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2. Entorhinal grid-like codes and time-locked network dynamics track others navigating through space

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Wagner, Isabella C, Graichen, Luise P, Todorova, Boryana, Lüttig, Andre, Omer, David B, Stangl, Matthias, and Lamm, Claus

Subjects
Biological Psychology, Information and Computing Sciences, Psychology, Neurosciences, 1.1 Normal biological development and functioning, Underpinning research, Mental health, Humans, Brain, Computer Systems, Corpus Striatum, Entorhinal Cortex, Head
Abstract

Navigating through crowded, dynamically changing environments requires the ability to keep track of other individuals. Grid cells in the entorhinal cortex are a central component of self-related navigation but whether they also track others' movement is unclear. Here, we propose that entorhinal grid-like codes make an essential contribution to socio-spatial navigation. Sixty human participants underwent functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) while observing and re-tracing different paths of a demonstrator that navigated a virtual reality environment. Results revealed that grid-like codes in the entorhinal cortex tracked the other individual navigating through space. The activity of grid-like codes was time-locked to increases in co-activation and entorhinal-cortical connectivity that included the striatum, the hippocampus, parahippocampal and right posterior parietal cortices. Surprisingly, the grid-related effects during observation were stronger the worse participants performed when subsequently re-tracing the demonstrator's paths. Our findings suggests that network dynamics time-locked to entorhinal grid-cell-related activity might serve to distribute information about the location of others throughout the brain.

Published
2023

3. The International Climate Psychology Collaboration: Climate change-related data collected from 63 countries.

Author

Doell, Kimberly C., Todorova, Boryana, Vlasceanu, Madalina, Bak Coleman, Joseph B., Pronizius, Ekaterina, Schumann, Philipp, Azevedo, Flavio, Patel, Yash, Berkebile-Wineberg, Michael M., Brick, Cameron, Lange, Florian, Grayson, Samantha J., Pei, Yifei, Chakroff, Alek, van den Broek, Karlijn L., Lamm, Claus, Vlasceanu, Denisa, Constantino, Sara M., Rathje, Steve, and Goldwert, Danielle

Subjects
CLIMATE change mitigation, CLIMATOLOGY, POLITICAL affiliation, CHANGE (Psychology), TRUST
Abstract

Climate change is currently one of humanity's greatest threats. To help scholars understand the psychology of climate change, we conducted an online quasi-experimental survey on 59,508 participants from 63 countries (collected between July 2022 and July 2023). In a between-subjects design, we tested 11 interventions designed to promote climate change mitigation across four outcomes: climate change belief, support for climate policies, willingness to share information on social media, and performance on an effortful pro-environmental behavioural task. Participants also reported their demographic information (e.g., age, gender) and several other independent variables (e.g., political orientation, perceptions about the scientific consensus). In the no-intervention control group, we also measured important additional variables, such as environmentalist identity and trust in climate science. We report the collaboration procedure, study design, raw and cleaned data, all survey materials, relevant analysis scripts, and data visualisations. This dataset can be used to further the understanding of psychological, demographic, and national-level factors related to individual-level climate action and how these differ across countries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2024
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5. Addressing climate change with behavioral science: A global intervention tournament in 63 countries

