The dynamics of humanistic and biospheric altruism in conflicting choice environments

Conte, Beatrice; Hahnel, Ulf J.J.; Brosch, Tobias

doi:10.1016/j.paid.2020.110599

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“…Participants who expressed more concern about climate change were similarly more likely to offer discounts to low-income households, and schools/hospitals. This is consistent with previous research linking environmental and altruistic concerns [46,47]. Future research, separating environmental and altruistic interindividual differences can help to disentangle the influence of environmental and altruistic drivers of trading decisions in PCM.…”

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“…Finally, given the relevance of PCM as an instrument to reduce carbon emissions [44,45], we tested whether differences in climate change beliefs explain variance in trading decisions. This approach is further in line with the fundamental assumption that environmental and altruistic concerns and values are largely interconnected [46,47].…”

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confidence: 53%

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Pricing decisions in peer-to-peer and prosumer-centred electricity markets: Experimental analysis in Germany and the United Kingdom

Hahnel¹,

Fell²

2021

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Prosumer-centred electricity market models such as peer-to-peer communities can enable optimized supply and demand of locally generated electricity as well as an active participation of citizens in the energy transition. An important element of active participation is the improved ability of community members to identify and choose who they transact with in a much more granular way than is usual. Despite this key novelty and the social core of prosumer-centred markets, little is known about how citizens would trade with different actors involved in the system. Here, we report a preregistered cross-national experiment in which we investigated individual trading preferences in a peer-to-peer community, including a variety of private and non-private trading actors. Our data from the United Kingdom (n=441) and Germany (n=440) shows that set buying and selling prices strongly vary, pointing to three systematically different trading strategies that individuals apply as a function of involved trading actor. Findings moreover reveal that trading decisions are determined by individuals’ political orientation, place attachment, and climate change beliefs as well as individual differences in trust in the involved trading actor. Finally, our results illustrate high consistency in trading preferences across nations. However, nation-level differences emerged when decisions were made publicly visible, emphasising the need to consider context-effects in peer-to-peer system design. Our results have implications for the development of prosumer-centred energy models and the design of interventions to increase citizen participation across national contexts.

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Section: Determinants Of Trading Decisions In Prosumer-centred Modelsmentioning

confidence: 53%

Pricing decisions in peer-to-peer and prosumer-centred electricity markets: Experimental analysis in Germany and the United Kingdom

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Fell²

2021

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“…Fourteen articles and a total of 25 experiments were included in the review. Most of these experiments were aimed at increasing the importance of self-transcendence values; this is probably because these values are perceived as socially desirable [ 104 ], intrinsically part of the prosocial domain [ 11 , 32 , 61 ], and strictly related to individual and collective wellbeing [ 105 ].…”

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“…For example, Sagiv et al [ 60 ], by making self-transcendence (vs. self-enhancement) values more accessible, increased the likelihood for a sample of college students to cooperate (or compete) in a virtual game. More recently, Conte et al [ 61 ] highlighted that the relationship between benevolence, universalism, and their coherent behaviour becomes strengthened by increasing the accessibility of these values.…”

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Changing Personal Values through Value-Manipulation Tasks: A Systematic Literature Review Based on Schwartz’s Theory of Basic Human Values

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Danioni

Zagrean

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According to the Theory of Basic Human Values, values are relatively stable, but not immutable, abstract goals which strongly influence peoples’ lives. Since their relative stability, psychosocial research is attempting to understand the extent to which it is possible to induce a voluntary change in people’s personal values. The main aim of this study was to systematically review the existing literature on experiments to induce a value change, also highlighting the theoretical perspectives used to develop the experimental tasks. We conducted a literature search of five databases (SCOPUS, ProQuest, PsycINFO, PubMed, and Web of Science). After the screening and the eligibility phase, we included a total of 14 articles (25 experiments). Most of these studies involved university students and adopted a pre-and post-test design, using different manipulation tasks. The results highlighted the possibility of inducing a voluntary value change, assessed in terms of mean levels and/or rank order. These findings provide new insights regarding the stability of values in the light of the Theory of Basic Human Values. The practical implications and future research directions are discussed.

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“…In an agricultural study, Chua et al (2016) demonstrate that altruistic value is a significantly positive antecedent of individuals' feelings of moral obligation to engage in pro-environmental behaviors. As altruistic value implies that people are motivated to act prosocially to benefit others ( Conte et al, 2021 ; De Groot and Steg, 2008 ), those with high altruistic value are more likely to engage in prosocial actions, such as complying with SD measures to protect others. Accordingly, we propose that altruistic value is a direct antecedent of the NAM variables of ascription of responsibility and moral obligation, and of behavioral intentions to comply with SD measures.…”

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COVID-19 social distancing compliance mechanisms: UK evidence

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McCalmley

2022

Environmental Research

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Non-compliance with social distancing (SD) measures clearly has negative effects on both public health and post-pandemic economic recovery. However, little is as yet known about people's views on and factors influencing their behavioral intentions toward SD measures. This study draws on moral disengagement theory and the norm-activation model to investigate mechanisms that promote or hinder compliance with SD measures. A longitudinal research approach was adopted to compare changes in the main factors over three periods of the COVID-19 pandemic in England (UK). The results reveal significant differences between the three periods regarding intentions to comply with SD measures, altruistic value, moral obligation and moral disengagement, with no significant change in ascription of responsibility. Residents showed had the strongest intentions to comply with SD measures during the first national lockdown, with the highest moral obligation and lowest moral disengagement levels, compared with the lowest intention to comply during the first re-opening period. Altruistic value is important in promoting moral obligation and compliance with SD measures, whereas the predictive powers of ascription of responsibility and moral disengagement were weaker than expected. These findings offer guidance to policymakers and researchers in developing more effective policies and public communication strategies. The results suggest that communication is key to normalizing SD compliance, which can be achieved most effectively by fostering residents' altruistic value and moral considerations. Particular attention must be paid to re-opening periods between lockdowns, with clear messages to remind residents of prosocial aspects of SD compliance and public health. In addition to appropriate communication and education, technologies such as apps, QR codes and contactless shopping settings may also be used to facilitate compliance with SD measures.

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The dynamics of humanistic and biospheric altruism in conflicting choice environments

Cited by 13 publications

References 28 publications

Pricing decisions in peer-to-peer and prosumer-centred electricity markets: Experimental analysis in Germany and the United Kingdom

Pricing decisions in peer-to-peer and prosumer-centred electricity markets: Experimental analysis in Germany and the United Kingdom

Changing Personal Values through Value-Manipulation Tasks: A Systematic Literature Review Based on Schwartz’s Theory of Basic Human Values

COVID-19 social distancing compliance mechanisms: UK evidence

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