"If it weren't for COVID-19…": Counterfactual arguments influence support for climate change policies <i>via</i> cross-domain moral licensing or moral consistency effects.

Conversely, and consistent with our H2 b, participants with higher endorsement of the anti-COVID measures showed higher support for the policy in the experimental condition than in the control condition, although the conditional effect at high levels of endorsement only approached significance, B = 0.43, SE = 0.25; t = 1.71, p = 0 .091, 95% CI [−0.07; 0.93].

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