Climate Change Helplessness and the (De)moralization of Individual Energy Behavior

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• Publication year

  2017

• Venue

  Journal of experimental psychology. Applied

• Publication date

  2017-03-04

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Environmental Science, Psychology

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  DOI 10.1037/xap0000105PMID 28165276
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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