{"id":3062,"date":"2025-12-16T11:41:48","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T11:41:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eurosolarnl.nl\/2025\/12\/16\/the-political-psychology-of-climate-denial\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T11:41:48","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T11:41:48","slug":"the-political-psychology-of-climate-denial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eurosolarnl.nl\/nl\/2025\/12\/16\/the-political-psychology-of-climate-denial\/","title":{"rendered":"The political psychology of climate denial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nature Climate Change, Published online: 16 December 2025; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41558-025-02523-7\">doi:10.1038\/s41558-025-02523-7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Climate denial in political discourse is fuelled by psychological factors such as psychological distance, cognitive dissonance, confirmation bias, loss aversion, existential anxiety and social identity. Effective communication strategies addressing deniers\u2019 motivations are crucial as denial undermines urgent climate action.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nature Climate Change, Published online: 16 December 2025; doi:10.1038\/s41558-025-02523-7 Climate denial in political discourse is fuelled by psychological factors such as psychological distance, cognitive dissonance, confirmation bias, loss aversion, existential anxiety and social identity. Effective communication strategies addressing deniers\u2019 motivations are crucial as denial undermines urgent climate action.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_oct_exclude_from_cache":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature"],"rttpg_featured_image_url":null,"rttpg_author":{"display_name":"Admin","author_link":"https:\/\/www.eurosolarnl.nl\/nl\/author\/admin\/"},"rttpg_comment":0,"rttpg_category":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurosolarnl.nl\/nl\/category\/nature\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Nature<\/a>","rttpg_excerpt":"Nature Climate Change, Published online: 16 December 2025; doi:10.1038\/s41558-025-02523-7 Climate denial in political discourse is fuelled by psychological factors such as psychological distance, cognitive dissonance, confirmation bias, loss aversion, existential anxiety and social identity. Effective communication strategies addressing deniers\u2019 motivations are crucial as denial undermines urgent climate action.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eurosolarnl.nl\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eurosolarnl.nl\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eurosolarnl.nl\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eurosolarnl.nl\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eurosolarnl.nl\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eurosolarnl.nl\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3062\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eurosolarnl.nl\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eurosolarnl.nl\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eurosolarnl.nl\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}