Twenty years after Hines, Hungerford, and Tomera: A new meta-analysis of psycho-social determinants of pro-environmental behaviour

Bamberg, Sebastian; Möser, Guido

doi:10.1016/j.jenvp.2006.12.002

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“…Correlations between pro-environmental behaviors and attitudes are typically only moderate (Bamberg & Möser, 2007), which is in line with the well-known social psychological findings of inconsistent relationships between attitudes and related behaviors (e.g., Ajzen & Fishbein, 1977;Armitage & Christian, 2003). Notably, most of the studies described above reported endocrine influences on the extent of undesirable behavior such as violence, aggression, or dominance.…”

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“…Pro-environmental actions are prosocial by nature insofar as they typically do no entail direct benefits for the acting individual but rather serve long-term collective interests. In the environmental psychology literature, several models have therefore integrated proenvironmental behavior into the general framework of prosocial behavior (Bamberg & Möser, 2007;Kaiser & Byrka, 2011;Kollmuss & Agyeman, 2002;Stern, 2000).…”

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Salivary testosterone and cortisol are jointly related to pro-environmental behavior in men

Sollberger

Bernauer

Ehlert

2015

Social Neuroscience

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Recently, cortisol has been suggested to moderate the positive relationship between testosterone and antisocial behavior. More precisely, high testosterone levels have been found to be related to aggressive or dominant behavior especially when cortisol levels were low. In the present study, we aimed to extend these findings to pro-environmental behavior as an indicator of prosocial behavior. In a first step, 147 male participants provided information on their everyday pro-environmental behavior by completing an online questionnaire on various energy-saving behaviors. In a second step, subjects provided two saliva samples for the assessment of testosterone and cortisol on two subsequent mornings after awakening. We found that testosterone was negatively related to pro-environmental behavior, but only in men with low cortisol. In conclusion, our findings provide first evidence for the joint association of testosterone and cortisol with everyday pro-environmental behavior. These results further reinforce the importance of considering interdependent hormone systems simultaneously rather than focusing on a single hormone.

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Salivary testosterone and cortisol are jointly related to pro-environmental behavior in men

Sollberger

Bernauer

Ehlert

2015

Social Neuroscience

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“…Some definitions of utility are expansive enough to include internalized altruistic concerns. In fact, a recent meta-analysis found that variables from both types of theories had unique explanatory value across a set of ESBs (Bamberg & Möser, 2007).…”

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Contributions of psychology to limiting climate change.

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2011

American Psychologist

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Council, 2010a). The human activities that directly produce physical changes in Earth's heat balance, such as burning fossil fuels, clearing forests, and raising cattle, are driven in turn by other human activities, including government policies, the growth and migration of human populations, economic and technological development, and the behavior of individuals and households as consumers, members of organizations, and citizens. These actions are influenced in turn by human attitudes, predispositions, beliefs, and social and economic structures (National Research Council, 1992; Swim et al., 2011, this issue). This article discusses what psychology has contributed and can contribute to limiting the magnitude of climate change by altering the human activities that affect it. A Framework for Psychological ContributionsPsychology can contribute to limiting climate change by improving understanding of climate-relevant individual, household, and organizational behaviors that affect climate change and the many personal, social, economic, institutional, policy, and social-structural factors that affect these behaviors, as well as by helping devise ways to turn that understanding into effective interventions. Most of the efforts of psychologists, and most of this review, focus on consumer behaviors. These can be conveniently divided into choices that affect emissions of greenhouse gases directly through household purchases of energy and choices that affect emissions indirectly through the purchase of goods and services that affect the climate through their production, distribution, and disposal. This article focuses mainly on the direct effects because they are large (about 40% of carbon dioxide emissions in the United States; Bin & Dowlatabadi, 2005) and because more is known about the behavioral factors that drive those emissions. It also briefly discusses psychological factors in organizational behavior and in acceptance of policies and technologies.

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“…High environmental concern in political polls (e.g., European Commission 2014; Leiserowitz et al 2014) is often met with negligible pro-environmental actions (e.g., Dunlap and Scarce 1991). In a meta-analysis, Bamberg and Möser (2007) found a correlation of r=.35 between environmental attitudes and behavior. Some of this disconnect may be due to a lack of Bmeasurement correspondence^between general attitudes and specific behaviors.…”

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Local is not always better: the impact of climate information on values, behavior and policy support

Schoenefeld

McCauley

2015

J Environ Stud Sci

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In the current research, we experimentally examined the effect of providing local or global information about the impacts of climate change on individuals' perceived importance of climate change and on their willingness to take action to address it, including policy support. We examined these relationships in the context of individuals' general value orientations. Our findings, from 99 US residents, suggest that different kinds of climate information (local, global, or none) interact with values vis-à-vis our dependent variables. Specifically, while self-transcendent values predict perceived importance and pro-environmental behavior across all three information conditions, the effect on policy support is less clear. Furthermore, we detected a Breactance effect^where individuals with self-enhancing values who read local information thought that climate change was less important and were less willing to engage in pro-environmental behavior and support policy than self-enhancing individuals in the other information conditions. These results suggest that policy makers and public communicators may want to be cognizant of their audience's general value orientation. Local information may not only be ineffective but may also prove counterproductive with individuals whose value orientations are more self-enhancing than self-transcendent.

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Twenty years after Hines, Hungerford, and Tomera: A new meta-analysis of psycho-social determinants of pro-environmental behaviour

Cited by 2,914 publications

References 61 publications

Salivary testosterone and cortisol are jointly related to pro-environmental behavior in men

Salivary testosterone and cortisol are jointly related to pro-environmental behavior in men

Contributions of psychology to limiting climate change.

Local is not always better: the impact of climate information on values, behavior and policy support

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