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What shapes perceptions of climate change? New research since 2010 by Weber, Elke U.

“…Five years ago, an article in the first issue of WIREs Climate Change reviewed the factors that shape perceptions of climate change. Climate change is an…”
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Americans experience a false social reality by underestimating popular climate policy support by nearly half by Sparkman, Gregg, Geiger, Nathan, Weber, Elke U.

“…Pluralistic ignorance—a shared misperception of how others think or behave—poses a challenge to collective action on problems like climate change. Using a…”
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What shapes perceptions of climate change? by Weber, Elke U.

“…Climate change, as a slow and gradual modification of average climate conditions, is a difficult phenomenon to detect and track accurately based on personal…”
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The influence of anticipated pride and guilt on pro-environmental decision making by Schneider, Claudia R, Zaval, Lisa, Weber, Elke U, Markowitz, Ezra M

“…The present research explores the relationship between anticipated emotions and pro-environmental decision making comparing two differently valenced emotions:…”
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Public Understanding of Climate Change in the United States by Weber, Elke U, Stern, Paul C

“…This article considers scientific and public understandings of climate change and addresses the following question: Why is it that while scientific evidence…”
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Mindful Judgment and Decision Making by WEBER, Elke U, JOHNSON, Eric J

“…A full range of psychological processes has been put into play to explain judgment and choice phenomena. Complementing work on attention, information…”
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Examining charitable giving in real-world online donations by Sisco, Matthew R., Weber, Elke U.

“…The current study uses big data to study prosocial behavior by analyzing donations made on the GoFundMe platform. In a dataset of more than $44 million in…”
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Our future in the Anthropocene biosphere by Folke, Carl, Polasky, Stephen, Rockström, Johan, Galaz, Victor, Westley, Frances, Lamont, Michèle, Scheffer, Marten, Österblom, Henrik, Carpenter, Stephen R., Chapin, F. Stuart, Seto, Karen C., Weber, Elke U., Crona, Beatrice I., Daily, Gretchen C., Dasgupta, Partha, Gaffney, Owen, Gordon, Line J., Hoff, Holger, Levin, Simon A., Lubchenco, Jane, Steffen, Will, Walker, Brian H.

“…The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed an interconnected and tightly coupled globalized world in rapid change. This article sets the scientific stage for…”
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Discounting Future Green: Money Versus the Environment by Hardisty, David J, Weber, Elke U

“…In 3 studies, participants made choices between hypothetical financial, environmental, and health gains and losses that took effect either immediately or with…”
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Stewardship of global collective behavior by Bak-Coleman, Joseph B., Alfano, Mark, Barfuss, Wolfram, Bergstrom, Carl T., Centeno, Miguel A., Couzin, Iain D., Donges, Jonathan F., Galesic, Mirta, Gersick, Andrew S., Jacquet, Jennifer, Kao, Albert B., Moran, Rachel E., Romanczuk, Pawel, Rubenstein, Daniel I., Tombak, Kaia J., Van Bavel, Jay J., Weber, Elke U.

“…Collective behavior provides a framework for understanding how the actions and properties of groups emerge from the way individuals generate and share…”
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Effectiveness of behavioural interventions to reduce household energy demand: a scoping review by Composto, Jordana W, Weber, Elke U

“…This paper provides a scoping review of behavioural interventions that target household energy demand. We evaluate 584 empirical papers that test the…”
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Complementary Cognitive Capabilities, Economic Decision Making, and Aging by Li, Ye, Baldassi, Martine, Johnson, Eric J, Weber, Elke U

“…Fluid intelligence decreases with age, yet evidence about age declines in decision-making quality is mixed: Depending on the study, older adults make worse,…”
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How warm days increase belief in global warming by Zaval, Lisa, Keenan, Elizabeth A., Johnson, Eric J., Weber, Elke U.

“…Climate change judgements can depend on whether today seems warmer or colder than usual, termed the local warming effect. Although previous research has…”
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The Financial Costs of Sadness by Lerner, Jennifer S., Li, Ye, Weber, Elke U.

“…We hypothesized a phenomenon that we term myopic misery. According to our hypothesis, sadness increases impatience and creates a myopic focus on obtaining…”
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Polarization and the Psychology of Collectives by Levin, Simon A., Weber, Elke U.

“…Achieving global sustainability in the face of climate change, pandemics, and other global systemic threats will require collective intelligence and collective…”
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Multilevel intergroup conflict at the core of climate (in)justice: Psychological challenges and ways forward by Majumdar, Rohini, Weber, Elke U.

“…Although developed countries have been historically responsible for causing climate change, developing countries are more vulnerable to its current and future…”
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Sound credit scores and financial decisions despite cognitive aging by Li, Ye, Gao, Jie, Enkavi, A. Zeynep, Zaval, Lisa, Weber, Elke U., Johnson, Eric J.

“…Age-related deterioration in cognitive ability may compromise the ability of older adults to make major financial decisions. We explore whether knowledge and…”
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Lateral prefrontal cortex and self-control in intertemporal choice by Figner, Bernd, Knoch, Daria, Johnson, Eric J, Krosch, Amy R, Lisanby, Sarah H, Fehr, Ernst, Weber, Elke U

“…Disruption of function of left, but not right, lateral prefrontal cortex (LPFC) with low-frequency repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS)…”
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Fast track or Slo-Mo? Public support and temporal preferences for phasing out fossil fuel cars in the United States by Rinscheid, Adrian, Pianta, Silvia, Weber, Elke U.

“…Policies to phase out fossil fuel cars are key to averting dangerous and irreversible changes to the earth's climate. Given the potential impacts of such…”
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Towards a typology of risk preference: Four risk profiles describe two-thirds of individuals in a large sample of the U.S. population by Frey, Renato, Duncan, Shannon M., Weber, Elke U.

“…It has been a longstanding goal of the behavioral sciences to measure and model people’s risk preferences. In this article, we adopt a novel theoretical…”
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