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{"title":"Testing the effects of health-benefit, environmental-benefit and co-benefit priming for promoting sustainable food choice and their psychological mechanisms: A randomized controlled trial combined with eye tracking","authors":"Meijun Chen ,&nbsp;Yuyi Chen ,&nbsp;Ruoxi Qi ,&nbsp;Janet Hui-wen Hsiao ,&nbsp;Wendy Wing Tak Lam ,&nbsp;Qiuyan Liao","doi":"10.1016/j.jenvp.2024.102485","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jenvp.2024.102485","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Promoting sustainable diets is consistently documented to be beneficial to health, the environment, and long-term food security. There remains limited understanding of the effects of activating the goal of sustainable diets for achieving co-benefits on sustainable food choices and the potential mechanisms. This study was a pre-registered online randomized controlled trial combined with eye tracking to compare the effects of three priming interventions: health-benefit priming (HP), environment-benefit priming (EP), and combined-benefit priming (CoP), on sustainable food choice. Sustainable food choices were assessed by a simulated online shopping task. Participants' eye movement data were tracked while they were choosing foods during simulated online shopping. Participants' executive function (EF), environmental values, health values, and social orientation values were also measured. The results showed a significant difference in sustainable food choices among the four groups, with CoP showing a significant increase compared to the control. The eye-tracking data revealed that the attention to sustainable foods with an eco-friendly logo mediated the association between priming and participants’ sustainable food choices. Furthermore, priming with the co-benefits of sustainable diets can be more effective for participants with greater delay discounting to increase their sustainable food choices. These findings suggest that priming with co-benefits of sustainable diets can be a promising strategy to support more sustainable food choices particularly for consumers with more difficulty in delaying their immediate awards.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48439,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Psychology","volume":"100 ","pages":"Article 102485"},"PeriodicalIF":6.1,"publicationDate":"2024-11-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142655345","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":"Communicating consensus among climate scientists increases estimates of consensus and belief in human-caused climate change across the globe","authors":"Aart van Stekelenburg ,&nbsp;Daniëlle N.M. Bleize ,&nbsp;Jonathan van ’t Riet ,&nbsp;Gabi Schaap ,&nbsp;Madalina Vlasceanu ,&nbsp;Kimberly C. Doell","doi":"10.1016/j.jenvp.2024.102480","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jenvp.2024.102480","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>A substantial number of people across the globe deny and minimize the role of human action in climate change, which can inhibit mitigation efforts. Climate communication research shows that scientific-consensus communication is a promising intervention to tackle climate denial, yet most research investigating this strategy was conducted in the Global North. In the current preregistered research, data from a large, global collaboration (63 countries, <em>N</em> = 10,390) demonstrate that exposure to one simple climate consensus message has a meaningful effect on the estimate of consensus among climate scientists (<em>d</em> = ∼0.40). Both in the Global North and in the Global South the consensus message increased consensus estimates, but this effect was larger in the North than in the South. The effect of the consensus message on belief in human-caused climate change was statistically significant but small (<em>d</em> = ∼0.07) and similar between global regions. This demonstrates that short and scalable consensus messages can be part of communicators’ toolkit to address climate denial across the globe, but also that repeated and/or additional communication may be required to boost its effects.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48439,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Psychology","volume":"100 ","pages":"Article 102480"},"PeriodicalIF":6.1,"publicationDate":"2024-11-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142655344","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Climate change mitigation: A question of humanitarian or environmental motivation?","authors":"Nicolas E. Neef ,&nbsp;Sarah Zabel ,&nbsp;Siegmar Otto","doi":"10.1016/j.jenvp.2024.102483","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jenvp.2024.102483","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Addressing climate change at the individual level and the associated conflict between self-interest and the common good is viewed primarily as a motivational challenge in the environmental domain. However, due to this conflict, climate change mitigation has also been framed as a classical social dilemma that requires direct, overt cooperation with other people. Thus, there seems to be a lack of clarity in the extents to which climate change mitigation depends on humanitarian-prosocial motivation or environmental motivation. This study investigates the extents to which individual climate change mitigation is driven by humanitarian and environmental motivation – two motivations that are rooted in an inherent human prosocial propensity that stems from a combination of our genetic makeup and our established culture of prosocial behavior. We conducted a laboratory experiment using an adapted Public Goods Game in an environmental context with <em>N</em> = 201 participants. We found that both humanitarian and environmental motivation positively predicted pro-environmental choices in the Public Goods Game, with humanitarian motivation as the stronger predictor. On a theoretical level, these results suggest that environmentally positive behaviors that demand significant cooperation could be more accurately understood as both humanitarian-prosocial behaviors and pro-environmental actions. On a practical level, interventions should be tailored to the required level of cooperation, for instance, through framing or by promoting a sense of connectedness with either fellow humans or nature.