Psychology, Georgetown University, Washington, DC 20057, USA. |

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Research Centre for Greenhouse Gas Innovation (RCGI), University of São Paulo, São Paulo 05508-030, Brazil. |

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Department of Social Psychology, Institute of Psychology, University of São Paulo, São Paulo 05508-030, Brazil. |

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National Fisheries Resources Research Institute, Jinja, Uganda. |

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Department of Civil and Water Resources Engineering School of Engineering and Technology, Sokoine University of Agriculture, Morogoro, Tanzania. |

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Department of Psychology, University of Limerick, Limerick V94 T9PX, Ireland. |

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Department of Communication Science, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam 1001 NG, Netherlands. |

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Institut Jean Nicod, Département d’études cognitives, ENS, EHESS, PSL University, CNRS, Paris 75005, France. |

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Tanzania Fisheries Research Institute, Mwanza, Tanzania. |

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Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham TW200EX, UK. |

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School of Culture and Society–Interacting Minds Centre, Aarhus University, Aarhus 8000, Denmark. |

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Neuropsychopharmacology and Biopsychology Unit, University of Vienna, Vienna 1010, Austria. |

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Department of Psychology, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima 2002, Peru. |

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Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique, Brussels 1050, Belgium. |

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Center for Social and Cultural Psychology, Université libre de Bruxelles, Brussels 1312, Belgium. |

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School of Psychology, University of Auckland, Auckland 1010, New Zealand. |

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Department of Management, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-8654, Japan. |

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Department of Psychology, University of Cordoba, Cordoba 14071, Spain. |

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Département d’études cognitives, Institut Jean Nicod ENS, EHESS, PSL University, CNRS, Tokyo 113-8654, Japan. |

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Comisión Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Buenos Aires, Argentina. |

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Laboratorio de Neurociencia, Escuela de Negocios, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Buenos Aires C1428 CABA, Argentina. |

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University of Economics HCMC (UEH), Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. |

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College of Management, National Kaohsiung University of Science and Technology, Kaohsiung 800, Taiwan. |

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Department of Psychology and Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14850, USA. |

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Environmental Psychology, Department of Cognition, Emotion, and Methods in Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, University of Vienna, Vienna 1010, Austria. |

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Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm 17177, Sweden. |

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Department of Psychology, Stockholm University, Stockholm 11419, Sweden. |

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Department of Psychology and Behavioural Sciences, Aarhus University, Aarhus 8000, Denmark. |

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Department of Psychology, Üsküdar University, İstanbul 34662, Turkey. |

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Department of Political Science, Northeastern University, Boston, MA 2115, USA. |

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IRCCS, Santa Lucia Foundation, Rome 142, Italy. |

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Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Division of Psychology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm 171 77, Sweden. |

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Penn Center for Neuroaesthetics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA. |

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Institute of Psychology, University of Silesia in Katowice, Katowice 40-007, Poland. |

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Institute of Medical Psychology and Behavioral Neurobiology, University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen 72076, Germany. |

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Dirección Académica, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Sede de La Paz, Cesar, Colombia. |

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HEI-Lab: Digital Human-Environment Interaction Labs, Lusófona University, Lisbon, Portugal.

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School of Business, International University, Vietnam National University HCMC, Ho Chi Minh City 700000, Vietnam. |

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Department of Psychobioloogy and Methodology of Heath Sciences, Universitat Autònima de Barcelona, Barcelona 8193, Spain. |

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Center for Health and Biological Sciences, Mackenzie Presbyterian University, São Paulo 01221-040, Brazil. |

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Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science, London School of Economics and Political Science, London WC2A 2AE, UK. |

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Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Tokyo 1020083, Japan. |

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Institute of Psychology, University of Lausanne, Lausanne 1015, Switzerland. |

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Department of Management, Prague University of Economics and Business, Prague 13067, Czech Republic. |

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Department of People Management and Organization, Universitat Ramon Llull, Esade Business School, Barcelona 8034, Spain.

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School of Economics & Finance, University of St Andrews, St Andrews KY16 9AJ, UK. |

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School of Philosophical, Anthropological and Film Studies, University of St Andrews, St Andrews KY16 9AJ, UK. |

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Department of Communication, Amsterdam School of Communication Research, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam 1018WV, Netherlands. |

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Department of Psychology, Widener University, Chester 19013, USA. |

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Department of Cognitive Psychology, Universität Hamburg, Hamburg 20146, Germany. |

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Research Center for Digital Transformation, Leuphana University Lüneburg, Lüneburg 21335, Germany. |

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Department of Biomedicine, Aarhus University, Aarhus 8000, Denmark. |

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Department of Psychology, University of Latvia, Riga 1083, Latvia. |

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Division of Psychology, Linköping University, Linköping 58183, Sweden. |

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Department of Marketing Communication and Public Relations, Charles University, Prague 11000, Czech Republic. |

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Department of Sociology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA. |

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Faculty of Psychology, University of Warsaw, Warsaw 00-183, Poland. |

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Center for Neural Science, New York University, New York, NY 10003, USA. |

Publication type: Journal Article

Publication date: 2024-02-09

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Science advances

scimago Q1

wos Q1

SJR: 4.324

CiteScore: 19.6

Impact factor: 12.5

ISSN: 23752548

DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adj5778

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PubMed ID: 38324680

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Abstract

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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Pavlov Yuri

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78 publications, 1 074 citations

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University of Tübingen

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Grigoryev Dmitry

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National Research University Higher School of Economics

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@article{2024_Vlasceanu,

author = {Madalina Vlasceanu and K. C. Doell and Joseph B. Bak-Coleman and Boryana Todorova and Michael M. Berkebile-Weinberg and Samantha J. Grayson and Yash Patel and Danielle Goldwert and Yifei Pei and Alek Chakroff and Ekaterina Pronizius and Karlijn L Van Den Broek and Denisa Vlasceanu and Sara M Constantino and Michael J. Morais and Philipp Schumann and Steve Rathje and Ke Fang and Salvatore Aglioti and Mark Alfano and Andy Alvarado Yepez and Angélica Andersen and Frederik Anseel and Matthew A. J. Apps and Chillar Asadli and Fonda Jane Awuor and Flávio Azevedo and Piero Basaglia and Jocelyn J. Bélanger and Sebastian Berger and Paul Bertin and Michał Białek and Olga Bialobrzeska and Michelle Blaya-Burgo and Daniëlle N M Bleize and Simen Bø and Lea Boecker and Paulo Boggio and Sylvie Borau and Björn Bos and Ayoub Bouguettaya and Michael Brauer and Cameron Brick and Tymofii Brik and Roman Briker and T Brosch and Ondrej Buchel and Daniel Buonauro and Radhika Butalia and Héctor Carvacho and others},

title = {Addressing climate change with behavioral science: A global intervention tournament in 63 countries},

journal = {Science advances},

year = {2024},

volume = {10},

publisher = {American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)},

month = {feb},

url = {https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adj5778},

number = {6},

doi = {10.1126/sciadv.adj5778}

}

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