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{"title":"Understanding late adolescents’ moral responsibility for climate change: The role of social-ecological factors, worry, and distancing","authors":"Amanda Rikner Martinsson ,&nbsp;Terese Glatz ,&nbsp;Maria Ojala","doi":"10.1016/j.jenvp.2025.102879","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jenvp.2025.102879","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Addressing climate change requires people in the Global North to avoid high-impact behaviors like car use and air travel. Late adolescents, whose engagement in such behaviors may be restricted by age and parental decision-making, are in a crucial stage for developing a sense of moral responsibility for climate change. Understanding why some adolescents cultivate this responsibility is vital, as responsibility relates to both pro-environmental engagement and well-being. Therefore, this study aims to identify factors associated with late adolescents' sense of moral responsibility. Nature connectedness, parental descriptive norms, and macro climate-change worry have been positively linked to pro-environmental behavior in previous research, but their role in relation to moral responsibility regarding climate change remains less clear. Similarly, the relationship between distancing coping and moral responsibility is yet to be fully understood. In this study we explore ways that these factors are associated with late adolescents’ moral responsibility and examine whether these relationships differ between girls and boys. In 2023, we surveyed 619 Swedish high school students (ages 16–20). We used structural equation modeling to answer our research questions. Connectedness to nature, parental norms, worry, and distancing coping were positively associated with responsibility, with parental norms having a stronger effect for boys. Worry partially mediated how parental norms and nature connectedness related to responsibility, with a stronger mediation effect for girls in the latter relationship. Distancing coping did not moderate the relationship between worry and responsibility. Our findings are interpreted within social-ecological and emotion-norm frameworks, and we suggest promoting responsibility through nature connectedness, role modeling, and constructive worry management. Limitations, including those related to cross-sectional designs, are discussed.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48439,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Psychology","volume":"109 ","pages":"Article 102879"},"PeriodicalIF":7.0,"publicationDate":"2026-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145737587","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":"A systematic review and meta-analysis of the relationships between pro-environmental behaviours","authors":"Anda-Bianca Ciocîrlan,&nbsp;Harriet Baird,&nbsp;Richard Rowe","doi":"10.1016/j.jenvp.2025.102807","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jenvp.2025.102807","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>An understanding of the relationships between pro-environmental behaviours can enable researchers to develop more holistic approaches to encourage sustainable practices and support the design of interventions that can target multiple behaviours. The present review examines the relationships between different pro-environmental behaviours. We searched Scopus, PsycInfo, and GreenFILE, conducted forward and backward citation searches, and contacted authors of included studies for expert recommendations. Twenty-six empirical studies that measured at least two pro-environmental behaviours at an individual or household level were included, which provided 1888 correlations between pro-environmental behaviours. Random-effects meta-analysis with Robust Variance Estimation (RVE) found a small overall effect size between pro-environmental behaviours (<em>r</em> = 0.16, 95 % CI = [0.08, 0.24]). Associations were observed both between behaviours from distinct domains of pro-environmental behaviour (e.g., energy conservation and water conservation), and within the same domain (e.g., energy conservation behaviours such as turning off lights and using efficient appliances). Behaviours that belonged to the same general domain were more strongly correlated than behaviours from distinct domains (e.g., energy conservation behaviours, <em>r</em> = 0.24, 95 % CI = [0.06, 0.43]; resource management behaviours, <em>r</em> = 0.23, 95 % CI = [0.11, 0.37]). In contrast, behaviours from distinct domains showed weaker associations, such as the correlation between energy conservation and civic actions (<em>r</em> = 0.11, 95 % CI = [0.06, 0.16)]. These findings suggest that there may be an underlying pro-environmental behaviour factor that interventions could target with the potential for effectiveness across multiple behaviours,. This approach may increase intervention efficiency by targeting multiple behaviours simultaneously, maximising environmental impact while reducing resource expenditure.