The moving potential of global crises: Threat and future visions are linked to collective action through feelings of being moved.

= 718, conducted between 2021 and 2022 in Central Europe), we tested the moving potential of different threatening and visionary scenarios related to global crises, such as climate change and gender inequality, on collective action. While testing being moved as an underlying emotional process, we accounted for anxiety and anger as parallel processes. The results show that experimentally confronting participants with the threatening negative future consequences of the gender data gap (S1a and 1b) or climate change (S3) increased feelings of being moved that were linked to collective action. Shifting the cognitive focus from threat to a positive future vision (S2 and S3), where collective goals for equality and sustainability will be achieved, also increased feelings of being moved, predicting collective action as well. However, the total effect of global crisis salience on collective action was only positive in Studies 1a and 2, whereas Studies 1b and 3 revealed a null effect. Together, the findings connect threat and future vision salience effects on collective action through an affective-motivational process of being moved. The present findings may generalize to the target population of well-educated Western industrialized countries. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).