The role of heuristics for composing an environmentally friendly meal

Wassmann, Bianca; Siegrist, Michael; Hartmann, Christina

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2023.136818

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“…Heuristics have proven influential in different domains of pro-environmental decisionmaking, e.g., when deciding on which foods to choose based on their environmental impact [24], or regarding the acceptance of fully automated driving [25].…”

Section: Heuristics As the Cognitive Link Between Values And Pro-envi...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Simple and Smart: Investigating Two Heuristics That Guide the Intention to Engage in Different Climate-Change-Mitigation Behaviors

et al. 2023

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Individuals can support climate-change mitigation in many ways, e.g., through private-sphere behaviors or the support of political measures. We assume that the common climate-change-mitigation heuristic of restriction does not sufficiently support impactful mitigation intentions and therefore introduce and investigate a new heuristic (optimization heuristic.) In a cross-sectional survey with N = 1427 participants (representative of the German population with regard to age, gender, education), we developed two scales to measure the heuristics of restriction and optimization. As individual climate-change-mitigation intentions, we recorded four types of private-sphere behavior, activism, and three forms of policy support. Further psychological variables (personal norm, biospheric value orientation) and sociodemographic variables were recorded. The factorial structure of all concepts was assessed by means of confirmatory factor analyses. Hierarchical regression analyses with the climate-change-mitigation intentions as the criterion were carried out. Results support the assumption of two related, yet distinct, climate-change-mitigation heuristics that were highly correlated with biospheric value orientation. We additionally computed measure of the dominance of the restriction heuristic. This variable had no correlation with biospheric values, and correlated with the intentions in the expected ways, indicating that individuals with a dominant restriction heuristic tend to show lower scores of impactful climate-change-mitigation intentions.

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Section: Heuristics As the Cognitive Link Between Values And Pro-envi...mentioning

confidence: 99%