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Vlasceanu, Madalina, Doell, Kimberly C., Bak-Coleman, Joseph B., Todorova, Boryana, Berkebile-Weinberg, Michael M., Grayson, Samantha J., Patel, Yash, Goldwert, Danielle, Pei, Yifei, Chakroff, Alek, Pronizius, Ekaterina, van den Broek, Karlijn L., Vlasceanu, Denisa, Constantino, Sara, Morais, Michael J., Schumann, Philipp, Rathje, Steve, Fang, Ke, Aglioti, Salvatore Maria, Alfano, Mark, Alvarado-Yepez, Andy J., Andersen, Angélica, Anseel, Frederik, Apps, Matthew A. J., Asadli, Chillar, Awuor, Fonda Jane, Azevedo, Flavio, Basaglia, Piero, Bélanger, Jocelyn J., Berger, Sebastian, Bertin, Paul, Białek, Michał, Bialobrzeska, Olga, Blaya-Burgo, Michelle, Bleize, Daniëlle N. M., Bø, Simen, Boecker, Lea, Boggio, Paulo S., Borau, Sylvie, Bos, Björn, Bouguettaya, Ayoub, Brauer, Markus, Brick, Cameron, Brik, Tymofii, Briker, Roman, Brosch, Tobias, Engelhard, Iris M., Farias, Ana Rita, van Schie, Kevin, van Stekelenburg, Aart, Vlasceanu, Madalina, Doell, Kimberly C., Bak-Coleman, Joseph B., Todorova, Boryana, Berkebile-Weinberg, Michael M., Grayson, Samantha J., Patel, Yash, Goldwert, Danielle, Pei, Yifei, Chakroff, Alek, Pronizius, Ekaterina, van den Broek, Karlijn L., Vlasceanu, Denisa, Constantino, Sara, Morais, Michael J., Schumann, Philipp, Rathje, Steve, Fang, Ke, Aglioti, Salvatore Maria, Alfano, Mark, Alvarado-Yepez, Andy J., Andersen, Angélica, Anseel, Frederik, Apps, Matthew A. J., Asadli, Chillar, Awuor, Fonda Jane, Azevedo, Flavio, Basaglia, Piero, Bélanger, Jocelyn J., Berger, Sebastian, Bertin, Paul, Białek, Michał, Bialobrzeska, Olga, Blaya-Burgo, Michelle, Bleize, Daniëlle N. M., Bø, Simen, Boecker, Lea, Boggio, Paulo S., Borau, Sylvie, Bos, Björn, Bouguettaya, Ayoub, Brauer, Markus, Brick, Cameron, Brik, Tymofii, Briker, Roman, Brosch, Tobias, Engelhard, Iris M., Farias, Ana Rita, van Schie, Kevin, and van Stekelenburg, Aart

Abstract

Effectively reducing climate change requires marked, global behavior change. However, it is unclear which strategies are most likely to motivate people to change their climate beliefs and behaviors. Here, we tested 11 expert-crowdsourced interventions on four climate mitigation outcomes: beliefs, policy support, information sharing intention, and an effortful tree-planting behavioral task. Across 59,440 participants from 63 countries, the interventions' effectiveness was small, largely limited to nonclimate skeptics, and differed across outcomes: Beliefs were strengthened mostly by decreasing psychological distance (by 2.3%), policy support by writing a letter to a future-generation member (2.6%), information sharing by negative emotion induction (12.1%), and no intervention increased the more effortful behavior-several interventions even reduced tree planting. Last, the effects of each intervention differed depending on people's initial climate beliefs. These findings suggest that the impact of behavioral climate interventions varies across audiences and target behaviors.

Published
2024

6. Addressing climate change with behavioral science: A global intervention tournament in 63 countries

Author

Organisations and Sustainability, Leerstoel Engelhard, Experimental psychopathology, Innovation Studies, Clinical Psychology (overkoepelend voor heel KP), Vlasceanu, Madalina, Doell, Kimberly C., Bak-Coleman, Joseph B., Todorova, Boryana, Berkebile-Weinberg, Michael M., Grayson, Samantha J., Patel, Yash, Goldwert, Danielle, Pei, Yifei, Chakroff, Alek, Pronizius, Ekaterina, van den Broek, Karlijn L., Vlasceanu, Denisa, Constantino, Sara, Morais, Michael J., Schumann, Philipp, Rathje, Steve, Fang, Ke, Aglioti, Salvatore Maria, Alfano, Mark, Alvarado-Yepez, Andy J., Andersen, Angélica, Anseel, Frederik, Apps, Matthew A. J., Asadli, Chillar, Awuor, Fonda Jane, Azevedo, Flavio, Basaglia, Piero, Bélanger, Jocelyn J., Berger, Sebastian, Bertin, Paul, Białek, Michał, Bialobrzeska, Olga, Blaya-Burgo, Michelle, Bleize, Daniëlle N. M., Bø, Simen, Boecker, Lea, Boggio, Paulo S., Borau, Sylvie, Bos, Björn, Bouguettaya, Ayoub, Brauer, Markus, Brick, Cameron, Brik, Tymofii, Briker, Roman, Brosch, Tobias, Engelhard, Iris M., Farias, Ana Rita, van Schie, Kevin, van Stekelenburg, Aart, Organisations and Sustainability, Leerstoel Engelhard, Experimental psychopathology, Innovation Studies, Clinical Psychology (overkoepelend voor heel KP), Vlasceanu, Madalina, Doell, Kimberly C., Bak-Coleman, Joseph B., Todorova, Boryana, Berkebile-Weinberg, Michael M., Grayson, Samantha J., Patel, Yash, Goldwert, Danielle, Pei, Yifei, Chakroff, Alek, Pronizius, Ekaterina, van den Broek, Karlijn L., Vlasceanu, Denisa, Constantino, Sara, Morais, Michael J., Schumann, Philipp, Rathje, Steve, Fang, Ke, Aglioti, Salvatore Maria, Alfano, Mark, Alvarado-Yepez, Andy J., Andersen, Angélica, Anseel, Frederik, Apps, Matthew A. J., Asadli, Chillar, Awuor, Fonda Jane, Azevedo, Flavio, Basaglia, Piero, Bélanger, Jocelyn J., Berger, Sebastian, Bertin, Paul, Białek, Michał, Bialobrzeska, Olga, Blaya-Burgo, Michelle, Bleize, Daniëlle N. M., Bø, Simen, Boecker, Lea, Boggio, Paulo S., Borau, Sylvie, Bos, Björn, Bouguettaya, Ayoub, Brauer, Markus, Brick, Cameron, Brik, Tymofii, Briker, Roman, Brosch, Tobias, Engelhard, Iris M., Farias, Ana Rita, van Schie, Kevin, and van Stekelenburg, Aart

