Psychological responses to the proximity of climate change

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A systematic review of the psychological distance of climate change: Towards the development of an evidence-based construct (2021, background): “…half of the studies measured all four PD dimensions, eight measured a combination of two or three dimensions, and four studies measured only spatial (Brügger et al., 2021; Brügger, Morton, & Dessai, 2015), social-spatial (Berger et al., 2019) or temporal distance (Fesenfeld & Rinscheid, 2021).”
Does reduced psychological distance increase climate engagement? On the limits of localizing climate change (2018, background): “…for climate change mitigation and adaptation policy, thus complementing recent work arguing that distance manipulations in climate change messaging, in and of themselves, should not be expected to uniformly increase support and action for addressing climate change (Brügger et al., 2015, 2016).”
Youth perceptions of climate change: A narrative synthesis (2020, background): “This appears the case with adults (Spence, Poortinga, & Pidgeon, 2012) (although it should be noted that the link between psychological distance and action is not straightforward, Brügger et al., 2015).”