Greenwash yourself: The relationship between communal and agentic narcissism and pro-environmental behavior

Kesenheimer, Jana S.; Greitemeyer, Tobias

doi:10.1016/j.jenvp.2021.101621

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“…We considered narcissism as a personality trait (instead of a clinical disorder), which can be described as a pattern of grandiosity, self-importance, and self-focus [36]. Narcissism is known to diminish altruistic daily proenvironmental behavior [37]. Moreover, given that narcissists do not value environmental issues in general [38] and there are positive relations between narcissism, materialism, and compulsive buying [39], we expected that after the restrictions of a lockdown, especially narcissistic participants show an increase of materialistic values and care even less about environmental issues.…”

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A “Lockdown” of Materialism Values and Pro-Environmental Behavior: Short-Term Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Kesenheimer

Greitemeyer

2021

Sustainability

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The COVID-19 pandemic led to serious restrictions on peoples’ everyday lives and had severe economic impacts. In contrast, “lockdown” restrictions led to short-term beneficial effects for the environment. In the present study, we compared pro-environmental behavior and materialism values before, during, and after COVID-19 lockdown restrictions in the spring of 2020. The results of an online study using 370 participants showed a decrease in materialism values and pro-environmental sacrificing actions. In contrast, ecologically compatible actions decreased during the lockdown and increased again to the initial level after restrictions were loosened. Moreover, pro-environmental attitudes had a diminishing effect on materialism values, especially during lockdown restrictions. Agreeableness had a diminishing effect on materialism values during the lockdown. In contrast, trait narcissism enhanced materialism values, which were strongest after the lockdown was over. In conclusion, materialism values and pro-environmental behaviors were “locked down” due to COVID-19 restrictions but did not show the expected rebound effects. Practical and theoretical implications are discussed.

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A “Lockdown” of Materialism Values and Pro-Environmental Behavior: Short-Term Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic

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Greitemeyer

2021

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“…Psychological activities and behaviors are inseparable. Psychology governs behavior, and behavior reflects psychology (Kesenheimer and Greitemeyer, 2021). Tourism experience is a comprehensive experience based on superutilitarian experience.…”

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Tourism Experience and Construction of Personalized Smart Tourism Program Under Tourist Psychology

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Zeng

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The present work aims to boost tourism development in China, grasp the psychology of tourists at any time, and provide personalized tourist services. The research object is the tourism industry in Macau. In particular, tourists' experiences are comprehensively analyzed in terms of dining, living, traveling, sightseeing, shopping, and entertaining as per their psychological changes using approaches including big data analysis, literature analysis, and field investigation. In this case, a model of tourism experience formation path is summarized, and a smart travel solution is proposed based on psychological experience. In the end, specific and feasible suggestions are put forward for the Macau tourism industry. Results demonstrate that the psychology-based smart travel solution exerts a significant impact on tourists' tourism experience. Specifically, the weight of secular tourism experience is 0.523, the weight of aesthetic tourism experience is 0.356, and the weight of stimulating tourism experience is 0.121. Tourists prefer travel destinations with excellent urban security and scenic authenticity. They give the two indexes comprehensive scores of 75.14 points and 73.12 points, respectively. The proposed smart travel solution can grasp the psychology of tourists and enhance their tourism experiences. It has strong practical and guiding significances, which can promote constructing smart travel services in Macau and enhancing tourism experiences.

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“…However, beyond this broad view of personality, there is a lack of knowledge about the more extreme spectra. Concerning the “dark” and the “light” sides of personality, research about their relations to PEB is scarce ( Naderi and Strutton, 2015 ; Kesenheimer and Greitemeyer, 2021b ).…”

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“…Psychopathy describes people who are exceptionally impulsive, looking for thrills and have very little empathy ( Lilienfeld and Andrews, 1996 ; Furnham et al, 2013 ). Narcissism is characterized by self-enhancement and status seeking, and reduces daily PEB if “green” behavior has been shown for predominantly altruistic reasons ( Kesenheimer and Greitemeyer, 2021b ). On the other hand, it has also been shown that narcissism can increase PEB in certain situations when PEB goes along with enhanced status or other egoistic benefits ( Griskevicius et al, 2010 ; Kesenheimer and Greitemeyer, 2021b ).…”

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“…Narcissism is characterized by self-enhancement and status seeking, and reduces daily PEB if “green” behavior has been shown for predominantly altruistic reasons ( Kesenheimer and Greitemeyer, 2021b ). On the other hand, it has also been shown that narcissism can increase PEB in certain situations when PEB goes along with enhanced status or other egoistic benefits ( Griskevicius et al, 2010 ; Kesenheimer and Greitemeyer, 2021b ). Sadism is the fourth dimension of the dark tetrad ( Chabrol et al, 2015 ; Međedović and Petrović, 2015 ).…”

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Going Green Is Exhausting for Dark Personalities but Beneficial for the Light Ones: An Experience Sampling Study That Examines the Subjectivity of Pro-environmental Behavior

Kesenheimer

Greitemeyer

2022

Front. Psychol.

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Study 1 examined how personality and attitudes are related to daily pro-environmental behavior (PEB) and whether these relationships are moderated by perceived behavioral costs and benefits. One hundred and seventy-eight participants responded to scales measuring the dark and light side of personality, as well as their pro-environmental attitude. Afterward, they were notified three times a day for 7 days in a row. Each time they reported their PEB that had occurred in the past four hours and indicated their behavioral costs and benefits. Multilevel analyses showed a positive relationship between the frequency of PEB and the light triad of personality and pro-environmental attitude, while the dark tetrad was negatively related to PEB. Unexpectedly, less environmentally aware participants reported to engage in PEB with higher costs and lower benefits than did pro-environmental participants. A second study (N = 159) suggests that less environmentally aware people do not actually engage in PEB with high costs and low benefits, but rather that they only perceive their behavior to be costly and of little benefit. Overall, our findings suggest that the way people perceive their daily PEB is not necessarily shared by others.

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Greenwash yourself: The relationship between communal and agentic narcissism and pro-environmental behavior

Cited by 28 publications

References 29 publications

A “Lockdown” of Materialism Values and Pro-Environmental Behavior: Short-Term Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic

A “Lockdown” of Materialism Values and Pro-Environmental Behavior: Short-Term Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Tourism Experience and Construction of Personalized Smart Tourism Program Under Tourist Psychology

Going Green Is Exhausting for Dark Personalities but Beneficial for the Light Ones: An Experience Sampling Study That Examines the Subjectivity of Pro-environmental Behavior

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