Christoph Klebl

Understanding the role of pluralistic ignorance in biodiversity conservation: A research agenda Most people believe that biodiversity loss is human-caused, yet they may not realize how many others share this belief. Such collective misperceptions…

🌏 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗺𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝘂𝘀 𝗴𝗲𝘁 𝘄𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗻𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻

It’s not that people doubt biodiversity is declining—it’s that we underestimate how many others already share this concern.

In our new Perspective, we review work on pluralistic ignorance and set out a research agenda to:

Conserving nature, resisting change: Political conservatism and evasion of anti-systemic environmentalisms Conventional wisdom and scientific research suggest that political conservatism is at odds with support for environmentalism. Across two survey studie…

Do conservatives oppose all environmentalist initiatives, or does the compatibility of conservatism with environmentalism vary by sociocultural context? (more below!)

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Why Some Inequalities Mobilize and Others Do Not Published in Psychological Inquiry: An International Journal for the Advancement of Psychological Theory (Vol. 36, No. 2, 2025)

Aoife-Marie Foran, @jolanda-jetten.bsky.social, @kellykirkland.bsky.social, @chrisklebl.bsky.social, and Kim Peters discuss how and why social identities are crucial when it comes to mobilizing social change efforts:

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The most consistent finding? People support helping their own citizens affected by climate change way more than providing international aid. Also, both higher wealth AND emissions increase support for mitigation policies suggesting different psychological drivers for different policies (3/3)

We found that in the UK, people who believe their nation has greater historical responsibility for climate change showed stronger support for climate aid. But in our fictional nation experiment, wealth was the stronger predictor. Real vs. hypothetical contexts matter. (2/3)

Should wealthy nations provide climate aid because they CAN afford it, or because they CAUSED the problem? In new research with Samantha Stanley, we explored what motivates people more. bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

Australian Democracy and Human Rights Festival 2025 (#AFDHR, ADHRF25) Australian Democracy and Human Rights Festival - A program of events from June 1 to June 8 2025

We are excited about next week's #afdhr Australian Festival of Democracy and Human Rights! www.socialchangelab.net/democracy202... (June 1 to 8) This one week period aims to bring together scholars, students, advocates and community groups to celebrate, interogate, and challenge conditions today.

Why Do (Or Don’t) People Protect Nature? Insights From Conservation Practice and Environmental Psychology to Respond to the Biodiversity Crisis | Global Environmental Psychology doi.org/10.5964/gep.... - I have no idea, but we wrote a paper anyway.

Denying responsibility, shifting blame to individuals, and promoting weak, nontransformative solutions—just some of the tactics fossil fuel companies use to confuse the public and delay climate action.

Opinion | ‘We Tire Very Quickly of Being Told That Everything Is on Fire’ Why invoking a public health crisis too often can lead society astray.

Crisis framing activates fatalism (a sense the world is beyond repair), which makes people apathetic.

A far better strategy for inspiring action is to show that change is not only desirable but also possible www.nytimes.com/2024/11/21/opinion/public-health-crisis-america.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

A line graph depicting global oil production measured in terawatt-hours (TWh) from 1900 to 2023, highlighting production trends for various countries, including the United States, Russia, and Saudi Arabia. The graph shows That the US produces by far more oil than any other country.

The convicted felon Donald Trump plans to declare a "national energy emergency," but there's no emergency. The US produces more oil and fossil gas than any other country. There is, however, a climate emergency.

New paper in BJSP! We (me, JanetSwim & JohnFraser) explore how social support can promote climate action. We find that those receiving more social support have more hope about taking action, and this action hope predicts more intended and self-reported behavior. Read here: shorturl.at/HiZHt

a chart showing the total volume of fossil fuel exports measured in their climate impacts - CO2 released when burned in the destination country

cumulative emissions of about 3 gt

The latest data released by the Australian government shows that while the last third of the previous conservative leadership saw a decline in fossil fuel exports, the Labor party has overseen a steady resurgence - and is forecasted to continue that resurgence

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Very interesting paper!

1️⃣ post here!
Despite decades of research, why is positive pro-environmental behavioral spillover so hard to achieve?
@greggsparkman.bsky.social and my review highlights that social and institutional drivers are needed to spur rapid positive spillover
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Sounds fascinating! I will send you an email if you don't mind!?

thank you!

Just wondering - Does anyone here study the overlap between climate change and biodiversity loss? Would love to connect :)

‘Ironic’: climate-driven sea level rise will overwhelm major oil ports, study shows Ports including in Saudi Arabia and the US projected to be seriously damaged by a metre of sea level rise

Ironic indeed. 98% of Saudi Aramco exports, as well as Rotterdam, Houston, Galveston, Singapore, Shanghai in danger zones.
“This analysis shows that relying on fossil fuels in a warming world is a path to disaster, not energy security."
🌏 @iccinet.bsky.social #ClimateCrisis #sealevelrise

Most people call it Stollen but in some regions it’s called eine Stolle :)

Perceived support for climate policy in Australia: The asymmetrical influence of voting behaviour A comprehensive policy response from wealthy nations is a necessary step to limiting catastrophic climate change. Community attitudes toward policy, a…

New from me, Samantha Stanley, and @mentaloose.bsky.social, study on Australians’ perceptions of climate policy support.

Australians underestimate climate policy support, with some fascinating effects based on voting behaviour. More below 1/ #climatesky
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Congrats Charlie!! 😊

This has implications for policymakers and organisations working to advocate for diversity conservation. Instead of relying on economic arguments, appealing to the inherent value of diversity may lead to more effective and enduring concern for diversity. 6/6

For linguistic diversity, preservation of human history, culture & knowledge were the main reasons. 5/6

In a thematic analysis, we identified main reasons for preserving biodiversity: ecosystem balance, species' rights & biodiversity's importance to humanity. 4/6

In trade-off scenarios, people preferred scenarios with more animal/plant deaths that preserved species, over those with fewer deaths that led to extinction – showing a willingness to sacrifice more individuals to prevent species loss. (similar patterns for language diversity)

Individuals assigned greater moral value to animals, plants and – to a lesser extent – languages when diversity was threatened, compared to when it was not threatened, despite an equal number of entities at risk. 2/6

Happy to share our new paper published in BJSP. We found that individuals assigned moral value to both biodiversity and cultural diversity independent from instrumental or individual-centric concerns. 1/6 bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Excited to share our new research! We investigated how social class shapes attitudes toward philanthropy and found that individuals from higher social classes view charitable giving more favourably and view it as a solution to societal issues. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...