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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2026

Psychological inoculation against climate doom.

Rachel O'Boyle, Tyler Shores, Sander van der Linden

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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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

1 citing paper in PubMed.

  1. Psychological inoculation against climate doom.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Rachel O'BoyleDepartment of Psychology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3EB, United Kingdom.ORCID 0009-0004-5375-4655
Tyler ShoresUniversity of Cambridge ThinkLab, Jesus College, University of Cambridge, Jesus Lane, Cambridge CB5 8BL, United Kingdom.
Sander van der LindenDepartment of Psychology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3EB, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0002-0269-1744

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Individuals encounter "climate doom," extreme portrayals of climate change, on social media. While climate doom may be intended to motivate action, it may also be perceived as manipulative or elicit hopelessness. Yet, no research has examined whether psychological inoculation helps to improve recognition of climate doom or influences engagement with it on social media. In this preregistered study (

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Climate ChangeSocial MediaHumansbehaviorclimate changeinoculationmanipulationsocial media

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PMID42520126
PMCPMC13438516

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