{"id":3109,"date":"2023-05-17T07:40:35","date_gmt":"2023-05-17T05:40:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/?p=3109"},"modified":"2023-05-17T07:40:35","modified_gmt":"2023-05-17T05:40:35","slug":"new-research-finds-that-believers-are-more-likely-to-collaborate-with-strangers-on-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/2023\/05\/17\/new-research-finds-that-believers-are-more-likely-to-collaborate-with-strangers-on-climate-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Climate change believers are more likely to cooperate with strangers, new research has found"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>People&#039;s willingness to believe in climate change varies widely, as does their willingness to engage in pro-environmental behavior such as saving energy. In our recent study<\/span><span> we tried to understand the psychological factors behind these differences.\u00a0<\/span><span>The problem of climate change represents a social dilemma that raises the conflict between cooperation for the common good and acting in one&#039;s own interest.\u00a0<\/span><span>For example, if all fishermen comply with fishing quotas, it is good for everyone. If one fisherman exceeds the quota while everyone else complies, then that individual is better off at the expense of others.\u00a0<\/span>However, if it is rational for everyone to exceed the quota, then it is rational for everyone to do so, leading to rapid depletion of fish stocks.\u00a0<span>Reducing greenhouse gas emissions is costly. If other countries reduce while one does not, the other is better off at the expense of the others. But if everyone acts to maximize their self-interest, we get more pollution and global warming.\u00a0<\/span><span>Willingness to cooperate.\u00a0<\/span><span>One psychological mechanism that could explain differences in climate change opinions and pro-environmental behavior is the general willingness to cooperate in responding to social dilemmas.\u00a0<\/span><em>(Ananish Chaudhuri, Quentin Douglas Atkinson, Schott Claessens, The Conversation)<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People\u2019s willingness to believe in climate change varies widely, as does their willingness to engage in pro-environmental behaviors, such as saving energy. In our recent study, we attempted to understand the psychological factors behind these differences. The issue of climate change presents a social dilemma that poses a conflict between cooperating for the common good and acting in one\u2019s own [\u2026]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-klimaticka-zmena","category-znizovanie_co2_cdr_ccs_ccu_dac"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}