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The role of emotional responses in climate perception and mitigation behaviour among flood victims: A systematic review 洪水灾民的情绪反应在气候感知和缓解行为中的作用：系统综述

IF 7 1区心理学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Journal of Environmental Psychology

Pub Date : 2025-11-03 DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvp.2025.102844

Winnie Cheah , Suzanna Awang Bono , Mageswary Karpudewan , Mohamad Shaharudin Samsurijan

Flooding is a consequence of climate change that significantly affects individuals’ emotions, yet it remains unclear whether these emotional responses influence climate change perception (CCP) and climate change mitigation behaviour (CCMB). This systematic review examined the role of emotional responses in influencing CCP and CCMB among flood victims and identified which emotional responses have been explored in the literature. A comprehensive search across nine databases yielded only sixteen eligible studies, highlighting the limited research attention to this topic. Sample sizes ranged from 15 to 1137 participants, and all studies focused on individuals with flood experience. Studies were synthesised narratively following PRISMA guidelines. Despite methodological variation, the findings indicate a potential role for negative emotional responses, particularly concern, worry, fear, and helplessness, in influencing both CCP and CCMB. Notably, limited studies examined positive emotions, which may reflect their low salience in disaster contexts. Many studies used broad or composite measures, limiting insight into specific emotional effects. The small evidence base and methodological heterogeneity point to a significant gap in the literature. The review provides insight for future research on emotional responses to natural disasters affecting populations. Further research is needed to identify discrete emotions and clarify their influence on CCMB and CCP among natural disaster victims. These insights are critical for designing targeted interventions and communication strategies among natural disaster victims.

洪水是气候变化的结果，它显著影响个人的情绪，但这些情绪反应是否影响气候变化感知（CCP）和气候变化减缓行为（CCMB）尚不清楚。本系统综述考察了情绪反应在影响洪水灾民CCP和CCMB中的作用，并确定了哪些情绪反应在文献中被探讨过。在9个数据库中进行的全面搜索只产生了16项符合条件的研究，突出了对该主题的有限研究关注。样本量从15人到1137人不等，所有的研究都集中在有洪水经历的个人身上。研究是按照PRISMA的指导方针进行叙述性综合的。尽管方法存在差异，但研究结果表明，负面情绪反应，特别是关注、担忧、恐惧和无助，在影响CCP和CCMB方面都有潜在的作用。值得注意的是，有限的研究考察了积极情绪，这可能反映了它们在灾难背景下的低显著性。许多研究使用了广泛或综合的测量方法，限制了对特定情绪影响的洞察。证据基础小和方法异质性表明文献中存在重大差距。该综述为未来对影响人口的自然灾害的情绪反应的研究提供了见解。需要进一步的研究来识别离散情绪，并阐明其对自然灾害受害者CCMB和CCP的影响。这些见解对于设计有针对性的干预措施和自然灾害受害者之间的沟通战略至关重要。

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Whose data, whose power? Decolonizing climate change and mental health evidence 谁的数据，谁的权力？非殖民化气候变化和心理健康证据

IF 7 1区心理学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Journal of Environmental Psychology

Pub Date : 2025-11-03 DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvp.2025.102845

John Jamir Benzon R. Aruta

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Black Summer arson: Examining the impact of climate misinformation and corrections on reasoning 黑色夏季纵火：检查气候错误信息和更正对推理的影响

IF 7 1区心理学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Journal of Environmental Psychology

Pub Date : 2025-11-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvp.2025.102842

Emily R. Spearing , Eryn J. Newman , Iain Walker , John Cook , Tim Kurz , Ullrich K.H. Ecker

Climate misinformation has been identified as a barrier to mitigative action. One prominent example occurred when the 2019/2020 “Black Summer” bushfires in Australia were blamed on arson. This claim is cognitively attractive because of its simplicity and was widely publicised at the time, but also thoroughly debunked. In two experiments, we examined the impact of a fictional misleading article implicating arson as the primary cause of the Black Summer fires on Australian (Exp. 1, N = 509) and Canadian (Exp. 2, N = 506) participants' reasoning, associated donation behaviour, and climate change attitudes. The misinformation significantly influenced reasoning about the Black Summer and future fires in both experiments; it also reduced the donations of Australian participants to a local climate organisation and impacted Canadian participants’ reasoning about a novel, conceptually related (but fictional) flooding event. Corrections were largely effective at mitigating misinformation impact. A bolstered correction that portrayed climate change as an important causal factor through its impact on risks and emphasised the multicausality of natural disasters was more effective than a simple correction that merely refuted the misinformation. Climate change attitudes were largely unaffected by the misinformation and interventions. Our findings demonstrate that event-specific climate misinformation can influence reasoning beyond a specific event, and that corrections are broadly useful for combatting its effects.

