Impact of anger, compassion, and hope on climate action taking
Dominika Zaremba, Michalina Marczak, Jarosław M Michałowski, Christian Andreas Klöckner, Małgorzata Wierzba, Artur Marchewka · 2026
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Dominika Zaremba and a cross-national team ran a preregistered experiment in 2026 on whether stirring climate emotions moves people to act. More than a thousand participants each in Poland and Norway read stories designed to evoke anger, compassion, or hope about climate change, or neutral stories. Afterward they could work at a tedious task that benefited an environmental cause or donate money, two concrete measures of pro-environmental behavior.
Against expectations, the emotional stories changed neither effort nor donations compared with the neutral ones. Age was the steady predictor instead, with older participants giving more of both. The authors suggest future work needs more natural or immersive emotional material, longer exposure, and tasks matched more closely to the feelings raised.
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| CREATOR | Dominika Zaremba, Michalina Marczak, Jarosław M Michałowski, Christian Andreas Klöckner, Małgorzata Wierzba, Artur Marchewka |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 67468 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |