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SUBMITTER: Ecker UKH
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7330580 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Ecker Ullrich K H UKH Butler Lucy H LH Cook John J Hurlstone Mark J MJ Kurz Tim T Lewandowsky Stephan S
Journal of environmental psychology 20200702
The COVID-19 pandemic has understandably dominated public discourse, crowding out other important issues such as climate change. Currently, if climate change enters the arena of public debate, it primarily does so in direct relation to the pandemic. In two experiments, we investigated (1) whether portraying the response to the COVID-19 threat as a "trial run" for future climate action would increase climate-change concern and mitigation support, and (2) whether portraying climate change as a con ...[more]