气候错误信息已被确定为减缓行动的障碍。一个突出的例子是，2019/2020年澳大利亚的“黑色夏天”森林大火被归咎于纵火。这种说法在认知上很有吸引力，因为它很简单，当时被广泛宣传，但也被彻底揭穿了。在两个实验中，我们研究了一篇虚构的误导性文章对澳大利亚（实验1，N = 509）和加拿大（实验2，N = 506）参与者的推理、相关捐赠行为和气候变化态度的影响，该文章暗示纵火是黑色夏季火灾的主要原因。在两个实验中，错误信息显著影响了对黑色夏季和未来火灾的推理；它还减少了澳大利亚参与者对当地气候组织的捐款，并影响了加拿大参与者对一个新颖的、概念上相关的（但虚构的）洪水事件的推理。更正在很大程度上有效地减轻了错误信息的影响。通过对风险的影响，将气候变化描述为一个重要的因果因素，并强调自然灾害的多因果性，这种强有力的修正比仅仅驳斥错误信息的简单修正更有效。对气候变化的态度基本上没有受到错误信息和干预的影响。我们的研究结果表明，特定事件的气候错误信息可以影响特定事件之外的推理，并且更正对于对抗其影响非常有用。

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Embracing nature: Psychometric properties of the Italian version of the preferences for nature questionnaire 拥抱自然：意大利版自然偏好问卷的心理测量特性

IF 7 1区心理学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Journal of Environmental Psychology

Pub Date : 2025-10-31 DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvp.2025.102840

M. Spinoni , P. Mancin , S. Cerea , C. Di Gesto , G.R. Policardo , M. Ghisi , C. Matera , A. Nerini , C. Grano

The preference for natural environments over urban settings is well-documented. The Preferences for Natural Environments Questionnaire (PNQ) is a valuable tool for evaluating preferences toward natural versus urban environments. However, its psychometric properties have not yet been explored outside of the US cultural context, and there is a lack of research on its sex invariance. This study aims to validate the PNQ in the Italian context by examining its factorial structure, convergent and incremental validity, and testing sex invariance. A sample of 582 Italian individuals (Mage = 31.7, SD = 14.8) completed an Italian-translated version of the PNQ (I-PNQ), alongside measures assessing connectedness to nature (CNS), environmental concerns (NEP-R), and nature-related behaviors and attitudes. Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) revealed a two-dimensional structure namely Preferences for Natural Environments (PNQ-N) and Preferences for Urban Environments (PNQ-U), and the Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) showed excellent fit indices. Internal reliability was good. The PNQ-N correlated significantly with the CNS and the NEP-R, while the PNQ-U negatively correlated with the CNS, providing evidence for its convergent validity. Incremental validity was established by demonstrating the significant contributions of the PNQ-N and the PNQ-U in predicting nature visitation frequency, time spent in nature, and enjoyment derived from nature, after controlling for other related constructs. The I-PNQ was found to be sex-invariant, enabling comparisons of environmental preferences between males and females. These findings support the I-PNQ as a reliable and valid tool for assessing environmental preferences, highlighting its utility in understanding nature-related behaviors and attitudes.

