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Multiple crises in mind, biodiversity out of sight? Insights from a behavioral study in Germany

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  • Gruener, Sven
  • Soliev, Ilkhom
  • Pirscher, Frauke

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Biodiversity loss is one of the key challenges of our time. This paper explores how negative information from other societal challenges influences attention toward biodiversity loss. Using an information provision experiment, we remind experimental participants recruited from the general population of Germany about Covid-19 and the war in Ukraine. We find less priority to biodiversity (i.e. priority to address biodiversity loss) after being reminded of these societal crises. However, this effect is both low in magnitude and not statistically significant at any conventional level. In contrast, personal importance of biodiversity to individuals is a much stronger behavioral predictor.

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  • Gruener, Sven & Soliev, Ilkhom & Pirscher, Frauke, 2024. "Multiple crises in mind, biodiversity out of sight? Insights from a behavioral study in Germany," OSF Preprints q4upd_v1, Center for Open Science.
    • Handle: RePEc:osf:osfxxx:q4upd_v1
    DOI: 10.31219/osf.io/q4upd_v1
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