%0 Generic %A Amelung, Dorothee %D 2017 %F heidok:22542 %R 10.11588/heidok.00022542 %T The psychology of climate change: From prevention to promotion %U https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/22542/ %X The present work makes the proposition that current debates on climate change may overemphasize the motivational focus of prevention in the sense of regulatory focus theory, possibly hindering necessary societal changes, or giving rise to debates around technological fixes such as climate engineering.