Replication Data for: "Increasing stated climate mitigation behaviors without increasing partisan belief in climate change"

Partisan polarization has crystallized climate beliefs, and slowly changing beliefs is considered a prerequisite to motivating action. However, the narrowing window for climate mitigation demands urgent behavior change. Using preregistered survey experiments on solar panels (n = 9,298) and electric vehicles (n = 9,903), I find that messages from co-partisan elected officials increase stated mitigation behaviors among both Republicans and Democrats, even without increasing their belief in climate change. Thus, interventions seeking to slowly increase climate belief should instead seek to directly increase mitigation behaviors. Furthermore, messages about climate change also make Republicans more likely to adopt mitigation behaviors, challenging the scholarly consensus that discussing climate change triggers a "backfire effect" reducing Republicans' mitigation behaviors. Finally, I apply the theory of "credibility-enhancing displays" to politics for the first time. I find limited evidence that partisan elites become more effective at motivating mitigation behaviors when they themselves engage in those behaviors.