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48439,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Psychology","volume":"108 ","pages":"Article 102807"},"PeriodicalIF":7.0,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145424981","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":"Revisiting the gateway belief model: The importance of climate change experience and perceived threat","authors":"Fahad Asmi ,&nbsp;Mark Morrison ,&nbsp;Kevin Parton","doi":"10.1016/j.jenvp.2025.102859","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jenvp.2025.102859","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The Gateway Belief Model offers an elegant solution for shifting public support for climate change (and other) policy. “Gateway” beliefs have direct effects on support for the policy goal and influence other beliefs and attitudes that affect policy support, leading to an impact on policy support that is amplified by the inclusion of both direct and indirect effects. Central to the effectiveness of using the Gateway Belief Model is selecting the correct gateway belief, as well as identifying appropriate mediating variables. Using a sample of 2278 respondents, we proposed and compared three different GBM-inspired models to map public support for climate action. Specifically, we compared the role of confidence in climate science prediction and personal experience of climate change as alternative gateway beliefs, and the role of belief in climate change and perceived threat as mediating variables. We found that experience of climate change is a similarly effective GBM-inspired gateway belief as confidence in scientific prediction, while the perceived threat from climate change is a superior mediating variable. Using mediation analysis, we further analysed the effects from two variables in our revised model and demonstrated that cognitive beliefs (such as perceived threat of climate change) are a much stronger driver of policy support than emotional drivers (i.e., worry about climate change). This is important evidence given that negative emotionally-based climate drivers can produce significant negative effects on community mental health. We also examined whether our findings are robust across gender and political persuasion. While there are significant differences in beliefs and attitudes across these groups, the gateway path effects are consistent across most groups. Our findings highlight the importance in marketing communications of helping people to understand and interpret changes in climate and its consequences (as well as possible adaptation solutions).</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48439,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Psychology","volume":"108 ","pages":"Article 102859"},"PeriodicalIF":7.0,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145693533","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":"Recognizing climate change as global: Implications for environmental psychology research","authors":"Kim-Pong Tam","doi":"10.1016/j.jenvp.2025.102856","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jenvp.2025.102856","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48439,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Psychology","volume":"108 ","pages":"Article 102856"},"PeriodicalIF":7.0,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145693608","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":"Psychological interventions for environmental impact: A field experiment on reducing engine idling","authors":"Zoe Horsham ,&nbsp;Sarah Lily Resanovich ,&nbsp;Fanny Lalot ,&nbsp;Tim Hopthrow ,&nbsp;Dominic Abrams","doi":"10.1016/j.jenvp.2025.102852","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jenvp.2025.102852","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>A large-scale field experiment (<em>N</em> = 8948) tested psychological interventions to reduce engine idling at short-wait stops. Persuasive messages based on social influence, informational influence, and identity-based influence/community engagement were displayed at a busy intersection. This study extends previous research by (1) considering shorter waiting times (i.e., red light stops) and (2) investigating the effect of messaging over longer time periods, including post-intervention. Compared to pre-intervention baseline, all messages significantly reduced idling rates in the first phase of the experiment, by 6–16 %. The effect was retained two weeks after signs were removed. In the second phase of the experiment, the most effective message (informational influence) was displayed again over four weeks, revealing a sustained effect on engine idling reduction that persisted one week after the sign was removed. This field experiment supports the efficacy of theory-driven messaging interventions to trigger sustained pro-environmental behavioral changes. Future studies may investigate the generalizability of the present findings to other settings. We highlight implications for psychology-based pro-environmental interventions.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48439,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Psychology","volume":"108 ","pages":"Article 102852"},"PeriodicalIF":7.0,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145623923","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":"Impact of nature and architectural design in virtual residential spaces and urban settings on human mental health and well-being: A systematic review","authors":"Cleiton Pons Ferreira ,&nbsp;Paula Latorre ,&nbsp;Francisco Antonio Nieto-Escamez","doi":"10.1016/j.jenvp.2025.102821","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jenvp.2025.102821","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This systematic review investigates the role of natural and architectural elements in virtual reality (VR) environments in promoting