Climate Justice: High-Status Ingroup Social Models Increase Pro-Environmental Action Through Making Actions Seem More Moral

Topics in Cognitive Science

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 196-221

  Sweetman, Joseph ^a   Whitmarsh, Lorraine E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Efficacy; Fairness; Morality; Pro environmental action; Social identity; Social model; Status

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; ENVIRONMENT; GROUP PROCESS; HUMAN; MORALITY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL JUSTICE; STATISTICAL BIAS;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CLIMATE CHANGE; COGNITION; ENVIRONMENT; GROUP PROCESSES; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MORAL OBLIGATIONS; MORALS; SELF EFFICACY; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION; SOCIAL JUSTICE;

EID: 84956585217     PISSN: 17568757     EISSN: 17568765     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/tops.12178     Document Type: Article

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