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Using person-centred analyses to predict engagement in collective action for the climate
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Using person-centred analyses to predict engagement in collective action for the climate

Susilo Wibisono, Emma F. Thomas, Matthew J. Hornsey, Kelly Fielding, Fathali Moghaddam, Catherine Amiot, Zoe Gath, Olivia Mann and Winnifred Louis
Current research in ecological and social psychology, Vol.10, 100268
2026
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cresp.2026.100268
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Abstract

Psychology Psychology, Experimental Psychology, Social Social Sciences
The last decade has seen a growing number of social movements campaigning for action on climate, and some of this collective action has involved radical behaviours. Despite this, little research has identified the individual difference profiles of people who engage in conventional versus radical collective action for the climate. In two studies with supporters of climate action (Study 1, N = 494; Study 2, N = 498), latent profile analyses found that a well-adjusted profile (i.e., higher agreeableness, extraversion, openness, conscientiousness and identification) is associated with higher conventional action intentions. Another profile, threat-sensitive ambivalents, was characterised by lower identification, conventional intentions, and inconsistent support for radical intentions. Finally, a hierarchy enhancers profile, characterised by higher social dominance orientation, was associated with radical action intentions. The data illuminate the associations of individual differences and group identification and speak to the importance of the power motive for a subset of radical actors.

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