Blöbaum Anke, Schmidt Karolin, Böcher Michael, Arlinghaus Julia, Krause Friederike, Matthies Ellen
Faculty of Natural Sciences, Institute of Psychology, Environmental Psychology, Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg, Madgeburg, Germany.
Faculty of Humanities, Chair of Political Science and Sustainable Development, Institute for Social Sciences, Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, Madgeburg, Germany.
Front Psychol. 2025 Jun 18;16:1433280. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1433280. eCollection 2025.
The overall research objective of the present study is the investigation of the effects of a strongly expressed restriction-oriented climate change mitigation heuristic (SER heuristic) on people's attitude toward and acceptance of climate change mitigation technologies such as Carbon Capture and Utilization (CCU). Furthermore, we want to examine the effects of a scenario-based communication intervention approach on the promotion of a supportive attitude toward and acceptance of CCU, especially referring to people characterized by a SER heuristic. Against this background, we present empirical findings based on an online experiment including a scenario-based intervention in an initial sample of 401 German participants. In line with our expectations, our findings show that participants characterized by a SER heuristic report a significantly lower supportive attitude toward CCU as well as a lower acceptance of CCU, compared to participants who are not characterized by a SER heuristic. Furthermore, our findings imply the examined scenario-based communication intervention approach to be an effective tool for the promotion of participants' supportive attitude toward CCU and acceptance of CCU. Taken together, the present study provides further valuable insights for the promotion of people's supportive attitude toward as well as of their acceptance of necessary new climate change mitigation technologies such as CCU.
本研究的总体研究目标是调查一种强烈表达的以限制为导向的气候变化缓解启发式方法（SER启发式方法）对人们对气候变化缓解技术（如碳捕获与利用，CCU）的态度和接受度的影响。此外，我们希望研究一种基于情景的沟通干预方法对促进对CCU的支持态度和接受度的效果，特别是针对具有SER启发式方法特征的人群。在此背景下，我们基于一项在线实验呈现实证研究结果，该实验包括对401名德国参与者的初始样本进行基于情景的干预。与我们的预期一致，我们的研究结果表明，与不具有SER启发式方法特征的参与者相比，具有SER启发式方法特征的参与者对CCU的支持态度明显较低，对CCU的接受度也较低。此外，我们的研究结果表明，所研究的基于情景的沟通干预方法是促进参与者对CCU的支持态度和接受度的有效工具。综上所述，本研究为促进人们对诸如CCU等必要的新气候变化缓解技术的支持态度和接受度提供了进一步有价值的见解。