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48439,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Psychology","volume":"100 ","pages":"Article 102483"},"PeriodicalIF":6.1,"publicationDate":"2024-11-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142655343","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Humanization promotes equality over efficiency preference in carbon allocation","authors":"Lingling Huang ,&nbsp;Li Liu ,&nbsp;Jianning Dang ,&nbsp;Cong Wei ,&nbsp;Xiaoyan Miao ,&nbsp;Zhen Liu","doi":"10.1016/j.jenvp.2024.102481","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jenvp.2024.102481","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Decisions regarding international carbon allocation present an efficiency–equality dilemma. In addition to serving national interests, recent studies have shown the moral value foundations of carbon allocation preferences. Nevertheless, concentrating only on the moral values of the allocator is insufficient; the allocator's moral concern for the allocatees often plays an equally or even more crucial role. Inspired by the moral concern model of humanization, we propose that the humanization of allocatees boosts empathy toward them, thereby promoting equality (versus efficiency) preference in carbon allocation. The results of three studies (<em>N</em> = 911) reveal that humanization increases selection of more equal (versus efficient) allocation proposals (Studies 1–3) and decreases credit allocation differences between allocatees (Studies 2 and 3). Further, enhanced empathy is found to mediate these effects (Studies 2 and 3). By identifying the roles of humanization and empathy in carbon allocation preferences, this research provides a moral concern framework for understanding international carbon allocation controversies and has important implications for promoting climate governance cooperation.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48439,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Psychology","volume":"100 ","pages":"Article 102481"},"PeriodicalIF":6.1,"publicationDate":"2024-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142655341","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":"Indoor environmental conditions and likelihood of reported violence and aggression in a purpose-built residential dementia hospital","authors":"Neveen Hamza ,&nbsp;Keith Reid ,&nbsp;David Anderson ,&nbsp;Leigh Townsend","doi":"10.1016/j.jenvp.2024.102477","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jenvp.2024.102477","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study, conducted on purpose-built NHS dementia wards, investigates correlations between patient aggression and indoor temperature and humidity. Temperature and humidity, measured at 3-min intervals, on male and female wards, over 12–15 months, were compared against staff-recorded incidents (n = 299; females n = 100; males n = 199). Linear regression was used to assess potential correlations. Binomial analysis measured relative risk of incidents outside comfortable thermal (22–24 °C) and humidity (30%–60%) ranges. Temperatures ranged from 17 to 27^oC and humidity ranged from 16 to 70%. On the male ward, both extremes of temperature were correlated with increased incident likelihood (R² = 0.473) and relative risk of incidents was 1.89 (p = 0.0015) at temperatures &lt;22^oC and 1.73 (p &lt; 0.001) at temperatures &gt;24^oC. On the female ward, increasing temperature was correlated with increased incident likelihood (R² = 0.568) and relative risk of incidents was 1.99 (p &lt; 0.001) at temperatures &gt;24^oC. Strong associations between relative humidity levels and incidents were not identified. Extreme temperatures were associated with significantly increased risk of incidents of agitation, suggesting relevance of environmental conditions in the formulation of agitation in dementia.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48439,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Psychology","volume":"100 ","pages":"Article 102477"},"PeriodicalIF":6.1,"publicationDate":"2024-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142655474","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Sex and the city park: The role of gender and sex in psychological restoration in urban greenspaces","authors":"Anna Bornioli ,&nbsp;Aife Hopkins-Doyle ,&nbsp;Fabio Fasoli ,&nbsp;Giulio Faccenda ,&nbsp;Mikel Subiza-Pérez ,&nbsp;Eleanor Ratcliffe ,&nbsp;Eda Beyazit","doi":"10.1016/j.jenvp.2024.102476","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jenvp.2024.102476","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Exposure to urban greenspaces such as parks, forests, and gardens can support psychological restoration. However, restorative environments research currently lacks theory and empirical evidence on <em>gendered</em> restorative processes. Literature on epidemiology has studied gender differences in greenspaces and mental health outcomes but results are unclear so far. In parallel, social psychology of gender and feminist urbanism suggest that gender-related socio-cultural norms, attitudes, and behaviours; roles and relations; stereotypes, expressions; identity and sexual orientation, as well as certain sex-related factors, can have profound influences on women's (and gender minorities') experiences in public space. Drawing from these disciplines, we address this key knowledge gap of restorative environments research by reviewing the role of gender and sex in psychological restoration and wider psychological experiences in urban greenspaces. The findings reveal that gender-related and certain sex-related factors can affect aspects of person-greenspaces interactions, including when greenspaces are accessed and where; why they are visited and with whom; and how greenspaces are experienced. Several potential barriers to women's and gender minorities' experiences in urban greenspaces are identified. These relate to visit characteristics (transport accessibility and mobility patterns, frequency, time, social context and purpose of visits), experiences of contextual features (perceived and objective safety, the quality and maintenance of urban greenspace, infrastructure features), and several top-down person and group-based experiences (personal meanings, majority dynamics and group belonging, intersecting sociodemographic and personal characteristics). Overall, the person-environment fit in urban greenspaces might be lower for women and gender minorities than for men. This might translate into lower perceptions of compatibility and being away and, simultaneously, higher attentional demands. Overall, this might reduce the restorative and psychological benefits of urban greenspaces for women and gender minorities. Future research is encouraged to assess empirically the effects of the identified gender- and sex-related factors in restorative experiences of urban greenspaces, as well as to explore restorative experiences among specific socio-demographic groups in which gender intersects with other personal and social features.