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{"title":"Spillover from general and specific pro-environmental behavior to climate-friendly choices and policy Acceptance: The mediating role of psychological engagement","authors":"John Thøgersen ,&nbsp;Ting Zhang","doi":"10.1016/j.jenvp.2025.102718","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jenvp.2025.102718","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Research on pro-environmental transformations of the consumption pattern has investigated the dynamics of “behavioral spillover” in the form of either a specific pro-environmental behavior triggering another or as the gradual emergence of an increasingly pro-environmental pattern of behavior reflecting increasing environmental commitment. In this article, we draw on consumer engagement research to combine and compare these two approaches, also contributing to the scant research on consumer engagement in climate change and related issues. Specifically, we study impacts of consumers’ use of public transport, cycling, and general pro-environmental behavior on their willingness to adopt new, more climate-friendly transport and travel options and accept new climate-friendly transport policy, including possible mediation through psychological environmental engagement and pro-environmental self-identity. Residents of Denmark (N_wave1 = 537, N_wave2 = 413) and China (N = 1020) were surveyed, and structural equation modelling was used to analyze the data. The study reveals that general pro-environmental behavior increases the willingness to adopt new climate-friendly transport and travel options and acceptance of climate policy regulating transport, partly mediated through psychological environmental engagement, in both Denmark and China. There are only small and scattered impacts of the use of public transport and cycling on psychological environmental engagement or the willingness to adopt or accept. These findings suggest that companies and policymakers should focus more on promoting and facilitating general pro-environmental behavior than on identifying specific behaviors that can be used as “wedges” to promote the adoption and acceptance of new and emerging climate-friendly products, services, and policy.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48439,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Psychology","volume":"106 ","pages":"Article 102718"},"PeriodicalIF":7.0,"publicationDate":"2025-08-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144767107","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Faith, growth, and ethics: cross-cultural analysis of religiosity and environment protection vis-a-vis economic priorities among Muslims","authors":"Muhammad Bilal Zafar ,&nbsp;Mohd Fauzi Abu-Hussin","doi":"10.1016/j.jenvp.2025.102716","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jenvp.2025.102716","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study examines the relationship between religiosity and pro-environmental behavior among Muslims across different national contexts, with a particular focus on the trade-off between environmental protection and economic growth. Using data from the 7th Wave of the World Values Survey (2017–2022), the analysis includes 20,716 Muslim respondents from 46 countries and applies multilevel logistic regression to account for both individual- and country-level variation. The findings show that religiosity is a strong positive predictor of pro-environment behavior in Muslim-majority countries, where environmental ethics are often reinforced through public religious norms. In non-Muslim-majority countries, religiosity shows no meaningful or negative association with environmental concern, likely reflecting its more private or constrained expression. Subgroup models confirm this contextual moderation. Education and income both exhibit positive associations with pro-environment behavior, while age follows a curvilinear trend. Urban residency is associated with lower environmental concern in Muslim-majority settings but not in others. The results highlight the relevance of cultural-religious context in shaping value-based environmental action and point to the role of education and religious discourse in advancing sustainability.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48439,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Psychology","volume":"106 ","pages":"Article 102716"},"PeriodicalIF":7.0,"publicationDate":"2025-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144757779","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Climate Privilege: Defensive disbelief in climate change science","authors":"Geoffrey D. Munro,&nbsp;Jasmine F. Edun,&nbsp;Nick Mehiel","doi":"10.1016/j.jenvp.2025.102714","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jenvp.2025.102714","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Two studies investigated climate privilege--an idea derived from existing research on racial and economic privilege. U.S. citizens consume a larger than average amount of fossil fuels that contribute to climate change. Furthermore, poorer countries feel more of an impact from the negative consequences that result from climate change than rich countries like the U.S. In the current research, we presented information to three groups of U.S. college students (Study 1) and on-line workers (Study 2). The Climate Change group received basic