人们对自然环境的偏好超过了城市环境，这是有据可查的。对自然环境的偏好问卷（PNQ）是评估对自然环境和城市环境偏好的一个有价值的工具。然而，它的心理测量特性尚未在美国文化背景之外进行探索，并且缺乏对其性别不变性的研究。本研究旨在通过检验其析因结构、收敛效度和增量效度以及测试性别不变性来验证意大利语境下的PNQ。582名意大利人（Mage = 31.7, SD = 14.8）完成了意大利语翻译版的PNQ (I-PNQ)，以及评估与自然的联系（CNS）、环境问题（NEP-R）和与自然相关的行为和态度的措施。探索性因子分析（EFA）揭示了自然环境偏好（PNQ-N）和城市环境偏好（PNQ-U）的二维结构，验证性因子分析（CFA）显示了良好的拟合指数。内部可靠性很好。PNQ-N与CNS和NEP-R显著相关，而PNQ-U与CNS负相关，证明了其收敛效度。在控制了其他相关构念后，PNQ-N和PNQ-U在预测自然访问频率、在自然中度过的时间和从自然中获得的享受方面的显著贡献建立了增量效度。I-PNQ被发现是性别不变的，可以比较男性和女性之间的环境偏好。这些发现支持I-PNQ作为评估环境偏好的可靠和有效的工具，突出了它在理解与自然相关的行为和态度方面的效用。

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Pro-environmental decisions are hampered by their opportunity costs – evidence from effort-based decision-making 支持环境的决策受到机会成本的阻碍——这是基于努力的决策的证据

IF 7 1区心理学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Journal of Environmental Psychology

Pub Date : 2025-10-31 DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvp.2025.102843

Nanne Kukkonen , Florian Lange , Casper Van den Bossche , Ruth M. Krebs

Pro-environmental behavior is often conceptualized as a trade-off between environmental benefits and the associated costs: a person engages in a pro-environmental behavior if the value of the environmental benefit outweighs the time, effort, or money required to generate it. However, pro-environmental behavior does not occur in a vacuum: behaving pro-environmentally most often implies not engaging in competing behaviors, but the associated opportunity costs have rarely been considered in previous work. Here, we study pro-environmental behavior as an effort-based decision-making process to better understand how pro-environmental behavior is shaped by the costs and benefits of competing behavioral options. In two studies (N = 115 & N = 255), participants were asked to choose between exerting effort to obtain monetary rewards either for themselves or for the environment. By manipulating reward magnitude and effort level of each option orthogonally, we found that smaller environmental rewards led to increased effort discounting, that is, the level of effort affected decisions more at low levels of environmental reward. This effect was especially strong when the alternative (self-benefiting) option was effortful and/or carried low incentive value, suggesting that the effort related to pro-environmental behavior is most relevant at low opportunity cost.

亲环境行为通常被定义为环境利益和相关成本之间的权衡：如果环境利益的价值超过了产生它所需的时间、精力或金钱，那么一个人就会从事亲环境行为。然而，亲环境行为不是在真空中发生的：亲环境行为通常意味着不参与竞争行为，但相关的机会成本在以前的工作中很少被考虑。本文将亲环境行为作为一个基于努力的决策过程进行研究，以更好地理解亲环境行为是如何受到竞争行为选择的成本和收益的影响的。在两项研究中（N = 115和N = 255），参与者被要求在为自己或为环境付出努力获得金钱奖励之间做出选择。通过对每个选项的奖励大小和努力水平进行正交操作，我们发现较小的环境奖励导致努力折扣增加，即在低水平的环境奖励下，努力水平对决策的影响更大。当另一种选择（自利）是努力和/或具有低激励价值时，这种效应尤其强烈，这表明与亲环境行为相关的努力在低机会成本下最相关。

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Nudging meat off the plate in foodservice? A systematic review and meta-analysis identifying moderators in field-based intervention studies 把肉从餐饮服务的盘子里挤出去？一项系统综述和荟萃分析，确定现场干预研究中的调节因子

IF 7 1区心理学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Journal of Environmental Psychology

Pub Date : 2025-10-30 DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvp.2025.102830

