The following text lists psychosocial mechanisms contributing to climate change and climate action:
Climate Crisis
- Individual belief system
- Cognition:
- complex problem solving research, incl poor performance solving problems with time lag between cause and effect, non-linearity (cf research by Dietrich Dörner)
- Confirmation bias
- Fundamental attribution error
- Mechanisms of creating doubt (cf Naomi Oreskes, Merchants of Doubt)
- Self-serving bias
- Social
- Peer pressure contributing to climate silence, denial and establishing of social norms
- Understanding of well-being
- Secret memorandum of understanding between politicians and voters (http://biosphere.wilmarigl.de/en/?p=141, http://biosphere.wilmarigl.de/en/?p=604)
- Criteria for child maltreatment/child matching the climate crisis
(http://biosphere.wilmarigl.de/en/?p=240)
- Cognition:
Climate Action
- Response shift showing that humans can adapt to difficult situations (eg disease) without loss of quality of life
- Rubicon model of decision making
- Psychological principles of non-violent direct action, civil disobedience/resistance to maximize effects
- Psychological principles of behaviour change (towards climate neutrality)