information about the negative consequences of climate change (with no focus on the U.S.). The Climate Privilege group received information focusing on U.S. citizens' disproportionate contribution to climate change. The control group received no information about climate change. Participants then completed questionnaires assessing their opinions about climate change. Republicans and Independents (but not Democrats) in Study 1 reported less climate-friendly opinions in the Climate Privilege group compared to the Climate Change group, and conservatives (but not liberals) in Study 2 reported less climate-friendly opinions in the Climate Privilege group compared to the control group. This study links prior research on socioeconomic privilege to the climate crisis and helps explain why widespread reduction of fossil fuel usage is difficult.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48439,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Psychology","volume":"106 ","pages":"Article 102714"},"PeriodicalIF":7.0,"publicationDate":"2025-07-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144757895","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Consumers misestimate the greenhouse gas emissions associated with sustainable behaviors, firms, and industries","authors":"Jonas Ludwig ,&nbsp;Arian Trieb ,&nbsp;Eli R. Sugerman ,&nbsp;Eric J. Johnson","doi":"10.1016/j.jenvp.2025.102713","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jenvp.2025.102713","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Consumers are increasingly aware of the ecological impact of their consumption. Many intend to reduce their personal carbon footprint by adopting more environmentally friendly behaviors, like reducing meat consumption, avoiding short-distance flights, or switching to green energy providers. But do consumers know which behaviors contribute most to reducing emissions? Do they know which businesses and industries emit more greenhouse gases than others? We examine the accuracy of German consumers’ carbon emissions judgments, replicating and extending work suggesting widespread lack of carbon competence in the Unites States. Across six studies (<em>N</em> = 2028), we demonstrate that German consumers often make inaccurate judgments about the emissions associated with sustainable behaviors, firms, and industries. We investigate judgmental biases that can distort the emissions judgments. Corroborating earlier observations, our results suggest that emissions judgments can be biased by cognitive processes of attribute substitution. Decision makers can answer the complex question of carbon emissions by substituting easier attributes instead, like how many people within their social circle adopt a sustainable behavior, or how much they like a firm. We discuss how better understanding biases in carbon emissions judgments can contribute to improving consumer carbon competence.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48439,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Psychology","volume":"106 ","pages":"Article 102713"},"PeriodicalIF":7.0,"publicationDate":"2025-07-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144757780","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Strategy selection in a conflicting context during indoor wayfinding: Insights from direction and floor strategies","authors":"Takanori Nanahara,&nbsp;Sihwan Lee","doi":"10.1016/j.jenvp.2025.102711","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jenvp.2025.102711","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Various strategies employed in indoor wayfinding have been identified, together with specific internal and external requirements for their activation. Respective strategy use and its relationship with both configurational characteristics of architectural elements and individuals' knowledge or understanding of the wayfinding context have been investigated. However, little is known about how individuals ultimately select one strategy from among multiple strategies when they are simultaneously available but lead in opposing directions. This study investigated strategy selection in such conflicting situations, focusing on two fundamental strategies: direction strategy and floor strategy. A controlled virtual environment experiment with 120 participants was conducted. Participants had to choose a direction at a T-intersection where each corridor aligned with one or both strategies. Participants were separated into three groups according to the distances from the intersection to a staircase, i.e., a spatial cue for floor strategy. The results revealed that participants who employed floor strategy engaged in more looking-around behaviors than the direction strategy users. This implies that the floor strategy users might have perceived the wayfinding context as less certain and processed the gathered information in a relatively rational way. This theoretical interpretation provides new insights into the psychological processes involved in strategy selection during indoor wayfinding and highlights the potential links between strategy selection and individual information processing style.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48439,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Psychology","volume":"106 ","pages":"Article 102711"},"PeriodicalIF":7.0,"publicationDate":"2025-07-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144757782","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Disrupted self-perspective impact on episodic memory in individuals with self-disorders: A virtual investigation in the Latin Quarter of Paris","authors":"Delphine Yeh ,&nbsp;Célia Jantac ,&nbsp;Sylvain Penaud ,&nbsp;Maxine Dos Santos ,&nbsp;Gilles Martinez ,&nbsp;Julie Bourgin-Duchesnay ,&nbsp;Valeria Lucarini ,&nbsp;Eric Orriols ,&nbsp;Alain Berthoz ,&nbsp;Marie-Odile Krebs ,&nbsp;Pascale Piolino","doi":"10.1016/j.jenvp.2025.102712","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jenvp.2025.102712","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Virtual reality (VR) provides a powerful framework for investigating how environmental factors interact with self-referential processes during episodic memory (EM) formation. This study examined whether adopting a self-perspective or another person's perspective while navigating a realistic simulation of the Latin Quarter of Paris differentially influenced EM in individuals at ultra-high risk (UHR) for psychosis (n = 22), patients with schizophrenia (SCZ; n = 20), and healthy controls (CTL; n = 28). Participants encoded specific events from either their own first-person perspective or an avatar's third-person perspective. After the navigation, they completed a free recall task assessing factual content, spatiotemporal context, and phenomenological details. Results showed that CTL exhibited a self-reference effect, recalling more details and demonstrating enhanced memory binding when encoding events from a self-perspective, compared to an other-perspective. In contrast, UHR and SCZ groups displayed pervasive EM deficits regardless of perspective and lacked this self-referential advantage. Deficits in self-perspective encoding correlated with neurological soft signs, while EM performance was associated with episodic mental time travel, executive functions, sense of presence and environmental familiarity, suggesting integrative processes between the environment, Self, and memory encoding. These findings support the theory of a disruption of minimal selfhood or ipseity in the SCZ spectrum, suggesting that core alterations in first-person anchoring compromise the encoding of experiences into coherent, spatially contextualised episodic memories. Furthermore, the results highlight the importance of naturalistic settings for uncovering how self-referential and environmental factors jointly shape memory in psychosis. VR-based approaches may facilitate early identification of at-risk individuals and inform targeted interventions to promote engagement with the environment, enhancing EM and self-related processes in clinical populations.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48439,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Psychology","volume":"106 ","pages":"Article 102712"},"PeriodicalIF":7.0,"publicationDate":"2025-07-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144739074","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Face your feelings, save the planet: How we regulate emotions affects pro-environmental behavior","authors":"Moazzam Abbas,&nbsp;Huma Iftikhar","doi":"10.1016/j.jenvp.2025.102687","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jenvp.2025.102687","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This research determines the impact of emotional regulation strategies (cognitive reappraisal and emotion suppression) on three pro-environmental behaviors: veggie eating, energy-saving behavior<strong>,</strong> and electric bike buying intention. Ordered logistic regression and partial least squares path modeling were applied to evaluate the ECHOES International Survey data, with a sample of 18,037 respondents. The outcomes proposed that cognitive reappraisal positively affects all pro-environmental behaviors, suggesting that individuals who engage in cognitive reappraisal are more likely to adopt sustainable practices. Conversely, emotion suppression has a negative influence on veggie eating, energy saving, and electric bike buying intention. Demographic factors such as gender, age, education, and income also contribute to environmental behavior. The policy implications emphasize the design of effective policies to leverage cognitive reappraisal and to mitigate the negative effects of emotion suppression to foster sustainable behaviors.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48439,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Psychology","volume":"106 ","pages":"Article 102687"},"PeriodicalIF":7.0,"publicationDate":"2025-07-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144739110","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The effect of empathy with nature and humans on conservation behaviour","authors":"Christopher M. Raymond ,&nbsp;Max Eriksson ,&nbsp;Silviya Korpilo ,&nbsp;Jonathan Carruthers-Jones","doi":"10.1016/j.jenvp.2025.102710","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jenvp.2025.102710","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Fostering positive relationships between humans and nature is critical to conservation efforts globally, yet little research has considered the effects of empathy with nature and empathy with humans on conservation behaviour. This study examined the relationships between empathy with nature and humans on conservation behaviour. In 2024, 329 residents of Turku, Finland, over the age of 15 completed a survey containing validated measures of empathy with nature, cognitive and affective empathy and conservation behaviour in the public and private spheres. We found that empathy with nature was consistently a strong predictor of conservation behaviour and behavioural intention in the public sphere. Cognitive empathy was a positive predictor of conservation behaviour intention in the private sphere, while affective empathy had a weak negative effect on conservation behaviour in the public sphere. These different predictive capacities highlight the importance of moving from general measures of empathy with humans to measures including cognitive and affective components in conservation behaviour research and practice.