Showing papers in "Journal of Environmental Psychology in 2016"

TL;DR: In this article, the authors conducted a large mail survey in Switzerland to investigate which determinants explain the self-reported amount of food waste in households, taking into account personal norms, knowledge, household planning habits and the good provider identity.

TL;DR: In this paper, a field experiment was conducted among 800 participants, who received either an intervention promoting sustainable behaviours, or were in a no-intervention control condition, and half of the households had recently relocated, and were matched with households that had not relocated.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors built and tested a theoretical model linking spiritual leadership with employee pro-environmental behavior via several intervening variables and found that spiritual leadership positively affected workplace spirituality, which in turn influenced both intrinsic motivation and environmental passion.

TL;DR: In this paper, a model focusing on the value-belief-norm (VBN) theory and including different kinds of social influence (normative and informational) and attitude towards the target behaviour was tested on the intention to use renewable energy sources at the household level.

TL;DR: In this paper, a randomised, cross-over, field-based trial compared psychological and physiological responses of unstressed individuals to self-paced 30-min walks in three pleasant environments: residential (urban), natural (green), and natural with water (blue).

TL;DR: The authors applied meta-analysis to test within the theory of planned behavior (TPB) the moderating role of country (development) and national culture (individualism-collectivism) characteristics, using the most recent research (2004-2014), involving 66 articles from 28 countries.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss prior findings that enhancing perceptions of collective efficacy encourages pro-environmental behavior and suggest that collective efficacy manipulations affect proenvironmental intentions through increasing both collective and self-efficacy.

TL;DR: In an immersive virtual reality (IVR) study as mentioned in this paper, participants determined reachability and comfort distances from virtual male/female children, young/old adults while standing still (passive) or approaching them (active).

TL;DR: The authors used an experience sampling design to examine how pride and guilt relate to daily pro-environmental behavior and found that pride about environmental behavior was positively related to subsequent engagement in proenvironmental behaviour (i.e., during the following 2.5h time period).

TL;DR: This paper found that inaccurate perceptions of others' opinions contribute to self-silencing among those concerned about climate change and that correcting pluralistic ignorance increases concerned participants' willingness to discuss climate change.

TL;DR: In this paper, a systematic search of social science databases revealed 31 works that directly address place attachment in relation to natural hazard risk or natural environmental risks (seismic, volcanic, etc.).

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the social climate and student attendance as mediators of the relation between the physical environment and academic achievement and found that academic achievement is linked to building condition mediated by the socialclimate and student attending.

TL;DR: This paper found that participants with a distant focus relied more on scepticism to represent risks and make decisions about supporting climate change, whereas those with a proximal perspective rely more on fear when making such judgements.

TL;DR: The authors examined the relationship between place attachment, the theory of planned behaviour and place-protective action and found that people who thought their actions had influenced decision making were more likely to intend to remain civically engaged.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors suggest that self-efficacy may be an important motivator of environmental spillover, and could be used to help encourage engagement in more challenging pro-environmental behaviours.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors conducted a meta-analysis of 22 studies and found that financial incentives have a small-to-medium effect on behavior while incentives were in place and after they were discontinued.

TL;DR: This paper found that environmentalist threat consistently, strongly and uniquely accounted for the link between right-wing ideology and opposition to environmentalist policies and climate change denial, over and above views that the environment exists for economic exploitation and other relevant beliefs about the environment.

TL;DR: This paper found that labeling those who perceived they performed many pro-environmental behaviors as "environmentalists" led to stronger environmental self-identity with no simultaneous reduction of guilt, increasing the total positive spillover.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate the 2011 Welsh Single Use Carrier Bag Charge (SUCBC) and whether spillover occurs in other behaviours and attitudes, and conclude that the Welsh SUCBC effectively encouraged bag re-use, but with minimal changes in other environmental attitudes and behaviours, due to the external motivation to change behaviour.

TL;DR: This paper explored whether perceived restorativeness and it subscales would mediate the effects of perceived biodiversity, perceived naturalness, walk duration and perceived intensity on emotional well-being.

TL;DR: The authors found evidence for negative spillover among Democrats only, which was mediated by environmental identity: Democrats who recycled the water bottle had lower environmental identities and were less supportive of the green fund than those in the control condition.

TL;DR: For instance, this paper found that place memory and place attachment can be implicated in restorative perceptions of place, and suggested the relevance of top-down processing of restorative environments according to past experiences and individual attachments.

TL;DR: In this paper, gender differences in an expanded model of the theory of planned behavior (specific attitude, subjective norm, perceived behavioral control and moral norm) to explain the willingness to pay for the conservation of the Monfrague national park located in the province of Caceres (Extremadura, Spain).

TL;DR: In this paper, a quasi-field experiment was conducted in an open-plan office of 135 employees to investigate the relationship between the quality of the physical environment and employee satisfaction, finding that significant improvements were found in nearly all inquired aspects of environmental satisfaction.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used the theory of planned behavior to identify the psychological factors that influence farmers' intention to adopt improved natural grassland, an innovation that increases productivity at farm level and reduces damage to the environment.

TL;DR: In this article, a field study was conducted in four adjacent neighbourhoods in the city of Lisbon, in order to explore the influence of place identity on the perception of the participants' own neighbourhood and its residents (in-group) and of the other neighbourhoods and their residents (out-groups).

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored the influence of perceived changes in the urban environment on residents' place attachment in Zurich, Switzerland. But, their work was limited to the cross-sectional design of the survey.

TL;DR: The authors found that systems thinkers tend to believe in scientific consensus, recognize risks posed by climate change, and support policy interventions to address climate change; systems thinking was negatively related to conspiracist and free-market ideation.

TL;DR: This article found that the high-compassion condition elicited greater self-reported compassion and stronger belief that a climate-related humanitarian crisis was caused by human activities, both of which mediated increased policy support.

TL;DR: The Extended Inclusion of Nature in Self (EINS) scale as discussed by the authors is a four-item version of the original INS, which is based on the concept of spatial metaphors.