Isabel Schäufele-Elbers , Michael Bosnjak , Giulia Gastaldello , Guenter Schamel

This meta-analysis investigates real-world nudging interventions to reduce meat consumption, uniquely focusing on 33 field experiments with 78 effect sizes that use revealed preferences to minimize attitude-behavior bias. Key findings indicate that the effectiveness of nudging interventions is highly heterogeneous (I² = 99.97 %), with an estimated prediction interval ranging from −50 % to 28 %. Therefore, our focus is on the conditions that moderate potential nudging effects in food service: Interventions targeting decision structure yield a substantial effectiveness with reductions in meat consumption up to 30 %, among them, choice defaults with a 54 % reduction on average. Conversely, strategies based on information provision or decision assistance were found to be ineffective in promoting behavioral change. Our study also identifies a concern: approximately 30 % of interventions resulted in a backfire effect, leading to increased meat consumption. This proportion is higher than reported in some previous meta-analyses and could be attributed to less controlled field study environments or psychological reactance. Future research should continue to explore the complex interplay of moderating variables, investigate the long-term persistence of default effects, examine potential compensation behaviors, and analyze how individual values and attitudes might further moderate nudging success. Understanding these nuances will be crucial for designing and implementing truly effective and context-sensitive strategies to promote more sustainable and healthy dietary patterns.

本荟萃分析调查了现实世界中减少肉类消费的轻推干预措施，独特地关注了33个现场实验，78个效应大小，使用揭示的偏好来最小化态度-行为偏差。关键发现表明，助推干预的有效性是高度异质性的（I2 = 99.97%），估计预测区间为- 50%至28%。因此，我们的重点是在食品服务中缓和潜在推动效应的条件：针对决策结构的干预措施产生了实质性的效果，减少了30%的肉类消费，其中，选择违约平均减少了54%。相反，基于信息提供或决策协助的策略在促进行为改变方面被发现是无效的。我们的研究还发现了一个问题：大约30%的干预措施产生了适得其反的效果，导致肉类消费量增加。这一比例高于之前一些荟萃分析的报告，可能是由于较少控制的实地研究环境或心理抗拒。未来的研究应继续探索调节变量的复杂相互作用，调查默认效应的长期持久性，检查潜在的补偿行为，并分析个人价值观和态度如何进一步调节助推成功。了解这些细微差别对于设计和实施真正有效和对环境敏感的战略以促进更可持续和健康的饮食模式至关重要。

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Boundary conditions of dynamic norm messages in reducing plastic consumption: “Less is More” and “Stronger for Strangers” 减少塑料消费动态规范信息的边界条件：“少即是多”与“陌生人更强”

IF 7 1区心理学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Journal of Environmental Psychology

Pub Date : 2025-10-29 DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvp.2025.102839

Ágnes Buvár , Gabor Orosz , Ágnes Zsila

Convincing people to lead a more sustainable lifestyle can have a significant positive impact on our environment. Social media represents an ideal scalable platform for sustainable messages. This study investigates the efficacy of dynamic norm interventions, disseminated by social media influencers, in prompting reduced consumption of PET bottles. Drawing on established research confirming the efficacy of such interventions in fostering sustainable behavior, three studies were conducted (N_sum = 1329) to ascertain the impact of these interventions within the context of influencer communication. Findings indicated that the length of the message and the strength of parasocial relationships with the influencer were moderators of the effect of dynamic norms on the perceived persuasiveness of the message among the primary audience of the influencer. When the parasocial relationship was less intense and the message was concise, dynamic norms had a greater direct influence on the persuasiveness and a greater indirect influence on behavioral intentions such as engagement with the post. These insights extend the scope and application of dynamic norm interventions in environmental sustainability efforts on social media.

说服人们过一种更可持续的生活方式可以对我们的环境产生重大的积极影响。社交媒体是可持续信息的理想可扩展平台。本研究调查了由社交媒体影响者传播的动态规范干预在促使减少PET瓶消费方面的功效。根据证实此类干预措施在培养可持续行为方面的有效性的既定研究，进行了三项研究（Nsum = 1329），以确定这些干预措施在影响者沟通背景下的影响。研究结果表明，信息的长度和与影响者的副社会关系的强度是动态规范对影响者的主要受众感知信息说服力的影响的调节因子。当副社会关系较弱且信息简洁时，动态规范对说服力有更大的直接影响，对参与帖子等行为意图有更大的间接影响。这些见解扩展了动态规范干预在社会媒体环境可持续性努力中的范围和应用。

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Outcome efficacy and responsibility as correlates of household wildfire adaptation action in Boulder, CO 结果、功效和责任作为家庭野火适应行动的相关因素在博尔德，CO

IF 7 1区心理学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Journal of Environmental Psychology

