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@misc{item_3339505,
title = {{Cooperative phenotype predicts climate change belief and pro-environmental behaviour}},
author = {Kelly, Daniel and Claessens, Scott and Sibley, Chris G and Chaudhuri, Ananish and Atkinson, Quentin Douglas},
language = {eng},
url = {http://psyarxiv.com/},
doi = {10.31234/osf.io/qu7v4},
year = {2021},
abstract = {{Understanding the psychological causes of variation in climate change belief and pro-environmental behaviour remains an urgent challenge for the social sciences. The {\textquotedblleft}cooperative phenotype{\textquotedblright} is a stable psychological preference for cooperating in social dilemmas that involve a tension between individual and collective interest. Since climate change poses a social dilemma on a global scale, this issue may evoke similar psychological processes as smaller social dilemmas. Here, we investigate the relationships between the cooperative phenotype and climate change belief and behaviour with a representative sample of New Zealanders (n {\textequals} 897). By linking behaviour in a suite of economic games to self-reported climate attitudes, we show robust positive associations between the cooperative phenotype and both climate change belief and pro-environmental behaviour. Furthermore, our mediation analyses support a motivated reasoning model in which the relationship between the cooperative phenotype and pro-environmental behaviour is fully mediated by climate change belief. These findings suggest that common psychological mechanisms underlie cooperation in both micro-scale social dilemmas and larger-scale social dilemmas like climate change.}},
contents = {Results and discussions Methods - Power analysis - Participants and sampling - Materials - Procedure - Statistical analyses},
journal = {{PsyArXiv}},
eid = {qu7v4},
}