Abstract
The climate crisis calls for radical action, but what drives people to engage in climate protest? We recruited respondents during protests of Extinction Rebellion in the Netherlands and examined how intentions to engage in normative action (e.g., protest march), moderate nonnormative action (e.g., roadblock), and openness to more extreme nonnormative action (e.g., property damage) related to perceived injustice and trust in authorities. Study 1 found that perceived injustice was linked to all action intentions, while trust was only negatively associated with nonnormative protest. Study 2 revealed that nonnormative protest was specifically related to lower trust in democracy, judges, and the police. Furthermore, moderate action intentions were related to various injustice perceptions, whereas extreme actions were exclusively linked to social injustice.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 757-775 |
| Number of pages | 19 |
| Journal | Journal of Applied Social Psychology |
| Volume | 54 |
| Issue number | 12 |
| Early online date | 10 Oct 2024 |
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| Publication status | Published - Dec 2024 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© 2024 The Author(s). Journal of Applied Social Psychology published by Wiley Periodicals LLC.
Funding
We would like to thank the students Bo Franssen, Milou Rutenfrans, Julia de Vos, Frans de Waijer, Simon de Vries, Amber van den Beld, Sanne Mackor, and Lorenzo Macnack for helping with the data collection of Study 1. In addition, we would like to thank the students Hester Kloet, Hannah Zuidhof, Maartje van der Schoot, and Hugo Lingers for helping with the data collection of Study 2. The research leading to these results was partially funded by the Dutch Research Council (NWO) under project number STEVIN.2018.1.
| Funders | Funder number |
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| Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek | STEVIN.2018.1 |
| Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek |
