van Prooijen Anne-Marie, Sparks Paul
Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management, Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Brussels, Belgium.
Risk Anal. 2014 May;34(5):929-36. doi: 10.1111/risa.12152. Epub 2013 Dec 11.
Anthropogenic climate change information tends to be interpreted against the backdrop of initial environmental beliefs, which can lead to some people being resistant toward the information. In this article (N = 88), we examined whether self-affirmation via reflection on personally important values could attenuate the impact of initial beliefs on the acceptance of anthropogenic climate change evidence. Our findings showed that initial beliefs about the human impact on ecological stability influenced the acceptance of information only among nonaffirmed participants. Self-affirmed participants who were initially resistant toward the information showed stronger beliefs in the existence of climate change risks and greater acknowledgment that individual efficacy has a role to play in reducing climate change risks than did their nonaffirmed counterparts.
人为气候变化信息往往是在初始环境信念的背景下被解读的，这可能导致一些人对该信息产生抵触情绪。在本文（样本量N = 88）中，我们研究了通过反思个人重要价值观进行自我肯定是否能减弱初始信念对接受人为气候变化证据的影响。我们的研究结果表明，关于人类对生态稳定性影响的初始信念仅在未得到肯定的参与者中影响信息的接受度。最初对信息持抵触态度的自我肯定参与者比未得到肯定的同行表现出更强的气候变化风险存在信念，以及更强烈地认可个人效能在降低气候变化风险中能发挥作用。
