A representative survey experiment of motivated climate change denial

Nature Climate Change, Published online: 02 February 2024; doi:10.1038/s41558-023-01910-2

The desire to justify carbon-emitting behaviours could influence people’s climate change beliefs due to motivated cognition. Based on a pre-registered survey experiment in the United States, the study, however, finds no evidence supporting the claim in explaining climate denial and environmentally harmful behaviour.