What explains public support for climate policies? A review of empirical and experimental studies

S Drews, JCJM Van den Bergh - Climate policy, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
The lack of broad public support prevents the implementation of effective climate policies.
This article aims to examine why citizens support or reject climate policies. For this purpose …

The psychological distance of climate change is overestimated

AM Van Valkengoed, L Steg, G Perlaviciute - One Earth, 2023 - cell.com
It is widely assumed that psychological distance (PD) is a major barrier to climate action:
many people are not motivated to act because they perceive climate change as affecting …

[HTML][HTML] Bridging psychological distance: The impact of immersive media on distant and proximal environmental issues

P Breves, H Schramm - Computers in Human Behavior, 2021 - Elsevier
The growing psychological distance from environmental issues is often used to explain the
lack of pro-environmental attitudes and behaviors in today's society. According to construal …

Psychological responses to the proximity of climate change

A Brügger, S Dessai, P Devine-Wright, TA Morton… - Nature climate …, 2015 - nature.com
A frequent suggestion to increase individuals' willingness to take action on climate change
and to support relevant policies is to highlight its proximal consequences, that is, those that …

Reducing, and bridging, the psychological distance of climate change

LS Loy, A Spence - Journal of Environmental Psychology, 2020 - Elsevier
Science communication aims to motivate action on climate change. We examined the
usefulness of two related communication strategies: proximising climate change with news …

Climate change from a distance: An analysis of construal level and psychological distance from climate change

S Wang, MJ Hurlstone, Z Leviston, I Walker… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
The public perception of climate change as abstract and distant may undermine climate
action. According to construal level theory, whether a phenomenon is perceived as …

Education, politics and opinions about climate change evidence for interaction effects

LC Hamilton - Climatic Change, 2011 - Springer
US public opinion regarding climate change has become increasingly polarized in recent
years, as partisan think tanks and others worked to recast an originally scientific topic into a …

Exploring citizen support for different types of climate policy

E Rhodes, J Axsen, M Jaccard - Ecological Economics, 2017 - Elsevier
Citizen support for climate policies is considered an important criterion in climate policy-
making. While there is a growing body of literature exploring factors of citizen support, most …

“Proximising” climate change reconsidered: A construal level theory perspective

A Brügger, TA Morton, S Dessai - Journal of environmental psychology, 2016 - Elsevier
Reducing the psychological distance of climate change has repeatedly been proposed as
one strategy to increase individuals' motivation to respond to climate change. From the …

[HTML][HTML] The role of trust in citizen acceptance of climate policy: Comparing perceptions of government competence, integrity and value similarity

S Kitt, J Axsen, Z Long, E Rhodes - Ecological Economics, 2021 - Elsevier
This study examines the role of citizen trust in explaining climate policy support, using the
case of low-carbon transportation policies in Canada–namely a carbon tax, electric vehicle …