TY - JOUR
T1 - Motivation and climate change
T2 - A review
AU - Brick, Cameron
AU - Bosshard, Anna
AU - Whitmarsh, Lorraine
N1 - Funding Information:
We thank Nathaniel Geiger for input on the BUCkET model and Gary J. Lewis and Michael Barlev for the conceptual feedback.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 The Author(s)
Copyright:
Copyright 2021 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 The Author(s)
PY - 2021/12/31
Y1 - 2021/12/31
N2 - This paper reviews motivations people experience about climate change and integrates recent findings into the BUCkET model of core social goals. We argue that environmentalism is not the main cause of thoughts or behaviors about climate change. Rather, the evolved social needs for Belongingness, Understanding, Control, self-Enhancement, and Trust are more practical intervention targets than the attempt to create environmentalist beliefs or identities. We used database searches to identify the key research areas on motivation and climate change and synthesized articles into the BUCkET model. This reveals some limiting assumptions of previous approaches and suggests the effectiveness of targeting existing motives rather than fostering new values or worldviews.
AB - This paper reviews motivations people experience about climate change and integrates recent findings into the BUCkET model of core social goals. We argue that environmentalism is not the main cause of thoughts or behaviors about climate change. Rather, the evolved social needs for Belongingness, Understanding, Control, self-Enhancement, and Trust are more practical intervention targets than the attempt to create environmentalist beliefs or identities. We used database searches to identify the key research areas on motivation and climate change and synthesized articles into the BUCkET model. This reveals some limiting assumptions of previous approaches and suggests the effectiveness of targeting existing motives rather than fostering new values or worldviews.
KW - Attitude-behavior gap
KW - Environmentalism
KW - Knowledge deficit model
KW - Motivation
KW - Proenvironmental behavior
KW - Prosociality
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85105573981&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.copsyc.2021.04.001
DO - 10.1016/j.copsyc.2021.04.001
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:85105573981
SN - 2352-250X
VL - 42
SP - 82
EP - 88
JO - Current Opinion in Psychology
JF - Current Opinion in Psychology
ER -
