Spaiser Viktoria, Nisbett Nicole
School of Politics and International Studies, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK.
NPJ Clim Action. 2025;4(1):81. doi: 10.1038/s44168-025-00282-x. Epub 2025 Aug 28.
Effective climate change mitigation requires profound lifestyle changes and citizens' support for transformational climate policies. We present a comprehensive, highly granular, field-experiment dataset of people's self-reported, daily, real-life behaviours measured in COe across six domains, as well as their civic and political behaviour. The data ( = 156, 7615 repeated observations over 8 weeks) was collected via a bespoke smartphone app and is enriched by people's daily reflections on their change trajectories and by data on political leaning, emotions, agency, socio-demographics, values, attitudes and social norms. The study shows that exposing people to moral appeals results in overall carbon footprint reduction (particularly from heating, food and consumption), and in greater civic and political climate action, including among people leaning politically to the centre and right. However, the treatment could lead to some backlash, i.e. increased carbon footprint (particularly from food and car journeys) in people who hold egoistic values.
有效的气候变化缓解措施需要人们的生活方式发生深刻改变,并需要公民支持变革性的气候政策。我们展示了一个全面、高度细化的实地实验数据集,该数据集包含人们在六个领域以二氧化碳当量衡量的自我报告的日常实际行为,以及他们的公民和政治行为。这些数据(8周内共156,7615次重复观测)是通过一款定制的智能手机应用程序收集的,并通过人们对其变化轨迹的日常反思以及关于政治倾向、情绪、能动性、社会人口统计学、价值观、态度和社会规范的数据得到充实。研究表明,让人们接触道德诉求会导致总体碳足迹减少(特别是在取暖、饮食和消费方面),并促使人们在公民和政治方面采取更多气候行动,包括政治倾向于中间和右翼的人群。然而,这种处理方式可能会引发一些反弹,即持有利己主义价值观的人碳足迹增加(特别是在饮食和汽车出行方面)。