Pub Date : 2025-10-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvp.2025.102836

N. Bennett , B. St John , M. Heisten , A.R. Carrico , K.M. Bailey

Growing wildfire risks are increasing losses and damages to wildland-urban interface households in the American West. In Colorado, the December 2021 Marshall Fire destroyed over 1000 suburban homes and became the most destructive fire in the state's history and the 10th costliest in US history. Fortunately, homeowner adaptation action can play a significant role in preventing structural damage or loss that can come from a wildfire. Yet, action is more effective when coordinated across a community, since the nature of wildfire as a hazard means that one homeowner's wildfire risk is informed not only by their own actions but also those taken by their neighbors. Across the summer and fall of 2022, we distributed a household survey and conducted focus groups in the City of Boulder, which was near but not within the burn area of the Marshall Fire. Using multilevel regression analysis, we explored the role of social and cognitive factors in motivating both the number of adopted adaptation actions and the adoption of specific actions at the household scale. Our analysis points to the role of outcome efficacy and personal responsibility as correlates of homeowner adaptation action to wildfire. Our focus group data lend nuance and insight into our model results and highlight the role of extreme weather and perceptions of community inaction as drivers of low outcome efficacy beliefs and household inaction. Our findings point to the importance of collective action for wildfire as a tool to increase outcome efficacy perceptions and drive action at the household level.

在美国西部，日益增长的野火风险增加了荒地与城市交界家庭的损失和损害。在科罗拉多州，2021年12月的马歇尔大火摧毁了1000多所郊区房屋，成为该州历史上最具破坏性的火灾，也是美国历史上第10大火灾。幸运的是，房主的适应行动可以在防止野火造成的结构破坏或损失方面发挥重要作用。然而，当整个社区协调一致时，行动会更有效，因为野火作为一种危害的性质意味着一个房主的野火风险不仅是通过他们自己的行动，而且是通过他们邻居的行动来了解的。在2022年的夏季和秋季，我们在博尔德市进行了一项家庭调查，并进行了焦点小组调查，博尔德市离马歇尔大火的燃烧区域很近，但不在其范围内。利用多水平回归分析，我们探讨了社会和认知因素在促进采取适应行动的数量和采取具体行动在家庭规模上的作用。我们的分析指出了结果效能和个人责任的作用，作为房主适应野火行动的相关因素。我们的焦点小组数据为我们的模型结果提供了细微差别和洞察力，并强调了极端天气和社区不作为作为低结果有效性信念和家庭不作为驱动因素的作用。我们的研究结果指出，集体行动对野火的重要性，作为提高结果有效性认知和推动家庭层面行动的工具。

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Awe and adolescents' pro-environmental behavior: the role of nature connectedness and moral identity 敬畏与青少年亲环境行为：自然连通性和道德认同的作用

IF 7 1区心理学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Journal of Environmental Psychology

Pub Date : 2025-10-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvp.2025.102832

Chen Leyao , Wang Yinyin , Huang Xishan , Li Xinqi , Lai Wenyu , Lin Canli , Zhai Wenhao

Environmental sustainability has become a critical global concern. However, public indifference and inaction may further accelerate the gradual loss of natural heritage. In examining the psychological mechanisms that foster pro-environmental behavior (PEB), researchers have identified awe—an emotion elicited by stimuli that transcend one's comprehension—as a significant promoter of such behavior. Furthermore, the mechanism through which awe influences PEB is both theoretically and practically valuable, and it has attracted the attention of the current study. It is possible that awe towards the natural environment enhances a sense of belonging and unity with nature. This, in turn, may lead to a more positive self-schema centered around moral traits, which can motivate individuals to act in ways that benefit the environment. Therefore, the current study aims to examine the impact of awe on PEB and the mediating roles of nature connectedness and moral identity. Given the gaps in research on adolescents' PEB and their crucial role in the conservation of natural heritage, focusing on this demographic is both timely and meaningful. To achieve our purpose, two studies were conducted. In study 1, 554 middle school students were recruited, and questionnaire surveys revealed significant positive correlations among awe, nature connectedness, moral identity, and PEB. Moreover, nature connectedness and moral identity served as mediators in the relationship between awe and PEB. In study 2, 180 middle school students were recruited, and laboratory experiments using videos to induce state awe demonstrated that induced awe enhances both moral identity and PEB, with the mediators aligning with those identified in Study 1. In summary, this study provides support for the association between awe and adolescents' PEB, as well as the mediating roles of nature connectedness and moral identity, thereby advancing the understanding of PEB. The findings provide valuable insights into strategies for enhancing adolescents' PEB.

