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Siegmar Otto
Researcher at University of Hohenheim
Publications - 50
Citations - 1810
Siegmar Otto is an academic researcher from University of Hohenheim. The author has contributed to research in topics: Climate change & Prosocial behavior. The author has an hindex of 16, co-authored 42 publications receiving 1220 citations. Previous affiliations of Siegmar Otto include Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg.
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Nature-based environmental education of children: Environmental knowledge and connectedness to nature, together, are related to ecological behaviour
Siegmar Otto,Pamela Pensini +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluated the effect of participation in nature-based environmental education in 4th to 6th graders (N = 255) and found that increased participation in such education was related to greater ecological behavior, mediated by increases in environmental knowledge and connectedness to nature.
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Co-benefits of addressing climate change can motivate action around the world
Paul G. Bain,Paul G. Bain,Taciano L. Milfont,Yoshihisa Kashima,Michał Bilewicz,Guy Doron,Ragna B. Garðarsdóttir,Valdiney Veloso Gouveia,Yanjun Guan,Lars-Olof Johansson,Carlota Pasquali,Victor Corral-Verdugo,Juan Ignacio Aragonés,Akira Utsugi,Christophe Demarque,Siegmar Otto,Joonha Park,Martin Soland,Linda Steg,Roberto González,Nadezhda Lebedeva,Ole Jacob Madsen,Claire Wagner,Charity S. Akotia,Tim Kurz,José L. Saiz,P. Wesley Schultz,Gró Einarsdóttir,Nina M. Saviolidis +28 more
TL;DR: This paper investigated whether potential co-benefits of addressing climate change could motivate pro-environmental behavior around the world for both those convinced and unconvinced that climate change is real.
Co-benefits of addressing climate change can motivate action around the world
Paul G. Bain,Paul G. Bain,Taciano L. Milfont,Yoshihisa Kashima,Michał Bilewicz,Guy Doron,Ragna B. Garðarsdóttir,Valdiney Veloso Gouveia,Yanjun Guan,Lars-Olof Johansson,Carlota Pasquali,Victor Corral-Verdugo,Juan Ignacio Aragonés,Akira Utsugi,Christophe Demarque,Siegmar Otto,Joonha Park,Martin Soland,Linda Steg,Roberto González,Nadezhda Lebedeva,Ole Jacob Madsen,Claire Wagner,Charity S. Akotia,Tim Kurz,José L. Saiz,P. Wesley Schultz,Gró Einarsdóttir,Nina M. Saviolidis +28 more
TL;DR: This paper investigated whether potential co-benefits of addressing climate change could motivate pro-environmental behavior around the world for both those convinced and unconvinced that climate change is real.
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Childhood Origins of Young Adult Environmental Behavior
TL;DR: Among this set of childhood factors, maternal education and childhood time spent outdoors were independent predictors of positive changes in environmental behavior from early childhood to young adulthood.
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Ecological behavior across the lifespan: Why environmentalism increases as people grow older
Siegmar Otto,Florian G. Kaiser +1 more
TL;DR: This paper found that the more exposed people are to information that deals with environmental-conservation-relevant topics, the more pronounced their ecological engagement, and that learning rather than maturity explained the relation between age and self-reported ecological behavior.