Publications by authors named "Meikel Soliman"
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- Scientists did a big survey with over 59,000 people from 63 countries to understand how people think about climate change!
- They tested different ways to encourage people to believe in climate change and support actions to help the environment!
- The study includes lots of information and data that can help others learn more about what influences people's actions on climate change around the world!
Embarrassment as a public vs. private emotion and symbolic coping behaviour.
Front Psychol
September 2024
In dealing with embarrassment, individuals engage in symbolic coping behaviours (e.g., hiding one's face by wearing sunglasses).
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- Effective global behavior change is crucial for reducing climate change, but it's unclear which strategies motivate people to shift their beliefs and actions.
- A study tested 11 interventions on nearly 60,000 participants across 63 countries, finding small effectiveness primarily among non-skeptics and varied results across different outcomes.
- Key results showed that reducing psychological distance strengthened beliefs, writing a letter to a future generation increased policy support, and inducing negative emotions encouraged information sharing, but no strategy successfully boosted tree-planting efforts.
Background And Objective: Societies require prosocial activities during crises. The COVID-19 pandemic presents individuals with unique challenges that may affect their emotional state leading to reformed personal moral norms. Crucially, personal moral norms are important predictors of moral behaviour.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Increasing competition by nonprofit organizations provides blood donors with many options to engage themselves prosocially (e.g., by donating money or time).
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