Climate change worry, eco-anxiety, and ecological grief are concepts that have emerged in
the media, public discourse, and research in recent years. However, there is not much …

Highlights•Affect and emotions are major drivers of climate change perceptions and
actions.•Positive and negative emotional communications can promote sustainable …

Social and ecological crises require people to act together, for instance, against climate
change or social injustice. Psychological scholarship suggests that human agency, in terms …

Large-scale environmental crises are genuinely collective phenomena: they usually result
from collective, rather than personal, behavior and how they are cognitively represented and …

Recent growth in the number of studies examining belief in climate change is a positive
development, but presents an ironic challenge in that it can be difficult for academics …

The# FridaysForFuture movement has attracted young activists around the world. In the
present mixed-method, socio-cultural psychological research, we investigate people's …

For over 50 years, scientists have sounded alarms that the burning of fossil fuels is causing
changes to the Earth's climate, and that failure to take action on climate change will have …

Behavioral science approaches to promoting sustainable action have mainly focused on
cognitive processes, whereas the role of emotions has received comparably little attention …

We discuss prior findings that enhancing perceptions of collective efficacy encourages pro-
environmental behavior. We suggest that collective efficacy manipulations affect pro …

The term “climate emergency” represents a new phase in climate change framing that many
hope will invigorate more climate action. Yet there has been relatively little discussion of …