Q2. What are the future works mentioned in the paper "Don't be satisfied, identify! strengthening positive spillover by connecting pro-environmental behaviors to an "environmentalist" label" ?
More broadly, it offers an additional demonstration of how interpretation of their past behavior can alter the way the authors view ourselves and influence their future attitudes and behaviors ( Albarracín & McNatt, 2005 ; Bem, 1972 ; Burger & Caldwell, 2003 ; Cornelissen et al., 2007 ; 2008 ). Future spillover research should specifically examine if individuals differ in their guilt and identity responses to reminders of their past pro-environmental ( or environmentally harmful ) behaviors, and see if one of these responses is more widely found depending upon the population examined. Future work should examine how environmentalist labeling impacts spillover for different segments of the population. Future spillover research could address this issue through a repeated measures design, providing questionnaires both before and after participants perform a pro-environmental behavior or receive an environmentalist label, examining changes from baseline.
Q3. Why did there be no negative spillover effect?
Due to the lack of any negative spillover pathway, there was now an overall positive totalspillover effect from past behavior to concern about climate change, and a weaker positive but non-significant total spillover effect to policy support.
Q4. What did the study show about the effects of labeling on policy support?
Labeling people “environmentalists” after they remembered performing many past pro-environmental behaviors strengthened their environmental self-identity, which in turn increased both their concern about climate change and their support for different sustainability policies on campus.
Q5. How many miles will the shuttle drive from campus?
The shuttle will now drive from 8am-4am, and the route will be extended to take students to grocery stores, office appointments, and other residences within 2 miles of campus.
Q6. What is the effect of the manipulation on environmental attitudes?
Since the manipulation altered feelings of environmental self-identity and guilt in oppositedirections, it was possible that the manipulation still impacted climate change concern and policy support, but did so differently through these two mediators.
Q7. What should be the main purpose of the research?
research should investigate whether the label causes anger or reactance among political conservatives leading to negative spillover.
Q8. What are the main reasons why people perform pro-environmental behaviors?
pro-environmental behaviors may often be performed for non-environmental reasons such as to save money (e.g., Evans et al., 2013) or to gain status (e.g., Griskevicius, Tybur, & van den Bergh, 2010).
Q9. What is the purpose of Study 2?
Study 2 was specifically designed to examine the effect of labeling people“environmentalists” based upon their previous pro-environmental behaviors, providing people with a label to match their many behaviors and purposefully withholding that label from those with few behaviors.
Q10. What are the main factors that influence the spillover effect?
The studies also examined ifenvironmental self-identity and guilt serve as mediators that help explain why past behavior can spillover into people’s environmental attitudes.
Q11. What is the effect of the initial behavior on people's environmental attitudes?
Depending upon the initial behavior itself, the situation in which the initial behavior was performed, and the measured spillover behavior or attitude, researchers may have been investigating a scenario in which the guilt and environmental self-identity pathways were weaker or stronger.
Q12. What are the behaviors that are related to a person’s carbon footprint?
Each of these behaviors decrease the amount of greenhouse gas emissions released into the atmosphere, and limit a person’s individual impact on climate change.
Q13. What is the common way to link pro-environmental behaviors to environmental self-identity?
purposefully linking people’s past pro-environmental behaviors to an environmental self-identity may increase the likelihood of positive spillover.
Q14. What was the effect of the manipulation on environmental self-identity?
As hypothesized, the manipulation had a significant positive effect on environmental self-identity, and a positive but non-significant impact on guilt (see Figure 1).
Q15. What is the effect of past behavior on people’s attitudes towards environmental issues?
Taken together, these studies demonstrate that perception of past pro-environmentalbehavior can impact people’s environmental attitudes in terms of concern about specific issues such as climate change as well as support for sustainability policies that would directly impact their lives.