Fear, hope, anger, and guilt in climate activism

Kleres, Jochen; Wettergren, Åsa

doi:10.1080/14742837.2017.1344546

Cited by 187 publications

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“…Though our intervention had a substantive effect on the probability of people becoming more active to halt climate change, this effect was entirely mediated through anger. This aligns with predictions made by theories of political action that emphasize the central role of emotions, and anger in particular, on behavior (Jasper 2011, 2014, Kleres and Wettergren 2016. Our research therefore suggests that illustrating the immediate and local impacts of climate change may provide motivation for people to support and adopt ambitious climate change responses, whether in terms of individual behavioral change or climate change policies.…”

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confidence: 87%

“…Anxiety tends to cause people to distance themselves from social and political action (Best and Krueger 2011), including from taking action to combat climate change (Norgaard 2006). Whereas anger has been identified as one of the strongest emotional motivators for taking political action generally (Jasper 2011(Jasper , 2014 and climate action more specifically (Kleres and Wettergren 2016).…”

Section: Affective Response To Perceived Threatmentioning

confidence: 99%

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The Effects of Communicating Climate Change Threat: Mobilizing Anger and Authoritarian Affect Displacement

Spaiser¹,

Dunn²,

Milner³

et al. 2022

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There is increasing evidence that climate change and the threat it poses may increase authoritariantendencies within populations, contributing to increasing polarization and blocked climate change action.However, the mechanisms for these effects are still underexplored. In this study, we conduct a surveyexperiment (N=570) to better understand the connections between authoritarian predispositions,authoritarian attitudes, climate change threat, anger about climate change, and climate change responsebehaviour. We find that: 1. individuals with authoritarian predispositions who are exposed to climate changethreat become more authoritarian, while those with libertarian predispositions become less authoritarian; 2.exposure to climate change threat makes people angrier, which motivates action to mitigate climate change;and 3. authoritarian attitudes are negatively related to anger and climate change action. This indicates thatclimate change threat can motivate positive action to mitigate climate change but at the expense of makingauthoritarians more intolerant and punitive.

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Section: Affective Response To Perceived Threatmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Effects of Communicating Climate Change Threat: Mobilizing Anger and Authoritarian Affect Displacement

Spaiser¹,

Dunn²,

Milner³

et al. 2022

Preprint

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“…The mediating role played by hope in promoting resilience and health during an outbreak may be attributed to hopeful people’s higher likelihood of taking action and solving problems [ 44 , 49 , 54 , 55 ]. Such individuals are therefore likely to anticipate that more handwashing during the outbreak would improve their lives despite the associated challenges, and they may consequently decide to adopt this behavior, hoping for a better future [ 44 , 46 , 49 ].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Hope was found to mediate psychological distress’ associations not only with health status but also with life satisfaction [ 52 , 53 ]. Hope was also shown to mediate the negative potential of fear [ 54 ]. In health psychology, studies revealed that people with high levels of hope exhibit more constructive thinking about how to address their problems [ 55 ].…”

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Linking Self-Control, Hope, Positivity Ratio, Anxiety and Handwashing Habits during the Coronavirus Outbreak

Bukchin-Peles

Ronen

2022

IJERPH

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The novel COVID-19 is an infectious disease caused by the coronavirus. In the early stages of the pandemic, Israel struggled to contain its local outbreak through various measures that have virtually halted daily life and placed tens of thousands of people into quarantine. This study explored the role played by self-control and hope for obtaining two desired outcomes: (1) maintaining one’s positivity ratio (having more positive than negative affect—an indicator of wellbeing) and (2) increasing one’s contagion-preventing behavior (in this study—handwashing habits). Path analysis was conducted using survey data collected from 537 Israeli adults. Our findings suggest that self-control’s association with the positivity ratio is mediated through hope and anxiety levels. Self-control positively correlates with hope levels and negatively correlates with anxiety levels. Higher hope levels correlate with a higher positivity ratio, while lower anxiety levels correlate with a higher positivity ratio. The relationship between self-control and handwashing habits was mediated by hope, anxiety, and existing handwashing habits. This study brings research a step forward in demonstrating the vital role of positive components in achieving desired psychological and behavioral outcomes during an anxiety-provoking epidemic outbreak. In addition to its theoretical innovation, the importance of this study lies in its practical value: We focus on variables that are influenced by policy, education, and communication.

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“…The term emotion work was originally applied to conceptualising the everyday, ordinary management of emotions by individuals at home and in the workplace. More recently, social movement scholars have examined how activists manage their own and others' emotions in social movement contexts (Maney et al 2009;Gould 2015;Hagemann 2015;Jacobsson and Lindblom 2016;Kleres and Wettergren 2017;Santos 2020;Marquez 2021;Siegel 2021;Tuomola and Wahl-Jorgensen 2022). For instance, Hagemann comments: Emotion work, defined as active practices to regulate emotions, is .…”

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Emotion Work in Tabligh Jama’at Texts

Sahib

2022

Religions

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This study examines the emotional dynamics of the written and oral texts of Tabligh Jama’at—respectively, Faza’il-e-A’maal (Virtues of Good Deeds) and bayan (religious sermon). In them, the study identifies emotion work—the attempt to generate certain emotions. The study discusses how the texts’ emotion work relates to Tablighi discursive ideology (framing) and also posits several emotions that the emotion work might generate. From these findings, the study offers the idea that Tablighi emotion work contributes to transforming Muslims’ emotional sphere by attaching them emotionally to ultimate religious concerns. By enchanting Muslims’ emotional sphere and attaching Muslims to Islamic social actors, values, practices, and Islamic revivalist goals, Tablighi emotion work contributes to the social transformation of individuals and society.

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Fear, hope, anger, and guilt in climate activism

Cited by 187 publications

References 28 publications

The Effects of Communicating Climate Change Threat: Mobilizing Anger and Authoritarian Affect Displacement

The Effects of Communicating Climate Change Threat: Mobilizing Anger and Authoritarian Affect Displacement

Linking Self-Control, Hope, Positivity Ratio, Anxiety and Handwashing Habits during the Coronavirus Outbreak

Emotion Work in Tabligh Jama’at Texts

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