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48439,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Psychology","volume":"100 ","pages":"Article 102476"},"PeriodicalIF":6.1,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142655476","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"When do individuals take action to protect the environment?——Exploring the mediating effects of negative impacts of environmental risk","authors":"Dandan Zhang ,&nbsp;Yao Yu ,&nbsp;Wei Guo","doi":"10.1016/j.jenvp.2024.102472","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jenvp.2024.102472","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Environmental risks can result in varying degrees of negative impacts, which can be categorized into micro-level individual impacts and macro-level social and ecological impacts. While extensive research has shown that individuals take actions to protect the environment in the face of environmental risks, the mechanisms underlying this behavior have received insufficient attention, particularly regarding the negative impacts stemming directly from environmental conditions. This study aims to examine the discrepancies in pro-environmental awareness and behavior in response to adverse consequences of diverse environmental risks from a risk management perspective. Utilizing data from the 2021 Chinese General Social Survey (CGSS), we classified the negative impacts of environmental risks into two categories: individual and community levels. We investigated which specific negative impacts motivate individuals to develop environmental awareness and engage in pro-environmental behaviors. Our findings reveal that individuals are more likely to take action when faced with immediate and urgent individual-level negative impacts. Conversely, they are less inclined to act in response to long-term and seemingly minor community-level environmental risks. These insights enhance our understanding of the psychological mechanisms linking environmental risks to pro-environmental behaviors and underscore the importance of addressing negative impacts that may not appear serious in the present.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48439,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Psychology","volume":"100 ","pages":"Article 102472"},"PeriodicalIF":6.1,"publicationDate":"2024-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142561165","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":"Adverse relations between substandard housing and self-regulation are accentuated for children with difficult temperament","authors":"Gary W. Evans ,&nbsp;Jenny Kim","doi":"10.1016/j.jenvp.2024.102473","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jenvp.2024.102473","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48439,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Psychology","volume":"100 ","pages":"Article 102473"},"PeriodicalIF":6.1,"publicationDate":"2024-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142555541","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":"Chaotic or crowded? The role of physical household environment in children's learning during the COVID-19 pandemic","authors":"Xiaozi Gao ,&nbsp;Frank Tian-Fang Ye ,&nbsp;Kerry Lee ,&nbsp;Alfredo Bautista ,&nbsp;Kuen-Fung Sin ,&nbsp;Lan Yang","doi":"10.1016/j.jenvp.2024.102474","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jenvp.2024.102474","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Household chaos and crowding are known to significantly influence children's development; however, their relative contributions remain less clear. Furthermore, previous research has primarily focused on children's socioemotional and cognitive development, with limited attention to the learning process. This study explores the relation of household chaos and crowding with children's learning behaviors and emotions during the COVID-19 pandemic in Hong Kong. A sample of 262 parents and their primary school-aged children were recruited in Hong Kong. Both parents and children completed separate online questionnaires. Structural equation modeling revealed that while household chaos was correlated with crowding, it was specifically chaos, rather than crowding, that negatively related to children's learning behaviors. Importantly, the direct relationship between household chaos and children's learning behaviors remained significant even after accounting for family socioeconomic status (SES) and parents' involvement. This study enhances our understanding of the relation of physical environment with children's learning, emphasizing the distinct role of household chaos, separate from crowding and family SES.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48439,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Psychology","volume":"100 ","pages":"Article 102474"},"PeriodicalIF":6.1,"publicationDate":"2024-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142571869","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Caring about one's legacy relates to constructive coping with climate change","authors":"Andrea Y.J. Mah ,&nbsp;Stylianos Syropoulos ,&nbsp;Ezra M. Markowitz","doi":"10.1016/j.jenvp.2024.102471","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jenvp.2024.102471","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Climate change is an existential threat facing humankind, and one that we must productively cope with as its most severe consequences come to pass. In the present investigation we theorize that one way that people may cope with an existential threat is through personal legacy-building efforts. In three correlational studies (<em>N</em> = 855) including samples from the U.S. and a diverse global cohort including the Global South and East, we found that people construe their proenvironmental behaviors as legacy-building activities, and that doing so relates to the perceived effectiveness of a behavior, as well as the reported frequency of engaging in a behavior. Further, we found that people who were motivated to leave a legacy grounded in the desire to have a positive impact on others also tended to be more concerned about climate change, but not paralyzed by such concern, indicated by a negative or non-significant correlation with climate change anxiety, a positive correlation with constructive hope and active coping, and negative correlations with hope based in denial and avoidant coping.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48439,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Psychology","volume":"100 ","pages":"Article 102471"},"PeriodicalIF":6.1,"publicationDate":"2024-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142561166","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}