mental health and well-being. Following PRISMA guidelines, 93 studies were included after screening 6661 initially identified records, applying stringent inclusion and exclusion criteria to ensure methodological rigor. Geographically, the majority of studies were conducted in Asia, followed by Western Europe and North America, highlighting a global interest in leveraging VR for urban and residential design evaluation. Temporal analysis reveals a significant increase in research output starting in 2016, coinciding with advances in VR technology and its adoption in environmental psychology. The review explores the integration of biophilic elements, architectural features, lighting, and acoustic qualities in urban VR environments, demonstrating their potential to reduce stress, enhance relaxation, and improve emotional well-being. Included studies utilized subjective measures and physiological indicators, such as heart rate variability and cortisol levels, to assess psychological outcomes. However, methodological limitations were evident, including small sample sizes, limited participant diversity, and variability in study designs. Notably, none of the studies achieved a \"good\" rating in quality assessment using the NHLBI tool, emphasizing the need for methodological improvements across the field. This review highlights VR's transformative potential as a tool for urban planning and design, enabling the simulation and optimization of built environments to enhance mental health and well-being. Future research should prioritize larger, more diverse samples and longitudinal methodologies to validate findings and explore the sustainability of VR-driven interventions.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48439,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Psychology","volume":"108 ","pages":"Article 102821"},"PeriodicalIF":7.0,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145424922","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 climate's nuanced truth: Why past disasters fail to ignite action","authors":"John D. Adolfo","doi":"10.1016/j.jenvp.2025.102810","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jenvp.2025.102810","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The public's response to escalating climate disasters often appears perplexing. This letter highlights research suggesting that it's not solely the experience of past extreme events, but the anticipation of more severe future events, that is a key factor in mobilizing support for climate policy. This perspective challenges communication strategies focused predominantly on recounting past events. Effective communication could benefit from framing current events as indicators of future threats, thereby making the urgency of future implications more tangible.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48439,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Psychology","volume":"108 ","pages":"Article 102810"},"PeriodicalIF":7.0,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145365418","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":"Leveraging social norms for sustainable behaviour: How the exposure to static-and-dynamic-norms encourages sufficiency and consumption reduction of fashion","authors":"Giulia Granato,&nbsp;Ruth Mugge","doi":"10.1016/j.jenvp.2025.102809","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jenvp.2025.102809","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Contemporary communication platforms, ranging from social media to traditional news outlets, frequently present static norms, reflecting established behaviours (e.g., eating meat, drinking alcohol at parties) in combination with dynamic norms that signal evolving societal trends (e.g., adopting more plant-based diets, attending alcohol-free events). Despite the widespread exposure to such combined static-and-dynamic-norm communications, its influence on consumer behaviour remains unexplored. This research addresses this gap by conducting two laboratory experiments to investigate the impact of static-and-dynamic-norm communications on sustainable behaviour towards reduction of fast fashion consumption.</div><div>The results demonstrate that participants exposed to the combination of unsustainable static and unsustainable dynamic norms purchased significantly fewer fashion items than those in other experimental conditions. This behavioural change is affected by a process of <em>social moral cleansing</em>, wherein participants, upon confronting with the widespread unsustainable behaviour of others, experienced a highlighted motivation to counteract these behaviours by acting more sustainably themselves. These findings contribute to the growing literature on social normative influence in sustainable consumption contexts. By identifying a novel and effective normative communication strategy for reducing consumption, this research offers valuable insights for researchers, designers and policy makers seeking to promote sufficiency-oriented behaviour and foster long-term sustainable behavioural change.