Susie Wang

TL;DR: The findings suggest that the hypothesized relationship between construal level and psychological distance may not hold in the context of climate change, and that it may be difficult to change pro-environmental behavior by manipulating these variables.

TL;DR: This paper found that emotional responses to climate change result from perceiving one's "objects of care" as threatened by climate change, which motivates caring about climate change itself, and in turn predicts behaviour.

TL;DR: The authors reviewed the use of climate imagery in digital media (news and social media, art, video and visualizations), and synthesize public perceptions research on factors that are important for engaging with climate imagery.

TL;DR: This article examined whether persuasive messages that activate the legacy motive (the desire to build a positive legacy) can increase the willingness of current actors to make sacrifices for future generations, and they found that when the benefits of cooperation accrue to decision makers in the present, high levels of cooperation are sustained, whereas when the benefit accru to future generations is elusive, intergenerational discounting makes cooperation elusive.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors review the results arising from an emerging literature in which the problem of avoiding dangerous climate change has been simulated using cooperation experiments in which individuals play a game requiring collective action to avert a catastrophe, and consider how knowledge of the effects of these variables might be harnessed by climate negotiators to improve the prospects of reaching a solution to global climate change.