Irina Feygina

TL;DR: The present research finds that it is possible to eliminate the negative effect of system justification on environmentalism by encouraging people to regard pro-environmental change as patriotic and consistent with protecting the status quo (i.e., as a case of “system-sanctioned change”).

TL;DR: The authors found that when high system justifiers were led to believe that the economy was in a recovery, they recalled climate change information to be more serious than did those assigned to a control condition.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that prevailing systems, institutions, and practices espouse an ideology of conflict between humans and the natural world, and that the established paradigm of society espouses domination of and separation from the natural environment, and manifests in environmentally detrimental attitudes and practices.

TL;DR: The authors demonstrate that reframing environmental messages as consistent with upholding the established way of life and the well-being of our society gives rise to increased support for environmental efforts on the part of those who are especially motivated to justify the system and can therefore help to narrow the ideological gap in environmental attitudes and behaviors.

TL;DR: This paper reviewed psychological processes that underlie climate change denial, and survey promising directions for fostering support for solutions, drawing largely on studies conducted in the United States, whose population is exceptionally high on climate denial and disengagement.