Guilty conscience: motivating pro-environmental behavior by inducing negative moral emotions

By Jonas H. Rees, S. Klug, S. Bamberg. Climatic Change, 2015

255 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Sociology and Political Science

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Citations in the corpus

• Emotions predict policy support: Why it matters how people feel about climate change (2018, background): “Current research shows that emotions such as anger, fear, and guilt can motivate climate change action (Bamberg and Möser, 2007; Bissing-Olson et al., 2016; Ferguson and Branscombe, 2010; Harth et al., 2013; Lu and Schuldt, 2016; Mallett et al., 2013; Rees et al., 2015).”
• Experiences of pride, not guilt, predict pro-environmental behavior when pro-environmental descriptive norms are more positive (2016, background): “…confronted with an in-group’s (e.g., national) larger-than-average carbon footprint (Mallett et al., 2013) or humanity’s impact on climate change (Rees et al., 2015) have been shown to lead to feelings of collective guilt, and reading about one’s country’s responsibility for environmental…”