Published
2024

7. Addressing climate change with behavioral science:A global intervention tournament in 63 countries

Author

Vlasceanu, Madalina, Doell, Kimberly C., Bak-Coleman, Joseph B., Todorova, Boryana, Berkebile-Weinberg, Michael M., Grayson, Samantha J., Patel, Yash, Goldwert, Danielle, Pei, Yifei, Chakroff, Alek, Pronizius, Ekaterina, van den Broek, Karlijn L., Vlasceanu, Denisa, Constantino, Sara, Morais, Michael J., Schumann, Philipp, Rathje, Steve, Fang, Ke, Aglioti, Salvatore Maria, Alfano, Mark, Alvarado-Yepez, Andy J., Andersen, Angélica, Anseel, Frederik, Apps, Matthew A.J., Asadli, Chillar, Awuor, Fonda Jane, Azevedo, Flavio, Basaglia, Piero, Bélanger, Jocelyn J., Berger, Sebastian, Bertin, Paul, Białek, Michał, Bialobrzeska, Olga, Blaya-Burgo, Michelle, Bleize, Daniëlle N.M., Bø, Simen, Boecker, Lea, Boggio, Paulo S., Borau, Sylvie, Bos, Björn, Bouguettaya, Ayoub, Brauer, Markus, Brick, Cameron, Brik, Tymofii, Briker, Roman, Brosch, Tobias, Buchel, Ondrej, Buonauro, Daniel, Butalia, Radhika, Carvacho, Héctor, Chamberlain, Sarah A.E., Chan, Hang Yee, Chow, Dawn, Chung, Dongil, Cian, Luca, Cohen-Eick, Noa, Contreras-Huerta, Luis Sebastian, Contu, Davide, Cristea, Vladimir, Cutler, Jo, D'Ottone, Silvana, De Keersmaecker, Jonas, Delcourt, Sarah, Delouvée, Sylvain, Diel, Kathi, Douglas, Benjamin D., Drupp, Moritz A., Dubey, Shreya, Ekmanis, Jānis, Elbaek, Christian T., Elsherif, Mahmoud, Engelhard, Iris M., Escher, Yannik A., Etienne, Tom W., Farage, Laura, Farias, Ana Rita, Feuerriegel, Stefan, Findor, Andrej, Freira, Lucia, Friese, Malte, Gains, Neil Philip, Gallyamova, Albina, Geiger, Sandra J., Genschow, Oliver, Gjoneska, Biljana, Gkinopoulos, Theofilos, Goldberg, Beth, Goldenberg, Amit, Gradidge, Sarah, Grassini, Simone, Gray, Kurt, Grelle, Sonja, Griffin, Siobhán M., Grigoryan, Lusine, Grigoryan, Ani, Grigoryev, Dmitry, Gruber, June, Guilaran, Johnrev, Hadar, Britt, Hahnel, Ulf J.J., Halperin, Eran, Harvey, Annelie J., Haugestad, Christian A.P., Herman, Aleksandra M., Hershfield, Hal E., Himichi, Toshiyuki, Hine, Donald W., Hofmann, Wilhelm, Howe, Lauren, Huaman-Chulluncuy, Enma T., Huang, Guanxiong, Ishii, Tatsunori, Ito, Ayahito, Jia, Fanli, Jost, John T., Jovanović, Veljko, Jurgiel, Dominika, Kácha, Ondřej, Kankaanpää, Reeta, Kantorowicz, Jaroslaw, Kantorowicz-Reznichenko, Elena, Kaplan Mintz, Keren, Kaya, Ilker, Kaya, Ozgur, Khachatryan, Narine, Klas, Anna, Klein, Colin, Klöckner, Christian A., Koppel, Lina, Kosachenko, Alexandra I., Kothe, Emily J., Krebs, Ruth, Krosch, Amy R., Krouwel, Andre P.M., Kyrychenko, Yara, Lagomarsino, Maria, Lamm, Claus, Lange, Florian, Lee Cunningham, Julia, Lees, Jeffrey, Leung, Tak Yan, Levy, Neil, Lockwood, Patricia L., Longoni, Chiara, López Ortega, Alberto, Loschelder, David D., Lu, Jackson G., Luo, Yu, Luomba, Joseph, Lutz, Annika E., Majer, Johann M., Markowitz, Ezra, Marsh, Abigail A., Mascarenhas, Karen Louise, Mbilingi, Bwambale, Mbungu, Winfred, McHugh, Cillian, Meijers, Marijn H.C., Mercier, Hugo, Mhagama, Fenant Laurent, Michalakis, Katerina, Mikus, Nace, Milliron, Sarah, Mitkidis, Panagiotis, Monge-Rodríguez, Fredy S., Mora, Youri