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48439,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Psychology","volume":"106 ","pages":"Article 102710"},"PeriodicalIF":7.0,"publicationDate":"2025-07-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144757894","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Comparing aesthetic preferences and agreement ratings in depictions of natural and urban environments","authors":"Anna Mascherek ,&nbsp;Lawrence Murphy ,&nbsp;Martin Lisanik ,&nbsp;Simone Kühn","doi":"10.1016/j.jenvp.2025.102709","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jenvp.2025.102709","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Studies have shown that individuals usually prefer natural over built environments, assuming a biological preparedness for nature. Consensus in preference ratings has been reported, though with inconsistencies, with the largest effects in the comparison of faces and abstract art. The present study aimed to assess agreement in a set of environmental images displaying natural as well as built environments. We hypothesized that individuals would show greater agreement for the natural environment than for the built environment.</div><div>Ninety-eight participants (69.4 % of whom were female) rated 200 images from four environmental categories (50 each): very scenic natural, mid-scenic natural, mid-scenic built, and un-scenic built, with respect to valence and arousal using self-assessment-manikin rating-scales. Agreement ratings were assessed applying the mean-minus-1 method. Analyses were conducted with linear mixed-effects models. The results exhibit a linear increase from relaxing to stressful and most preferred to least preferred for very scenic natural images over mid-scenic natural and mid-scenic built to very un-scenic built environment. Significant differences in the agreement ratings between the groups emerged for valence, but only for the mid-scenic built category in comparison to the other categories. For arousal, agreement was significantly different only in the very scenic natural images with lowest consensus ratings. No intuitive agreement on natural environments emerged, contradicting existing findings.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48439,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Psychology","volume":"106 ","pages":"Article 102709"},"PeriodicalIF":7.0,"publicationDate":"2025-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144722282","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Fascination moderates the effects of nature video exposure on creative thinking","authors":"Mika Koivisto ,&nbsp;Iida Lahnalahti ,&nbsp;Ida Malmberg ,&nbsp;Simone Grassini","doi":"10.1016/j.jenvp.2025.102699","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jenvp.2025.102699","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Exposure to nature has been thought to facilitate creativity, but there exists only limited causal evidence to support such relationship. The present online experiment (n = 297) examined whether exposure to nature videos, as opposed to urban videos, enhances creative divergent thinking in verbal or visual modalities and whether the restorative components assumed by Attention Restoration Theory (being away, fascination, scope, coherence) or by Stress Reduction Theory (positive emotions, relaxation) mediate or moderate the effects of the exposure on verbal or visual divergent thinking. The responses' creative quality, originality, flexibility, and fluency were measured. Nature video enhanced the creativity and originality of verbal divergent thinking and the creativity of visual divergent thinking. No mediation effects were detected. However, of the restorative components, fascination was most clearly found to moderate the effects of video exposure on the originality of verbal and visual divergent thinking, suggesting that participants who were fascinated or inspired by nature benefited the most from nature exposure. The results support the positive impact of nature exposure on creative divergent thinking. Additionally, individual differences in the subjective experiences of nature appear to play a significant role in the beneficial effects of nature on creative thinking. The results encourage incorporating natural elements into built environments, such as workplaces and schools, where creativity is important.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48439,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Psychology","volume":"106 ","pages":"Article 102699"},"PeriodicalIF":7.0,"publicationDate":"2025-07-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144757781","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}