环境可持续性已成为全球关注的一个重要问题。然而，公众的冷漠和不作为可能会进一步加速自然遗产的逐渐丧失。在研究促进亲环境行为（PEB）的心理机制时，研究人员已经确定敬畏——一种由超越个人理解的刺激引起的情绪——是这种行为的重要促进因素。此外，敬畏影响PEB的机制具有理论和实践价值，是当前研究的重点。对自然环境的敬畏可能会增强人们对自然的归属感和归属感。反过来，这可能会导致以道德品质为中心的更积极的自我图式，这可以激励个人以有利于环境的方式行事。因此，本研究旨在探讨敬畏对人格行为的影响，以及自然连通性和道德认同的中介作用。鉴于青少年PEB研究的空白及其在自然遗产保护中的关键作用，将重点放在这一人口统计上既及时又有意义。为了达到我们的目的，我们进行了两项研究。研究共招募了554名初中生，问卷调查结果显示敬畏、自然连通性、道德认同与PEB呈显著正相关。此外，自然连通性和道德认同在敬畏与PEB的关系中起中介作用。在研究2中，我们招募了180名中学生，通过视频诱导状态敬畏的实验室实验表明，诱发敬畏同时增强了道德认同和PEB，其中介效应与研究1中发现的一致。综上所述，本研究为敬畏与青少年人格行为之间的关系以及自然连通性和道德认同的中介作用提供了支持，从而促进了对人格行为的理解。研究结果为提高青少年PEB的策略提供了有价值的见解。

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Moral framing effects on environmental attitudes: A conceptual replication and extension of Feinberg and Willer (2013) 道德框架对环境态度的影响：Feinberg和Willer（2013）的概念复制和扩展

IF 7 1区心理学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Journal of Environmental Psychology

Pub Date : 2025-10-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvp.2025.102827

Dilara Cavdar , Beyza Tepe , S. Adil Saribay , Onurcan Yilmaz

This study investigates the relationship between moral framing, political orientation, and pro-environmental attitudes, replicating and extending Feinberg and Willer (2013) in a non-Western context. Using a Turkish-speaking sample (N = 699), we examined the effectiveness of care and sanctity-framed messages and the moderating role of actively open-minded thinking (AOT). Our findings partially replicated the original study. Sanctity framing increased pro-environmental attitudes among conservatives, while care framing had no significant effect. Political conservatism was negatively associated with pro-environmental attitudes, confirming prior findings. Exploratory analyses revealed that AOT moderated the effects of sanctity framing on environmental attitudes, with individuals low or moderate in AOT being more responsive. Both care and sanctity frames increased environmental donation, addressing the intention-behavior gap. However, cultural nuances, such as the collectivist orientation of the sample, may have influenced the care frame's ineffectiveness. The study highlights the importance of cultural context in moral framing research and underscores the need for context-specific climate communication strategies.

本研究复制并扩展了Feinberg和Willer（2013）在非西方背景下的道德框架、政治取向和亲环境态度之间的关系。使用一个说土耳其语的样本（N = 699），我们检验了关怀和神圣框架信息的有效性以及积极开放思维（AOT）的调节作用。我们的发现部分重复了最初的研究。神圣框架增加了保守派的亲环境态度，而关怀框架没有显著影响。政治保守主义与环保态度呈负相关，证实了先前的发现。探索性分析表明，辅助辅助治疗调节了神圣框架对环境态度的影响，辅助辅助治疗水平低或中等的个体反应更积极。关怀和神圣框架都增加了环境捐赠，解决了意图与行为之间的差距。然而，文化的细微差别，如样本的集体主义取向，可能影响了护理框架的无效。该研究强调了文化背景在道德框架研究中的重要性，并强调了针对特定背景的气候传播策略的必要性。

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