L., Moreau, David, Motoki, Kosuke, Moyano, Manuel, Mus, Mathilde, Navajas, Joaquin, Nguyen, Tam Luong, Nguyen, Dung Minh, Nguyen, Trieu, Niemi, Laura, Nijssen, Sari R.R., Nilsonne, Gustav, Nitschke, Jonas P., Nockur, Laila, Okura, Ritah, Öner, Sezin, Özdoğru, Asil Ali, Palumbo, Helena, Panagopoulos, Costas, Panasiti, Maria Serena, Pärnamets, Philip, Paruzel-Czachura, Mariola, Pavlov, Yuri G., Payán-Gómez, César, Pearson, Adam R., Pereira da Costa, Leonor, Petrowsky, Hannes M., Pfattheicher, Stefan, Pham, Nhat Tan, Ponizovskiy, Vladimir, Pretus, Clara, Rêgo, Gabriel G., Reimann, Ritsaart, Rhoads, Shawn A., Riano-Moreno, Julian, Richter, Isabell, Röer, Jan Philipp, Rosa-Sullivan, Jahred, Ross, Robert M., Sabherwal, Anandita, Saito, Toshiki, Sarrasin, Oriane, Say, Nicolas, Schmid, Katharina, Schmitt, Michael T., Schoenegger, Philipp, Scholz, Christin, Schug, Mariah G., Schulreich, Stefan, Shreedhar, Ganga, Shuman, Eric, Sivan, Smadar, Sjåstad, Hallgeir, Soliman, Meikel, Soud, Katia, Spampatti, Tobia, Sparkman, Gregg, Spasovski, Ognen, Stanley, Samantha K., Stern, Jessica A., Strahm, Noel, Suko, Yasushi, Sul, Sunhae, Syropoulos, Stylianos, Taylor, Neil C., Tedaldi, Elisa, Tinghög, Gustav, Huynh, Luu Duc Toan, Travaglino, Giovanni Antonio, Tsakiris, Manos, Tüter, İlayda, Tyrala, Michael, Uluğ, Özden Melis, Urbanek, Arkadiusz, Valko, Danila, van der Linden, Sander, van Schie, Kevin, van Stekelenburg, Aart, Vanags, Edmunds, Västfjäll, Daniel, Vesely, Stepan, Vintr, Jáchym, Vranka, Marek, Wanguche, Patrick Otuo, Willer, Robb, Wojcik, Adrian Dominik, Xu, Rachel, Yadav, Anjali, Zawisza, Magdalena, Zhao, Xian, Zhao, Jiaying, Żuk, Dawid, Van Bavel, Jay J., Vlasceanu, Madalina, Doell, Kimberly C., Bak-Coleman, Joseph B., Todorova, Boryana, Berkebile-Weinberg, Michael M., Grayson, Samantha J., Patel, Yash, Goldwert, Danielle, Pei, Yifei, Chakroff, Alek, Pronizius, Ekaterina, van den Broek, Karlijn L., Vlasceanu, Denisa, Constantino, Sara, Morais, Michael J., Schumann, Philipp, Rathje, Steve, Fang, Ke, Aglioti, Salvatore Maria, Alfano, Mark, Alvarado-Yepez, Andy J., Andersen, Angélica, Anseel, Frederik, Apps, Matthew A.J., Asadli, Chillar, Awuor, Fonda Jane, Azevedo, Flavio, Basaglia, Piero, Bélanger, Jocelyn J., Berger, Sebastian, Bertin, Paul, Białek, Michał, Bialobrzeska, Olga, Blaya-Burgo, Michelle, Bleize, Daniëlle N.M., Bø, Simen, Boecker, Lea, Boggio, Paulo S., Borau, Sylvie, Bos, Björn, Bouguettaya, Ayoub, Brauer, Markus, Brick, Cameron, Brik, Tymofii, Briker, Roman, Brosch, Tobias, Buchel, Ondrej, Buonauro, Daniel, Butalia, Radhika, Carvacho, Héctor, Chamberlain, Sarah A.E., Chan, Hang Yee, Chow, Dawn, Chung, Dongil, Cian, Luca, Cohen-Eick, Noa, Contreras-Huerta, Luis Sebastian, Contu, Davide, Cristea, Vladimir, Cutler, Jo, D'Ottone, Silvana, De Keersmaecker, Jonas, Delcourt, Sarah, Delouvée, Sylvain, Diel, Kathi, Douglas, Benjamin D., Drupp, Moritz A., Dubey, Shreya, Ekmanis, Jānis, Elbaek, Christian T., Elsherif, Mahmoud, Engelhard, Iris M., Escher, Yannik A., Etienne, Tom W., Farage, Laura, Farias, Ana Rita, Feuerriegel, Stefan, Findor, Andrej, Freira, Lucia, Friese, Malte, Gains, Neil Philip, Gallyamova, Albina, Geiger, Sandra