Emotional, cognitive and social-psychological mechanisms underlying deliberate ignorance about climate change

IF 6.9 2区心理学 Q1 PSYCHOLOGY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Current Opinion in Psychology Pub Date : 2025-07-20 DOI:10.1016/j.copsyc.2025.102115

Magdalena Adamus , Jakub Šrol , Beáta Sobotová

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Abstract

Climate change is among the most pressing challenges humanity is currently facing. Despite the large majority of people globally acknowledging this as a fact, many neglect or actively seek to avoid information about it. The present contribution reviews the psychological motivations that may underlie the choice to remain uninformed, delves into associated emotional, cognitive, and social-psychological mechanisms, and offers systematic methodological solutions applicable to scholarly research on deliberate ignorance in the environmental domain. The paper thus lays the foundations for a comprehensive understanding and systematisation of the diverse functions that deliberate ignorance may have in the context of climate change and proposes a research agenda to empirically test its presence, frequency, and long-term consequences.

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故意忽视气候变化背后的情感、认知和社会心理机制

气候变化是人类当前面临的最紧迫挑战之一。尽管全球绝大多数人都承认这是一个事实，但许多人忽视或积极寻求避免有关这方面的信息。本文回顾了可能导致人们选择不知情的心理动机，深入研究了相关的情感、认知和社会心理机制，并提供了适用于环境领域故意无知学术研究的系统方法解决方案。因此，本文为全面理解和系统化在气候变化背景下故意忽视可能产生的各种功能奠定了基础，并提出了一个研究议程，以经验检验其存在、频率和长期后果。

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Current Opinion in Psychology PSYCHOLOGY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY-

CiteScore

12.10

自引率

3.40%

发文量

293

审稿时长

53 days

期刊介绍： Current Opinion in Psychology is part of the Current Opinion and Research (CO+RE) suite of journals and is a companion to the primary research, open access journal, Current Research in Ecological and Social Psychology. CO+RE journals leverage the Current Opinion legacy of editorial excellence, high-impact, and global reach to ensure they are a widely-read resource that is integral to scientists' workflows. Current Opinion in Psychology is divided into themed sections, some of which may be reviewed on an annual basis if appropriate. The amount of space devoted to each section is related to its importance. The topics covered will include: * Biological psychology * Clinical psychology * Cognitive psychology * Community psychology * Comparative psychology * Developmental psychology * Educational psychology * Environmental psychology * Evolutionary psychology * Health psychology * Neuropsychology * Personality psychology * Social psychology