A cautionary note about messages of hope: Focusing on progress in reducing carbon emissions weakens mitigation motivation

By Matthew J. Hornsey, Kelly S. Fielding. 2016

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Subfields: Literature and Literary Theory, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Sociology and Political Science

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Citations in the corpus

• How Hope and Doubt Affect Climate Change Mobilization (2019, background): “In communication research, optimistic messages have been hypothesized to either motivate climate change mitigation behaviors by stimulating hope and efficacy (Chadwick, 2015) or to promote complacency by reducing risk perceptions and distress (Hornsey and Fielding, 2016).”
• Bearing worlds: learning to live-with climate change (2019, background): “The general belief is that inspiring concern in people will motivate them to take action (Hornsey and Fielding 2016).”
• Attitudes Towards Science (2018, result): “Similar findings were later obtained by Hornsey and Fielding (2016) and Stavrova, Ehlebracht, and Fetchenhauer (2016).”
• Is hope good for motivating collective action in the context of climate change? Differentiating hope’s emotion- and problem-focused coping functions (2019, background): “, Steg and Vlek, 2009; Stern, 2000) as it suggests that solving a collective problem — certainly one of this complexity and scale — requires collective motivation and action (e.g., Bamberg et al., 2015; Fritsche et al., 2018; Hornsey and Fielding, 2016; Rees and Bamberg, 2014; Sloot et al., 2018; Va”
• Framing Climate Change: Economics, Ideology, and Uncertainty in American News Media Content From 1988 to 2014 (2019, background): “The relative balance of these frames in news content may have implications for the willingness of the public to support and engage in climate action (Bain et al., 2016; Hornsey and Fielding, 2016; Walker et al., 2018).”
• Climate of hope or doom and gloom? Testing the climate change hope vs. fear communications debate through online videos (2021, methodology): “The video frames were created based on a synthesis of study methodologies, including O’Neill and Nicholson-Cole (2009), Feinberg and Willer (2010), Hornsey and Fielding (2016), Hart and Feldman (2016), and Skurka et al. (2018).”
• Emotions predict policy support: Why it matters how people feel about climate change (2018, background): “Similarly, messages of hope have been found to increase action in some cases (Myers et al., 2012; Ojala, 2012b) and reduce it in others by lowering risk perceptions (Hornsey and Fielding, 2016).”