J., Genschow, Oliver, Gjoneska, Biljana, Gkinopoulos, Theofilos, Goldberg, Beth, Goldenberg, Amit, Gradidge, Sarah, Grassini, Simone, Gray, Kurt, Grelle, Sonja, Griffin, Siobhán M., Grigoryan, Lusine, Grigoryan, Ani, Grigoryev, Dmitry, Gruber, June, Guilaran, Johnrev, Hadar, Britt, Hahnel, Ulf J.J., Halperin, Eran, Harvey, Annelie J., Haugestad, Christian A.P., Herman, Aleksandra M., Hershfield, Hal E., Himichi, Toshiyuki, Hine, Donald W., Hofmann, Wilhelm, Howe, Lauren, Huaman-Chulluncuy, Enma T., Huang, Guanxiong, Ishii, Tatsunori, Ito, Ayahito, Jia, Fanli, Jost, John T., Jovanović, Veljko, Jurgiel, Dominika, Kácha, Ondřej, Kankaanpää, Reeta, Kantorowicz, Jaroslaw, Kantorowicz-Reznichenko, Elena, Kaplan Mintz, Keren, Kaya, Ilker, Kaya, Ozgur, Khachatryan, Narine, Klas, Anna, Klein, Colin, Klöckner, Christian A., Koppel, Lina, Kosachenko, Alexandra I., Kothe, Emily J., Krebs, Ruth, Krosch, Amy R., Krouwel, Andre P.M., Kyrychenko, Yara, Lagomarsino, Maria, Lamm, Claus, Lange, Florian, Lee Cunningham, Julia, Lees, Jeffrey, Leung, Tak Yan, Levy, Neil, Lockwood, Patricia L., Longoni, Chiara, López Ortega, Alberto, Loschelder, David D., Lu, Jackson G., Luo, Yu, Luomba, Joseph, Lutz, Annika E., Majer, Johann M., Markowitz, Ezra, Marsh, Abigail A., Mascarenhas, Karen Louise, Mbilingi, Bwambale, Mbungu, Winfred, McHugh, Cillian, Meijers, Marijn H.C., Mercier, Hugo, Mhagama, Fenant Laurent, Michalakis, Katerina, Mikus, Nace, Milliron, Sarah, Mitkidis, Panagiotis, Monge-Rodríguez, Fredy S., Mora, Youri L., Moreau, David, Motoki, Kosuke, Moyano, Manuel, Mus, Mathilde, Navajas, Joaquin, Nguyen, Tam Luong, Nguyen, Dung Minh, Nguyen, Trieu, Niemi, Laura, Nijssen, Sari R.R., Nilsonne, Gustav, Nitschke, Jonas P., Nockur, Laila, Okura, Ritah, Öner, Sezin, Özdoğru, Asil Ali, Palumbo, Helena, Panagopoulos, Costas, Panasiti, Maria Serena, Pärnamets, Philip, Paruzel-Czachura, Mariola, Pavlov, Yuri G., Payán-Gómez, César, Pearson, Adam R., Pereira da Costa, Leonor, Petrowsky, Hannes M., Pfattheicher, Stefan, Pham, Nhat Tan, Ponizovskiy, Vladimir, Pretus, Clara, Rêgo, Gabriel G., Reimann, Ritsaart, Rhoads, Shawn A., Riano-Moreno, Julian, Richter, Isabell, Röer, Jan Philipp, Rosa-Sullivan, Jahred, Ross, Robert M., Sabherwal, Anandita, Saito, Toshiki, Sarrasin, Oriane, Say, Nicolas, Schmid, Katharina, Schmitt, Michael T., Schoenegger, Philipp, Scholz, Christin, Schug, Mariah G., Schulreich, Stefan, Shreedhar, Ganga, Shuman, Eric, Sivan, Smadar, Sjåstad, Hallgeir, Soliman, Meikel, Soud, Katia, Spampatti, Tobia, Sparkman, Gregg, Spasovski, Ognen, Stanley, Samantha K., Stern, Jessica A., Strahm, Noel, Suko, Yasushi, Sul, Sunhae, Syropoulos, Stylianos, Taylor, Neil C., Tedaldi, Elisa, Tinghög, Gustav, Huynh, Luu Duc Toan, Travaglino, Giovanni Antonio, Tsakiris, Manos, Tüter, İlayda, Tyrala, Michael, Uluğ, Özden Melis, Urbanek, Arkadiusz, Valko, Danila, van der Linden, Sander, van Schie, Kevin, van Stekelenburg, Aart, Vanags, Edmunds, Västfjäll, Daniel, Vesely, Stepan, Vintr, Jáchym, Vranka, Marek, Wanguche, Patrick Otuo, Willer, Robb, Wojcik, Adrian Dominik, Xu, Rachel, Yadav, Anjali, Zawisza, Magdalena, Zhao, Xian, Zhao, Jiaying, Żuk, Dawid, and Van Bavel, Jay J.

