Identifying the Active Ingredients of Climate Change Narratives: A Model of Temporal Perspective, Narrator Perspective, and Psychological Distance

IF 4.6 1区文学 Q1 COMMUNICATION

Science Communication Pub Date : 2024-01-30 DOI:10.1177/10755470231222500

Meng Chen, Jilong Wang, Zhian Yin

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Abstract

Psychological distance has long been regarded as a primary obstacle to driving pro-environmental changes. This study seeks to explore narrative attributes that can be strategically harnessed to solve the distal nature of climate change. By adopting a 2 (retrospective vs. prospective temporal perspective) × 2 (first-person vs. third-person narrator perspective) factorial experimental design, the findings suggested that climate change narratives in retrospective and first-person perspectives manifest superiority in reducing psychological distance, with narrative involvement as the explanatory mechanism. In addition, the two forms of narrative involvement, namely transportation and identification, play distinct roles in addressing various types of psychological distance.

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识别气候变化叙事的积极成分：时间视角、叙述者视角和心理距离模型

长期以来，心理距离一直被认为是推动亲环境变革的主要障碍。本研究旨在探索可以战略性地利用的叙事属性，以解决气候变化的疏远性问题。通过采用 2（回顾性视角与前瞻性时间视角）×2（第一人称叙述者视角与第三人称叙述者视角）因子实验设计，研究结果表明，回顾性视角和第一人称视角的气候变化叙述在缩小心理距离方面表现出优势，而叙述参与是解释机制。此外，叙事参与的两种形式，即交通和认同，在解决各种类型的心理距离方面发挥着不同的作用。

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Science Communication COMMUNICATION-

CiteScore

13.50

自引率

4.40%

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