Consumer acceptance of products from carbon capture and utilization

Lutzke, Lauren; Árvai, Joseph

doi:10.1007/s10584-021-03110-3

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“…How people perceive and then respond (e.g., via measures of acceptability or behavior) to all manner of risks—for example, climate change (Shi, Visschers, Siegrist, & Arvai, 2016), food (Segrè Cohen, Love, Nace, & Árvai, 2020), geoengineering (Visschers, Shi, Siegrist, & Arvai, 2017), nuclear power (de Groot et al. 2020), novel technologies (Lutzke & Árvai, 2021), and so on—has been studied extensively. However, it has been exceedingly rare that researchers are presented with an opportunity to study risk perceptions and behaviors in a context that is not only significant and salient, but one that affects virtually every living human at the same point in time.…”

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I Think, Therefore I Act: The Influence of Critical Reasoning Ability on Trust and Behavior During the COVID‐19 Pandemic

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Actively open‐minded thinking (AOT) operates in three dimensions: it serves as a norm accounting for how one should search for and use information in judgment and decision making; it is a thinking style that one may adopt in accordance with the norm; and it sets standards for evaluating the thinking of others, particularly the trustworthiness of sources that claim authority. With the first and third dimensions in mind, we explore how AOT influences trust in public health experts, risk perceptions, and compliance with recommended behaviors aimed at slowing the spread and severity of the COVID‐19 pandemic. Using survey data from a nationally representative sample of Americans (N = 857), we tested whether AOT will lead people to place greater trust public health experts (H1). Because these experts have been consistently messaging that COVID‐19 is a real and serious threat to public health, we also hypothesized that trust in experts would be positively associated with high perceived risk (H2), which should have a positive influence on (self‐reported) compliance with CDC recommendations (H3). And because AOT is a self‐directed thinking style, we also expected it to directly influence risk perceptions and, by extension, compliance (H4). Our results support all four hypotheses. We discuss the implications of these results for how risk communication and risk management efforts are designed and practiced.

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“…Psychological practice on climate change encompasses both mitigation and adaptation. For mitigation, psychologists’ work includes helping individuals, households, organizations, and communities alter the types and amounts of energy they use; contributing to the development and implementation of new technologies that produce lower levels of greenhouse gas emissions; and working with governments, businesses, and other institutions to design policies, environments, and processes that lead to lower emissions (Lutzke & Árvai, 2021; Sintov & Schultz, 2015; Whitmarsh et al, 2021; Wolske & Stern, 2018). Such efforts may involve, for example, working with communities to modify the opportunities and incentives in people’s environments that influence their patterns of energy use or helping to plan and manage organizational change to support new work or travel patterns or adoption of new technologies (Cambridge Sustainability Commission on Scaling Behaviour Change, 2021; Unsworth et al, 2021).…”

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Addressing the climate crisis: An action plan for psychologists (summary).

2022

American Psychologist

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Psychologists have conducted valuable work on the climate crisis and can make even greater contributions to understanding the crisis, mitigating and adapting to climate change, and achieving climate justice. This summary of the report from the American Psychological Association’s (APA’s) Task Force on Climate Change examines the multiple roles psychologists play in research, practice, education, advocacy, and communications related to the climate crisis and how APA can facilitate expansion of psychologists’ work in these domains. The task force recommends that APA pursue a set of activities that will both (a) strengthen the field by encouraging a larger number of psychologists, across all specializations, to work on climate change and (b) broaden the impact of psychologists’ work on climate change by supporting their engagement and collaborations with other fields and sectors. Further, the task force offers recommendations for how APA can help mitigate climate change by improving its own energy use and sustainability practices and encouraging improvements by other organizations and the public.

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“…Finally, a few studies have started to build a bridge between the evaluation of CCU as a technology and the resulting products. Lutzke and Árvai (2021) found that for carbonized beverages, the source from which the CO 2 is captured can influence the willingness to use a resulting CO 2 -based product. In this case, an increased negative evaluation of CCU also decreased the product's acceptance.…”

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Two Sides of the Same Coin—Explaining the Acceptance of CO2-Based Fuels for Aviation Using PLS-SEM by Considering the Production and Product Evaluation

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In the present study, we studied the acceptance of CO2-based fuels for aviation as a product manufactured using Carbon Capture and Utilization (CCU). CCU can be regarded as the cornerstone for a circular approach. We focused on understanding whether the evaluation of CCU as a production method is related to the social acceptance of the resulting product. We applied an empirical quantitative approach using an online questionnaire targeted at German, Spanish, Dutch, and Norwegian respondents (N = 2,187). For both CCU and the fuel, lay perceptions in terms of perceived benefits and barriers were assessed, as well as their affective evaluation. Additionally, the acceptance of the end-product was surveyed. Using partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM), we gained a better understanding of how the acceptance of CO2-based fuels for aviation is formed. We found that the evaluation of CCU was mainly indirectly related to the acceptance of the product through relationships with the evaluation of the fuels. The perception of the benefits of CCU did affect the benefit perception of CO2-based fuels the most, followed closely by the affective evaluation of the fuels. For the perception of the barriers of CO2-based fuels, the perceived barriers of CCU were again the strongest predictor, followed by the affective evaluation of the fuels. We identified a moderate predictive power for the acceptance of CO2-based fuels. The relationship with the perceived benefits of the fuels was the most relevant, followed by barrier perceptions, the affective evaluation of the fuels, and finally the benefit perception of CCU. Overall, the findings yield first insights into the role of the evaluation of CCU and CO2-based fuels for aviation for the formation of the product’s acceptance. The outcomes are useful for informing the product’s and CCU’s technical development and policy making. Additionally, they aid in the design of public information about CCU and support the development of sensible communication strategies for the successful market roll-out of CCU and CO2-based fuels.

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Consumer acceptance of products from carbon capture and utilization

Cited by 14 publications

References 36 publications

I Think, Therefore I Act: The Influence of Critical Reasoning Ability on Trust and Behavior During the COVID‐19 Pandemic

I Think, Therefore I Act: The Influence of Critical Reasoning Ability on Trust and Behavior During the COVID‐19 Pandemic

Addressing the climate crisis: An action plan for psychologists (summary).

Two Sides of the Same Coin—Explaining the Acceptance of CO2-Based Fuels for Aviation Using PLS-SEM by Considering the Production and Product Evaluation

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