A trust inoculation to protect public support of governmentally mandated actions to mitigate climate change

IF 3.2 2区 心理学 Q1 PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL Journal of Experimental Social Psychology Pub Date : 2024-06-20 DOI:10.1016/j.jesp.2024.104656
Tobia Spampatti , Tobias Brosch , Evelina Trutnevyte , Ulf J.J. Hahnel
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In a world barreling down into a worsening climate crisis, negative persuasive attacks to necessary climate policies are major threats to the public's support of governmental mandates to mitigate climate change. To protect against such attacks, here we introduce and investigate the effect and the treatment heterogeneity of the trust inoculation, a psychological inoculation strategy designed around the influence of trust as a key social dimension of persuasion. Across three preregistered studies, in one Swiss state (N = 389), in seven European countries (N = 2805), and in the United States (N = 3586), and in a mega-analysis (N = 6697), we provide evidence that inoculating citizens with the trustworthiness of key energy stakeholders protects citizens' support for renewable energy against multiple negative persuasive attacks (δ = 0.16). Whereas baseline trust in key energy stakeholders did not moderate the effects, the trust inoculation selectively protected the citizens most susceptible to negative persuasive attacks, i.e., participants with high biospheric values. Study 3 showed that the trust inoculation, rather than a simple trust message, is responsible for the protection from incoming persuasive attacks. Our findings demonstrate that the trust inoculation may serve as an easily implementable, and scalable umbrella strategy to engender a modest but significant protection for governmental mandates against multiple negative persuasive attacks.

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接种信任疫苗,保护公众对政府授权的减缓气候变化行动的支持
在气候危机日益加剧的今天,对必要的气候政策进行负面说服攻击是公众支持政府减缓气候变化的主要威胁。为了抵御这种攻击,我们在这里介绍并研究了信任接种的效果和治疗异质性。信任接种是一种心理接种策略,其设计围绕着信任这一关键的社会说服维度的影响。通过在瑞士的一个州(389 人)、欧洲的七个国家(2805 人)和美国(3586 人)进行的三项预先登记的研究,以及一项大型分析(6697 人),我们提供了证据,证明向公民接种关键能源利益相关者的可信度可保护公民对可再生能源的支持,使其免受多种负面说服攻击(δ = 0.16)。虽然对主要能源利益相关者的基线信任并没有调节效果,但信任接种选择性地保护了最容易受到负面劝说攻击的公民,即具有较高生物圈价值的参与者。研究 3 表明,信任接种,而非简单的信任信息,是保护公民免受劝说性攻击的原因。我们的研究结果表明,信任接种可以作为一种易于实施和扩展的保护伞策略,为政府授权提供适度但显著的保护,以抵御多重负面劝说攻击。
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期刊介绍: The Journal of Experimental Social Psychology publishes original research and theory on human social behavior and related phenomena. The journal emphasizes empirical, conceptually based research that advances an understanding of important social psychological processes. The journal also publishes literature reviews, theoretical analyses, and methodological comments.
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