Differentiated responsibilities and prosocial behaviour in climate change mitigation

Kline, Reuben; Seltzer, Nicholas; Lukinova, Evgeniya; Bynum, Autumn

doi:10.1038/s41562-018-0418-0

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“…We contribute to the increasing literature on behavioral dynamics in intra-and intergenerational climate change dilemmas [54][55][56]. In line with previous research on intra-generational conflicts of climate change mitigation [10], our results indicate that individuals are willing to contribute in order to avoid the substantial risks associated with climate change.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 87%

Nudging Climate Change Mitigation: A Laboratory Experiment with Inter-Generational Public Goods

Böhm

Gürerk

Lauer

2020

Games

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To avoid the dangerous consequences of climate change, humans need to overcome two intertwined conflicts. First, they must deal with an intra-generational conflict that emerges from the allocation of costs of climate change mitigation among different actors of the current generation. Second, they face an inter-generational conflict that stems from the higher costs for long-term mitigation measures, particularly helping future generations, compared to the short-term actions aimed at adapting to the immediate effects of climate change, benefiting mostly the current generation. We devise a novel game to study this multi-level conflict and investigate individuals’ behavior in a lab experiment. We find that, although individuals reach sufficient cooperation levels to avoid adverse consequences for their own generation, they contribute more to cheaper short-term than to costlier long-term measures, to the detriment of future generations. Simple “nudge” interventions, however, may alter this pattern considerably. We find that changing the default contribution level to the inter-generational welfare optimum increases long-term contributions. Moreover, providing individuals with the possibility to commit themselves to inter-generational solidarity leads to an even stronger increase in long-term contributions. Nevertheless, the results also suggest that nudges alone may not be enough to induce inter-generationally optimal contributions.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 87%

Nudging Climate Change Mitigation: A Laboratory Experiment with Inter-Generational Public Goods

Böhm

Gürerk

Lauer

2020

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“…Especially with respect to responsibility, a major obstacle to global cooperation in order to mitigate climate change and biosphere degradation is asymmetries between actors (13,14,25,26,65). Costs, benefits, and impacts are not equally distributed.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Caring for the future can turn tragedy into comedy for long-term collective action under risk of collapse

Barfuß

Donges

Vasconcelos

et al. 2020

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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We will need collective action to avoid catastrophic climate change, and this will require valuing the long term as well as the short term. Shortsightedness and uncertainty have hindered progress in resolving this collective action problem and have been recognized as important barriers to cooperation among humans. Here, we propose a coupled social–ecological dilemma to investigate the interdependence of three well-identified components of this cooperation problem: 1) timescales of collapse and recovery in relation to time preferences regarding future outcomes, 2) the magnitude of the impact of collapse, and 3) the number of actors in the collective. We find that, under a sufficiently severe and time-distant collapse, how much the actors care for the future can transform the game from a tragedy of the commons into one of coordination, and even into a comedy of the commons in which cooperation dominates. Conversely, we also find conditions under which even strong concern for the future still does not transform the problem from tragedy to comedy. For a large number of participating actors, we find that the critical collapse impact, at which these game regime changes happen, converges to a fixed value of collapse impact per actor that is independent of the enhancement factor of the public good, which is usually regarded as the driver of the dilemma. Our results not only call for experimental testing but also help explain why polarization in beliefs about human-caused climate change can threaten global cooperation agreements.

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“…Actions that benefit other people, as well as ways to respond to people who show sympathy, cooperation, help, assistance, altruism [9]. Volitional behavior aimed at the benefit of others, which is of obvious importance for the qualitative interaction between people and groups [10]. Actions aimed at improving the situation of help recipient, but it is limited to situations in which the subject of the action has no professional duties motivation, and the people themselves (and not the organization) become the object of help [11].…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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Analysis of Russians’ Views on Personal Qualities as a Basis for Prosocial Safe Behavior Factors’ Identification

Kislyakov¹,

Shmeleva²

2020

TOPSYJ

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Background: Currently, the research on social psychology, security psychology, professional psychology and environmental psychology indicates that prosocial behavior is a predictor or factor for ensuring security (for individuals, groups, societies, and the environment). This indicates the need to justify the category of safe prosocial behavior of individuals. Aim: This research focused on the identification of any psychological factor of safe prosocial behavior of an individual based on Russians’ views on personal qualities in advancing national interests and socio-cultural transformations. Methods: The theoretical and methodological basis of the study was the theory of social norms of pro-social behavior. To examine the Russians’ ideas of the safe prosocial behavior, we conducted empirical research, which involved 583 people. In the first stage, we formed a list of possible qualities and motives (descriptors) of the safe prosocial human behavior with the use of focus groups. In the second stage, we used a special questionnaire in order to construct a subjective semantic space of the personal safe prosocial behavior based on the semantic differential method. Results: Results of the factor analysis to identify factors affecting safe prosocial behavior in modern society allowed determining seven factors. Conclusion: The obtained data provide an understanding that the safe prosocial human behavior appears to be mainly motivated by institutional and moral norms and is characterized by resources that ensure the psychological stability and well-being of an individual. Norms of collective behavior, religious norms and norms of following national traditions seemed to be dominant in affecting the behavior of individuals.

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Differentiated responsibilities and prosocial behaviour in climate change mitigation

Cited by 19 publications

References 41 publications

Nudging Climate Change Mitigation: A Laboratory Experiment with Inter-Generational Public Goods

Nudging Climate Change Mitigation: A Laboratory Experiment with Inter-Generational Public Goods

Caring for the future can turn tragedy into comedy for long-term collective action under risk of collapse

Analysis of Russians’ Views on Personal Qualities as a Basis for Prosocial Safe Behavior Factors’ Identification

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