TY  - UNPD
A1  - Andre, Peter
A1  - Boneva, Teodora
A1  - Chopra, Felix
A1  - Falk, Armin
T1  - Misperceived social norms and willingness to act against climate change
N2  - We document the individual willingness to act against climate change and study the role of social norms in a large sample of US adults. Individual beliefs about social norms positively predict pro-climate donations, comparable in strength to universal moral values and economic preferences such as patience and reciprocity. However, we document systematic misperceptions of social norms. Respondents vastly underestimate the prevalence of climate-friendly behaviors and norms. Correcting these misperceptions in an experiment causally raises individual willingness to act against climate change as well as individual support for climate policies. The effects are strongest for individuals who are skeptical about the existence and threat of global warming.
T3  - SAFE working paper - 414 
KW  - Climate change
KW  - climate behavior
KW  - climate policies
KW  - social norms
KW  - misperception
KW  - beliefs
KW  - economic preferences
KW  - moral values
KW  - survey experiments
Y1  - 2024
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/71558
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-715582
UR  - https://ssrn.com/abstract=4740469
N1  - Funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) under Germany’s Excellence Strategy – EXC 2126/1– 390838866. Funding by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) through CRC TR 224 (Project A01, B03) is gratefully acknowledged. The activities of the Center for Economic Behavior and Inequality (CEBI) are financed by the Danish National Research Foundation, Grant NRF134. The study obtained ethics approval from the German Association for Experimental Economic Research (#Xx5i4FQa, 02/09/2021).
PB  - SAFE
CY  - Frankfurt am Main
ER  -