dc.contributor.author |
Claessens, Scott |
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dc.contributor.author |
Kelly, Daniel |
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dc.contributor.author |
Sibley, Chris G |
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dc.contributor.author |
Chaudhuri, Ananish |
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dc.contributor.author |
Atkinson, Quentin D |
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dc.coverage.spatial |
England |
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dc.date.accessioned |
2024-07-11T23:22:02Z |
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dc.date.available |
2024-07-11T23:22:02Z |
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dc.date.issued |
2022-07 |
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dc.identifier.citation |
(2022). Scientific Reports, 12(1), 12730-. |
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dc.identifier.issn |
2045-2322 |
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dc.identifier.uri |
https://hdl.handle.net/2292/69186 |
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dc.description.abstract |
Understanding the psychological causes of variation in climate change belief and pro-environmental behaviour remains an urgent challenge for the social sciences. The "cooperative phenotype" is a stable psychological preference for cooperating in social dilemmas that involve a tension between individual and collective interest. Since climate change poses a social dilemma on a global scale, this issue may evoke similar psychological processes as smaller social dilemmas. Here, we investigate the relationships between the cooperative phenotype and climate change belief and behaviour with a representative sample of New Zealanders (N = 897). By linking behaviour in a suite of economic games to self-reported climate attitudes, we show robust positive associations between the cooperative phenotype and both climate change belief and pro-environmental behaviour. Furthermore, our structural equation models support a motivated reasoning account in which the relationship between the cooperative phenotype and pro-environmental behaviour is mediated by climate change belief. These findings suggest that common psychological mechanisms underlie cooperation in both micro-scale social dilemmas and larger-scale social dilemmas like climate change. |
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dc.format.medium |
Electronic |
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dc.language |
eng |
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dc.publisher |
Springer Nature |
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dc.relation.ispartofseries |
Scientific reports |
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dc.rights |
Items in ResearchSpace are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated. Previously published items are made available in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. |
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dc.rights.uri |
https://researchspace.auckland.ac.nz/docs/uoa-docs/rights.htm |
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dc.rights.uri |
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
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dc.subject |
Humans |
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dc.subject |
Attitude |
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dc.subject |
Cooperative Behavior |
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dc.subject |
Phenotype |
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dc.subject |
Models, Theoretical |
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dc.subject |
Climate Change |
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dc.subject |
38 Economics |
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dc.subject |
4406 Human Geography |
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dc.subject |
44 Human Society |
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dc.subject |
Mental health |
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dc.subject |
13 Climate Action |
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dc.subject |
Science & Technology |
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dc.subject |
Multidisciplinary Sciences |
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dc.subject |
Science & Technology - Other Topics |
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dc.subject |
PROENVIRONMENTAL BEHAVIOR |
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dc.subject |
SELF-REPORT |
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dc.subject |
DETERMINANTS |
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dc.subject |
PREFERENCES |
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dc.subject |
FOUNDATIONS |
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dc.subject |
PERSONALITY |
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dc.subject |
PUNISHMENT |
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dc.subject |
EFFICIENCY |
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dc.subject |
ATTITUDES |
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dc.subject |
IDEOLOGY |
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dc.title |
Cooperative phenotype predicts climate change belief and pro-environmental behaviour |
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dc.type |
Journal Article |
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dc.identifier.doi |
10.1038/s41598-022-16937-2 |
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pubs.issue |
1 |
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pubs.begin-page |
12730 |
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pubs.volume |
12 |
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dc.date.updated |
2024-06-16T21:47:26Z |
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dc.rights.holder |
Copyright: The authors |
en |
dc.identifier.pmid |
35882900 (pubmed) |
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pubs.author-url |
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35882900 |
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pubs.publication-status |
Published |
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dc.rights.accessrights |
http://purl.org/eprint/accessRights/OpenAccess |
en |
pubs.subtype |
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't |
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pubs.subtype |
research-article |
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pubs.subtype |
Journal Article |
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pubs.elements-id |
914216 |
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pubs.org-id |
Business and Economics |
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pubs.org-id |
Science |
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pubs.org-id |
Economics |
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pubs.org-id |
Psychology |
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dc.identifier.eissn |
2045-2322 |
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dc.identifier.pii |
10.1038/s41598-022-16937-2 |
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pubs.number |
12730 |
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pubs.record-created-at-source-date |
2024-06-17 |
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pubs.online-publication-date |
2022-07-26 |
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