climate change Flashcards
What are these 4 features that reliably produce a threat response?
- Threats have to come from individuals (climate change doesn’t come from people, rather the environment)
a. Power of intent (whether people intend to harm) - Brains respond to thing that are immoral (moral outrage is needed for response)
- Brains respond to immediate danger (our brains adapt to slow change and we don’t object because everyone else are subjected to it)(human beings define normal by what’s happening to most people and what’s going around them)
- It is happening to the individual (climate changes happens to everyone, we don’t think our individual behaviors will make a change)
what was the most effective intervention that encouraged hotel guests to reuse bathroom towels more often?
A sign that say “most of the guests who stay in this hotel reuse the towels”, most people want to be like others
- When are fear messages effective (in the Irv Janis study)?
If they are accompanied by clear indicator of what to do to not be afraid, what to do to help with the problem
- What is “affective forecasting?” How does understanding the psychology of affective forecasting make our behavior more sustainable?
Looking into the future and seeing what will make you happy, if it’ll make you happy, and how long it will make you happy
Human being are much more alike than different, we can look at other people and their happiness to see how happy we would be if we also had that things (ie if youre buying a tesla, look at the happiness of tesla owners)
- What are the two paths we can take to plan for the future?
1)think about things people can do to take action in their everyday lives (most people don’t care abt this)
2)make changes in the system, institutionalize it (this path works more)
- In sum, what good psychological hacks can help us deal with climate change more effectively?
Relate to others, give solutions to fear
