In a recent special section on Sustainability and Emotion, Schneider and van der Linden present how sustainability science could benefit from affective science to address important unanswered questions about the psychological and affective antecedents of people's engagement in relatively high-impact sustainable behaviors. Here, we underline the importance of combining the motivational role of positive affect with an impact-focused research agenda to understand the causal role of affect in sustainable decision-making and to develop communication strategies harnessing affective mechanisms to promote impactful sustainable behaviors. We present potential links connecting affective experience with perceived impact and adoption of sustainable behaviors. Finally, we argue for communication strategies aiming to enhance positive affect associated with high-impact behaviors.

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可持续决策中的影响和影响忽视


在最近关于可持续性和情感的特别章节中，施耐德和范德林登介绍了可持续性科学如何从情感科学中受益，以解决有关人们参与相对高影响力的可持续行为的心理和情感前因的重要未解答问题。在这里，我们强调将积极情感的激励作用与以影响为重点的研究议程相结合的重要性，以了解情感在可持续决策中的因果作用，并制定利用情感机制的沟通策略来促进有影响力的可持续行为。我们提出了将情感体验与感知影响和可持续行为采用联系起来的潜在联系。最后，我们主张旨在增强与高影响力行为相关的积极影响的沟通策略。