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48439,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Psychology","volume":"108 ","pages":"Article 102809"},"PeriodicalIF":7.0,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145334805","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":"Black Summer arson: Examining the impact of climate misinformation and corrections on reasoning","authors":"Emily R. Spearing ,&nbsp;Eryn J. Newman ,&nbsp;Iain Walker ,&nbsp;John Cook ,&nbsp;Tim Kurz ,&nbsp;Ullrich K.H. Ecker","doi":"10.1016/j.jenvp.2025.102842","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jenvp.2025.102842","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Climate misinformation has been identified as a barrier to mitigative action. One prominent example occurred when the 2019/2020 “Black Summer” bushfires in Australia were blamed on arson. This claim is cognitively attractive because of its simplicity and was widely publicised at the time, but also thoroughly debunked. In two experiments, we examined the impact of a fictional misleading article implicating arson as the primary cause of the Black Summer fires on Australian (Exp. 1, <em>N</em> = 509) and Canadian (Exp. 2, <em>N</em> = 506) participants' reasoning, associated donation behaviour, and climate change attitudes. The misinformation significantly influenced reasoning about the Black Summer and future fires in both experiments; it also reduced the donations of Australian participants to a local climate organisation and impacted Canadian participants’ reasoning about a novel, conceptually related (but fictional) flooding event. Corrections were largely effective at mitigating misinformation impact. A bolstered correction that portrayed climate change as an important causal factor through its impact on risks and emphasised the multicausality of natural disasters was more effective than a simple correction that merely refuted the misinformation. Climate change attitudes were largely unaffected by the misinformation and interventions. Our findings demonstrate that event-specific climate misinformation can influence reasoning beyond a specific event, and that corrections are broadly useful for combatting its effects.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48439,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Psychology","volume":"108 ","pages":"Article 102842"},"PeriodicalIF":7.0,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145474735","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":"How do individual differences in interoception influence navigation in virtual and real environments?","authors":"Erica Dolce ,&nbsp;Maria Laura Gidari ,&nbsp;Irene Ruffo ,&nbsp;Anna Longo ,&nbsp;Vittoria Siciliano ,&nbsp;Silvia Canino ,&nbsp;Maddalena Boccia ,&nbsp;Fabrizia D'Antonio ,&nbsp;Antonella Di Vita ,&nbsp;Simona Raimo ,&nbsp;Liana Palermo","doi":"10.1016/j.jenvp.2025.102814","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jenvp.2025.102814","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The possible impact of the interindividual variability in interoception on human navigation remains unexplored. However, recent theories suggest that interoceptive inputs are essential for cognition, and evolutionary perspectives link navigation to interoceptive processing related to energy regulation.</div><div>Building on this evidence, we present three studies on healthy volunteers aimed at exploring whether individual differences in conscious interoceptive dimensions (interoceptive sensibility, accuracy, and awareness) predict individual differences in spatial knowledge of both virtual (Studies 1 and 2) and real-world (Study 3) environments.</div><div>Study 1 was a web-based study in which 142 participants completed an interoceptive sensibility (ISe) questionnaire and three tasks probing route, landmark, and survey knowledge of an environment acquired from a video presentation. No significant relationship was found between ISe and environmental knowledge, as assessed using virtual navigation tasks.</div><div>Study 2 extends Study 1 by exploring other relevant interoceptive dimensions, specifically interoceptive accuracy (IAcc) and awareness (IAw), in a laboratory-based setting. In this study, 110 participants completed an ISe questionnaire and the Heartbeat Counting Task to measure IAcc and IAw, as well as desktop-based tasks probing landmark, route, and survey knowledge of a virtual environment. Results from this study provided some indication that higher IAcc could be linked to slower performance in the landmark task.</div><div>Study 3 moves from a virtual to a real-world environment. A total of 45 participants completed the IAcc, IAw, and ISe measures, as well as tasks that probed landmark, route, and survey knowledge of a real environment and involved first-person, actual navigation. The results suggest a possible link between higher IAcc and better performance in the route and survey tasks.</div><div>These findings offer new empirical evidence on the relationship between interoception and environmental navigation. Tentatively, while heightened IAcc might impair attention to external cues (landmarks), at least in virtual environments (Study 2), it could enhance real-world navigational tasks of enviroments that have been directly explored from an egocentric perspective (Study 3). However, these findings should be interpreted with caution, as the overall association across studies was weak, and warrant replication in future studies using additional measures of both interoception and navigation.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48439,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Psychology","volume":"108 ","pages":"Article 102814"},"PeriodicalIF":7.0,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145424926","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}