Abstract

Effectively reducing climate change requires marked, global behavior change. However, it is unclear which strategies are most likely to motivate people to change their climate beliefs and behaviors. Here, we tested 11 expert-crowdsourced interventions on four climate mitigation outcomes: beliefs, policy support, information sharing intention, and an effortful tree-planting behavioral task. Across 59,440 participants from 63 countries, the interventions' effectiveness was small, largely limited to nonclimate skeptics, and differed across outcomes: Beliefs were strengthened mostly by decreasing psychological distance (by 2.3%), policy support by writing a letter to a future-generation member (2.6%), information sharing by negative emotion induction (12.1%), and no intervention increased the more effortful behavior-several interventions even reduced tree planting. Last, the effects of each intervention differed depending on people's initial climate beliefs. These findings suggest that the impact of behavioral climate interventions varies across audiences and target behaviors.

Published
2024

8. Acute stress reduces effortful prosocial behaviour

Author

Forbes, Paul AG; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0138-8508, Aydogan, Gökhan; https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2187-7912, Braunstein, Julia; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0006-6590, Todorova, Boryana; https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4840-498X, Wagner, Isabella C; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4383-8204, Lockwood, Patricia L, Apps, Matthew AJ, Ruff, Christian C; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3964-2364, Lamm, Claus; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5422-0653, Forbes, Paul AG; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0138-8508, Aydogan, Gökhan; https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2187-7912, Braunstein, Julia; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0006-6590, Todorova, Boryana; https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4840-498X, Wagner, Isabella C; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4383-8204, Lockwood, Patricia L, Apps, Matthew AJ, Ruff, Christian C; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3964-2364, and Lamm, Claus; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5422-0653

Abstract

Acute stress can change our cognition and emotions, but what specific consequences this has for human prosocial behaviour is unclear. Previous studies have mainly investigated prosociality with financial transfers in economic games and produced conflicting results. Yet a core feature of many types of prosocial behaviour is that they are effortful. We therefore examined how acute stress changes our willingness to exert effort that benefits others. Healthy male participants – half of whom were put under acute stress – made decisions whether to exert physical effort to gain money for themselves or another person. With this design, we could independently assess the effects of acute stress on prosocial, compared to self-benefitting, effortful behaviour. Compared to controls (n = 45), participants in the stress group (n = 46) chose to exert effort more often for self- than for other-benefitting rewards at a low level of effort. Additionally, the adverse effects of stress on prosocial effort were particularly pronounced in more selfish participants. Neuroimaging combined with computational modelling revealed a putative neural mechanism underlying these effects: more stressed participants showed increased activation to subjective value in the dorsal anterior cingulate cortex and anterior insula when they themselves could benefit from their exerted effort relative to when someone else could. By using an effort-based task that better approximates real-life prosocial behaviour and incorporating trait differences in prosocial tendencies, our study provides important insights into how acute stress affects prosociality and its associated neural mechanisms.

