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ArticlePsychological science2025

What We Think Others Think and Do About Climate Change: A Multicountry Test of Pluralistic Ignorance and Public-Consensus Messaging.

Sandra J Geiger, Jana K Köhler, Zenith N C Delabrida, Karla A Garduño-Realivazquez, Christian A P Haugestad, Hirotaka Imada, Aishwarya Iyer, Carya Maharja, Daniel C Mann, Michalina Marczak and 10 more

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Article in Psychological science, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

20 authors.

Sandra J GeigerEnvironmental Psychology Unit, Department of Cognition, Emotion, and Methods in Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, University of Vienna, Austria.ORCID 0000-0002-3262-5609
Jana K KöhlerEnvironmental Psychology Unit, Department of Cognition, Emotion, and Methods in Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, University of Vienna, Austria.ORCID 0000-0002-1581-3202
Zenith N C DelabridaDepartment of Psychology, Federal University of Sergipe, Brazil.ORCID 0000-0003-1878-6040
Karla A Garduño-RealivazquezDepartment of Accounting, University of Sonora, Mexico.ORCID 0000-0002-5199-9163
Christian A P HaugestadDepartment of Psychology, University of Oslo, Norway.ORCID 0000-0001-6787-1992
Hirotaka ImadaResearch Institute for Future Design, Kochi University of Technology, Japan.ORCID 0000-0003-3604-4155
Aishwarya IyerDepartment of Psychology, Christ University, India.ORCID 0000-0002-8277-8830
Carya MaharjaYayasan Puspa Hanuman Indonesia, Indonesia.ORCID 0000-0001-9581-8283
Daniel C MannKonrad Lorenz Institute of Ethology, University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, Austria.ORCID 0000-0002-6260-8615
Michalina MarczakSchool of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0002-2270-811X
Olivia MelvilleDepartment of Biology, University of Victoria, Canada.ORCID 0009-0004-5024-7105
Sari R R NijssenEnvironmental Psychology Unit, Department of Cognition, Emotion, and Methods in Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, University of Vienna, Austria.ORCID 0000-0002-0340-8509
Nattavudh PowdthaveeDepartment of Economics, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.ORCID 0000-0002-9345-4882
Radisti A PraptiwiResearch Center for Ecology and Ethnobiology, National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN), Indonesia.ORCID 0000-0002-1657-6982
Gargi RanadeThe Shallow End Collective, Bangalore, India.
Claudio D RosaDevelopment and Environment, State University of Santa Cruz, Brazil.ORCID 0000-0002-1939-2716
Valeria VitaleDepartment of Psychology of Developmental and Socialization Processes, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy.ORCID 0000-0003-1073-3390
Małgorzata WinkowskaDepartment of Ecology and Environmental Science, Umeå University, Sweden.
Lei ZhangCentre for Human Brain Health, School of Psychology, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0002-9586-595X
Mathew P WhiteCognitive Science Hub, University of Vienna, Austria.ORCID 0000-0002-4168-7289

Funding

Non-US Government Research Support type
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Most people believe in human-caused climate change, yet this public consensus can be collectively underestimated (

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Climate ChangeConsensusPublic OpinionAdultCross-Cultural ComparisonFemaleHumansMaleMiddle AgedYoung Adultclimate changecross-country generalizabilitycultural tightness-loosenesspluralistic ignorancesocial norm

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PMCPMC13428961

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