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Countering the dragons of inaction with the feeling of collective efficacy

In the first part of this webinar, Benoit Dardenne explains that the strategies most often used to induce behavior change in favor of the climate - information, carrots or sticks - are not very effective. He goes on to describe several of the dragons of climate inaction, such as the rebound effect, reactance and climate change denial. And he concludes by stressing the importance of moving from the individual to the collective, and of making structural/paradigm shifts.

In the second part of the webinar, Camille Mouguiama-Daouda shows us that the feeling of personal efficacy ("I believe I am capable of doing this action" and "I believe it will have a real impact") is not enough to ensure that this action is actually implemented by the individual. The feeling of collective efficacy ("I believe that the majority of people are capable of doing this" and "I believe that if the collective does it, it will have a real impact") :

• is a better predictor of climate-friendly behavior .
• improves well-being (social ties, more meaning in action, hope based on visible actions)
• and a greater feeling of personnal efficacy.

Speakers

Benoit Dardenne is a professor at ULiège and head of the Social Psychology Department. His teaching and research focus mainly on the psychology of discrimination, on the one hand, and environmental psychology and the question of transition, on the other. From a multidisciplinary perspective, her recent research focuses on the brakes and levers of sustainable behavior.

Camille Mouguiama-Daouda is a doctoral student at the Psychological Sciences Research Institute, UCLouvain. His research focuses on understanding the psychological mechanisms of climate change anxiety.