- PII
- S0205-95920000338-8-1
- DOI
- 10.7868/S20000338-8-1
- Publication type
- Article
- Status
- Published
- Authors
- Abstract
- The attitudes toward global risks are considered as personal or group characteristics of anticipating, experiencing and interpreting not only the global risks themselves, but also the activities of in-group or out-group that are directed on preventing or creating and using them. The article examines the psychological aspects that affect evaluation and prevention of global risks: lack of experience in autobiographic or collective memory; discounting them as a distant future; oversimplified solutions provoked by collective anxiety; need for assets that are hard to mobilize quickly (social trust, global identity, group reflexivity); corruption of personal and group belief in ability to control own future; psychological ambivalence of means of prevention; embeddedness in the inter-group relations and susceptibility to manipulations. The structure of individual and group attitudes toward global risks are proposed (motivational, cognitive, affective, behavioral). The socio-psychological antecedents of global risks prevention are analysed. A positive image of future and clarification of opportunities are more effective in global long-term risk prevention then alarmist approach. The role of global social identity and online communities in global risks prevention is discussed. The directions for further psychological research are proposed.
- Keywords
- global risks, catastrophes, collective representations of future, cognitive biases, time perspective, trust, group reflexivity, online communities, global identity
- Date of publication
- 05.11.2025
- Year of publication
- 2025
- Number of purchasers
- 8
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- 829
RAS Social ScienceПсихологический журнал Psikhologicheskii zhurnal
- ISSN (Print) 0205-9592
- ISSN (Online) 3034-588X
THE ATTITUDES TOWARD GLOBAL RISKS: SOCIO-PSYCHOLOGICAL ANALYSIS
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