Published
2024

9. Addressing climate change with behavioral science: A global intervention tournament in 63 countries

Author

Vlasceanu, Madalina, primary, Doell, Kimberly C., additional, Bak-Coleman, Joseph B., additional, Todorova, Boryana, additional, Berkebile-Weinberg, Michael M., additional, Grayson, Samantha J., additional, Patel, Yash, additional, Goldwert, Danielle, additional, Pei, Yifei, additional, Chakroff, Alek, additional, Pronizius, Ekaterina, additional, van den Broek, Karlijn L., additional, Vlasceanu, Denisa, additional, Constantino, Sara, additional, Morais, Michael J., additional, Schumann, Philipp, additional, Rathje, Steve, additional, Fang, Ke, additional, Aglioti, Salvatore Maria, additional, Alfano, Mark, additional, Alvarado-Yepez, Andy J., additional, Andersen, Angélica, additional, Anseel, Frederik, additional, Apps, Matthew A. J., additional, Asadli, Chillar, additional, Awuor, Fonda Jane, additional, Azevedo, Flavio, additional, Basaglia, Piero, additional, Bélanger, Jocelyn J., additional, Berger, Sebastian, additional, Bertin, Paul, additional, Białek, Michał, additional, Bialobrzeska, Olga, additional, Blaya-Burgo, Michelle, additional, Bleize, Daniëlle N. M., additional, Bø, Simen, additional, Boecker, Lea, additional, Boggio, Paulo S., additional, Borau, Sylvie, additional, Bos, Björn, additional, Bouguettaya, Ayoub, additional, Brauer, Markus, additional, Brick, Cameron, additional, Brik, Tymofii, additional, Briker, Roman, additional, Brosch, Tobias, additional, Buchel, Ondrej, additional, Buonauro, Daniel, additional, Butalia, Radhika, additional, Carvacho, Héctor, additional, Chamberlain, Sarah A. 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2024
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11. Acute stress reduces effortful prosocial behaviour

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Forbes, Paul AG, primary, Aydogan, Gökhan, additional, Braunstein, Julia, additional, Todorova, Boryana, additional, Wagner, Isabella C, additional, Lockwood, Patricia L, additional, Apps, Matthew AJ, additional, Ruff, Christian C, additional, and Lamm, Claus, additional

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2024
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13. Acute stress reduces effortful prosocial behaviour

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Forbes, Paul A. G., primary, Aydogan, Gökhan, additional, Braunstein, Julia, additional, Todorova, Boryana, additional, Wagner, Isabella C., additional, Lockwood, Patricia L., additional, Apps, Matthew A. J., additional, Ruff, Christian C., additional, and Lamm, Claus, additional

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2023
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14. Music for autism: a protocol for an international randomized crossover trial on music therapy for children with autism

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Ruiz, Marianna, primary, Groessing, Alexander, additional, Guran, Alexandrina, additional, Koçan, Asena U., additional, Mikus, Nace, additional, Nater, Urs M., additional, Kouwer, Karlijn, additional, Posserud, Maj-Britt, additional, Salomon-Gimmon, Maayan, additional, Todorova, Boryana, additional, Wagner, Isabella C., additional, Gold, Christian, additional, Silani, Giorgia, additional, and Specht, Karsten, additional

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2023
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15. Design and implementation of a replication study: The Music for Autism (M4A) binational assessor-blinded randomised crossover trial

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Gold, Christian, primary, Groessing, Alexander, additional, Ruiz, Marianna, additional, Guran, Alexandrina, additional, Koçan, Asena, additional, Kouwer, Karlijn, additional, Mikus, Nace, additional, Nater, Urs, additional, Posserud, Maj-Britt, additional, Salomon-Gimmon, Maayan, additional, Todorova, Boryana, additional, Wagner, Isabella, additional, Silani, Giorgia, additional, and Specht, Karsten, additional

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2023
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16. Acute stress reduces effortful prosocial behaviour

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Forbes, Paul, primary, Aydogan, Gökhan, additional, Braunstein, Julia Therese, additional, Todorova, Boryana, additional, Wagner, Isabella, additional, Lockwood, Patricia, additional, Apps, Matthew A J, additional, Ruff, Christian Carl, additional, and Lamm, Claus, additional

