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  • There is debate about whether charitable giving is driven more by empathy or by reasoning about effectiveness. Here, the authors show via meta-analysis that both correlate with giving, but only empathy reliably boosts giving when experimentally increased.

    • Matthew J. Hornsey
    • Jessica L. Spence
    • Cassandra M. Chapman
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    P: 1-10

  • Environmental scientists’ activism – especially civil disobedience – leads to modest declines in their perceived competence and a subtle withdrawal from the scientists’ cause.

    • J. Lukas Thürmer
    • Jeremias Braid
    • Matthew J. Hornsey
    ResearchOpen Access
    Communications Psychology
    Volume: 4, P: 1-14

  • A 3-wave study of 1427 climate-action supporters tests predictors of conventional versus radical climate activism. Radical intentions were rare and linked most strongly to youth, personality and collective victimhood rather than ideology or efficacy.

    • Matthew J. Hornsey
    • Samuel Pearson
    • Winnifred R. Louis
    ResearchOpen Access
    Communications Psychology
    Volume: 4, P: 1-12

  • ChatGPT provides a way of teaching people about climate change. This research reveals that conversations between climate sceptics and ChatGPT reduced climate scepticism, but these effects are modest, inconsistent across studies and prone to decay over time.

    • Matthew J. Hornsey
    • Samuel Pearson
    • Saphira Rekker
    Research
    Nature Climate Change
    Volume: 15, P: 1183-1189

  • How to effectively communicate climate change to the public has long been studied and debated. Through a registered report megastudy, researchers tested the ten most-cited climate change messaging strategies published, finding that many had significant, but small, effects on climate change attitudes.

    • Jan G. Voelkel
    • Ashwini Ashokkumar
    • Robb Willer
    Research
    Nature Climate Change
    Volume: 16, P: 214-225

  • Across four countries, more people agree with misinformation statements about electic vehicles than disagree with them, and conspiracist mentality is the strongest predictor of this agreement. Interactions with artificial intelligence show promise in reducing misinformation agreement.

    • Christian Bretter
    • Samuel Pearson
    • Kevin Winter
    Research
    Nature Energy
    Volume: 10, P: 869-879

  • How accurate are social scientists in predicting societal change, and what processes underlie their predictions? Grossmann et al. report the findings of two forecasting tournaments. Social scientists’ forecasts were on average no more accurate than those of simple statistical models.

    • Igor Grossmann
    • Amanda Rotella
    • Tom Wilkening
    Research
    Nature Human Behaviour
    Volume: 7, P: 484-501

  • Standardized quantitative emissions benchmarking is essential for corporate climate accountability, yet recent literature has critiqued this approach. We argue for structured pluralism with budget compliance — balancing methodological flexibility while preserving the disciplining power of carbon budgets.

    • Saphira Rekker
    • Kaya Axelsson
    • Belinda Wade
    Comments & Opinion
    Nature Climate Change
    Volume: 15, P: 1127-1129

  • Hornsey and Lewandowsky examine psychological and structural reasons for climate change scepticism and describe strategies for reducing the destructive influence of such scepticism.

    • Matthew J. Hornsey
    • Stephan Lewandowsky
    Reviews
    Nature Human Behaviour
    Volume: 6, P: 1454-1464

  • Meta-analysis shows people’s views on climate change have only a small impact on their tendencies to act in climate-friendly ways. These views are affected more by ideology and political orientation than education, sex and experience of extreme weather.

    • Matthew J. Hornsey
    • Emily A. Harris
    • Kelly S. Fielding
    Research
    Nature Climate Change
    Volume: 6, P: 622-626

  • Six surveys show substantial public agreement with misinformation about wind farms. Agreement with diverse contrarian claims is best predicted by participants’ worldviews, most notably the tendency to believe conspiracy theories.

    • Kevin Winter
    • Matthew J. Hornsey
    • Kai Sassenberg
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 15, P: 1-12

  • Public denial of anthropogenic climate change is significant in Western democracies. Experts assume that deniers would only act pro-environmentally if they were convinced that climate change is real, and therefore urge better communication of climate change risks. Research shows that focusing on the positive societal effects of climate change mitigation efforts can motivate deniers’ pro-environmental actions.

    • Paul G. Bain
    • Matthew J. Hornsey
    • Carla Jeffries
    Research
    Nature Climate Change
    Volume: 2, P: 600-603

  • The partisan divide between Republicans and Democrats on climate change is large and shows no signs of narrowing. However, a new analysis shows that Republicans’ climate change attitudes were relatively unstable between 2014–2018, triggering cautious optimism that a tipping point in attitudes might be around the corner.

    • Matthew J. Hornsey
    News & Views
    Nature Climate Change
    Volume: 10, P: 274-275

  • Understanding the drivers of opposition to renewable energy infrastructure is increasingly important. Here the authors find an association between wind farm opposition and belief in conspiracy theories and test the effectiveness of information provision in countering it.

    • Kevin Winter
    • Matthew J. Hornsey
    • Kai Sassenberg
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Energy
    Volume: 7, P: 1200-1207

  • Conspiracy theories have the potential to undermine governments, promote racism, ignite extremism and threaten public health efforts. In this Review, Hornsey et al. synthesize the literature on factors that shape conspiracy beliefs at the individual, intergroup and national level.

    • Matthew J. Hornsey
    • Kinga Bierwiaczonek
    • Karen M. Douglas
    Reviews
    Nature Reviews Psychology
    Volume: 2, P: 85-97

  • Consumer adoption of clean technologies is needed to reduce emissions and meet climate targets, but psychological and contextual barriers slow and even prevent uptake. This Review examines these barriers and discusses the effectiveness of interventions in overcoming them.

    • Anne Günther
    • Lukas Engel
    • Ulf J. J. Hahnel
    Reviews
    Nature Reviews Clean Technology
    Volume: 1, P: 547-565

  • In this Perspective, the authors argue that radical, rather than conventional, interventions are necessary to address climate change. They discuss the definitions and interpretations of the term ‘radical’, and present a typology of radical intervention that addresses the root drivers of climate change.

    • Tiffany H. Morrison
    • W. Neil Adger
    • Derek Van Berkel
    Reviews
    Nature Climate Change
    Volume: 12, P: 1100-1106