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2022
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18. Climate change beliefs and self-benefitting vs pro-environmental behavior

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Todorova, Boryana, Doell, Kimberly, Zhang, Lei, Forbes, Paul, Pahl, Sabine, and Lamm, Claus

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Other Psychology, FOS: Psychology, climate change, Social Psychology, pro-environmental behavior, Environmental Studies, Life Sciences, Psychology, decision-making, Public Affairs, Public Policy and Public Administration, Social and Behavioral Sciences, climate change belief, Environmental Policy
Abstract

Reduction of greenhouse gas emissions is the single most crucial factor for mitigating climate change. https://www.un.org/en/climatechange/science/key-findings. Many actions related to reducing one’s own emissions are time-consuming and effortful (e.g. walking instead of taking the car, switching to a green energy supplier etc.). Little is known about how people discount the benefit to the environment by the amount of time and effort required of them. We will use two tasks where people can win money for themselves or for an environmental organization working on CO2 reductions by investing either 1) their time (operationalized as a waiting period) or 2) effort (operationalized as a hand grip force on a force transducer). By systematically varying the amount of time or effort, we can investigate (and quantify) how these costs influence the decision-making process (deciding when it is worth it to invest your time or effort to act pro-environmental or respectively to benefit yourself). Importantly, the decisions are neither hypothetical nor uncertain, as the participants are indeed winning money for themselves or for CO2 reduction by investing their time and effort. Unfortunately, to the best of our knowledge there has been no research comparing self-benefitting to pro-environmental decision-making, so our theoretisizing has been inspired by literature in the prosocial domain. We expect that participants will be more willing to invest their time and effort into benefitting themselves than the environment. These expectations are based on literature on financial prosocial actions (e.g. for Lockwood et al., 2017) & economic theories (e.g. utility maximization principle). The alternative hypothesis is based on research in the field of moral prosocial decision-making, especially harm prevention: it could be that people are more willing to invest time and effort in benefitting the environment than themselves, if they see these acts as a moral obligation. The low-cost hypothesis (Diekmann & Preisendörfer, 1992) suggests that attitudes explain behavior better when cost is low. When the cost is higher, people fail to act in accordance to their attitudes. To the best of our knowledge, this hypothesis has not been tested experimentally by systematically varying the degrees of time and effort required for certain behavior. Therefore, we want to test the effect of climate change key beliefs (measured by a questionnaire) on effortful and time-consuming decision-making for the benefit of the environment, as well as on environmental policy support. Therefore, the main objective of the present project is to answer the following research questions: (1) How is the benefit to the environment discounted by the time and effort required? (2) How do self vs environment-benefitting decision-making differ? (3) How does this relate to individual differences in climate change beliefs?

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2022
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19. Socio-cognitive training impacts emotional and perceptual self-salience but not self-other distinction

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UCL - SSH/IPSY - Psychological Sciences Research Institute, UCL - SSH/IACS - Institute of Analysis of Change in Contemporary and Historical Societies, Bukowski, Henryk, Todorova, Boryana, Boch, Magdalena, Silani, Giorgia, Lamm, Claus, UCL - SSH/IPSY - Psychological Sciences Research Institute, UCL - SSH/IACS - Institute of Analysis of Change in Contemporary and Historical Societies, Bukowski, Henryk, Todorova, Boryana, Boch, Magdalena, Silani, Giorgia, and Lamm, Claus

Abstract

Training to inhibit imitative tendencies has been shown to reduce self-other interferences in both automatic imitation and perspective taking, suggesting that an enhancement of self-other distinction is transferrable from the motor to the cognitive domain. This study examined whether socio-cognitive training specifically enhances self-other distinction, or rather modulates self-salience, that is, the relative attentional priority of information pertaining to the self-perspective over information pertaining to the other person's perspective. Across two experiments, participants trained on one day to either imitate, inhibit imitation, inhibit control stimuli, or they were imitated. On the following day they completed a visuo-tactile affective perspective-taking paradigm measuring both self-other distinction and emotional self-salience, and a shape matching paradigm measuring perceptual self-salience. Results indicate no significant or consistent impact of training on self-other distinction performance, but reveal an increased emotional and perceptual self-salience following training to inhibit imitative tendencies. Together, these findings raise the question whether socio-cognitive training improves performance via enhanced self-other distinction, and invite to consider self-salience as a complementary angle to explain the past, present, and future findings on self-other distinction.

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2021

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