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{"title":"Children's moral judgments and reasoning regarding environmentally harmful behaviors: Variation by victim type and moderation effect of connectedness to nature","authors":"Hye-Jung Cho ,&nbsp;Naya Choi","doi":"10.1016/j.jenvp.2024.102475","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jenvp.2024.102475","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study explored the differences in young children's moral judgments regarding environmentally harmful behaviors based on victim type and the moderation effect of connectedness to nature (CN). Further, this study investigated which reasoning types (ecocentric, anthropocentric, and non-environmental) significantly explained children's moral judgment. This study included 185 five-year-old Korean children and their mothers. The children participated in two interview sessions. In one session, they were randomly assigned to one of five groups—no video or video with unspecified, human, animal, or plant victim. In another session, they completed a Korean sentence comprehension test and a task assessing their recognition of animals and plants from the video. Mothers responded to a survey on their children's CN and engagement in pro-environmental activities. A generalized Linear Mixed Model was employed using SPSS Win 27.0. Children's judgment of environmentally harmful behaviors was more negative when presented with unspecified or human victims. The reasoning for their moral judgments and the moderating role of their CN varied by victim type. Environmental reasoning, especially ecocentric reasoning, was crucial in explaining children's moral judgments of environmentally harmful behaviors. Thus, considering victims and environmental reasoning types is important for environmental education for sustainable development for young children, emphasizing the need to enhance children's CN.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48439,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Psychology","volume":"101 ","pages":"Article 102475"},"PeriodicalIF":6.1,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143099883","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 attractive is sustainability in products: A Systematic Review about eye-tracking studies on sustainability labels","authors":"Alexandra Hoffmann ,&nbsp;Pia Stork ,&nbsp;Moritz Madysa ,&nbsp;Yuri Borgianni","doi":"10.1016/j.jenvp.2025.102519","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jenvp.2025.102519","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In recent years, the number of studies applying eye-tracking to investigate the perception of eco-labels present on products has increased and started generating valuable information for both academics and industry. However, methodological approaches and results are still fragmented, and no attempts have been made to provide an overall understanding of the main findings. The aim of this study is to systematically analyze research concerned with the perception of sustainability labels and how it affects individuals’ choice behavior. The review identified 51 papers reporting commonly applied paradigms as well as visual stimuli investigated via eye-tracking. Results are presented along with their theoretical and practical implications. In addition, we highlight the lack of studies with appropriate ecological validity in the existing literature and suggest further research directions applying mobile eye-tracking when it comes to the investigation of gaze behavior during shopping and decision-making processes.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48439,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Psychology","volume":"101 ","pages":"Article 102519"},"PeriodicalIF":6.1,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143099293","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":"East-West beliefs challenged by North-South evidence about collectivism versus individualism","authors":"Evert Van de Vliert ,&nbsp;Brett Pelham ,&nbsp;Joseph A. Vandello","doi":"10.1016/j.jenvp.2024.102498","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jenvp.2024.102498","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Psychologists inevitably study people from collectivistic or individualistic cultures, who have adapted their psychosocial habits to their natural habitats. Therefore, understanding the precursors of degrees of collectivism is essential. To this end, the present report shows that, geographically, collectivism varies negligibly from East to West but decreases at higher latitudes, even across 50 African countries (low latitudes), 50 United States (intermediate latitudes), and 85 Russian regions (high latitudes). Ecologically, there is robust support for the system-theoretical hypothesis that greater stability of day length, temperature, and daily precipitation over the course of the year promotes collectivism. Consequently, geographical positionings of collectivism in the distant past can forecast geographical positionings of collectivism today. This long-term predictability of collectivism versus individualism holds true in all four hemispheres as well as on finer spatial scales. This includes Africans inhabiting the oldest human habitats on Earth and Americans residing in the relatively young United States.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48439,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Psychology","volume":"101 ","pages":"Article 102498"},"PeriodicalIF":6.1,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143099303","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":"Worry's Clout: Concern, not positive affectivity, drives climate activism","authors":"Myriam N. Bechtoldt ,&nbsp;Karin Schermelleh-Engel","doi":"10.1016/j.jenvp.2024.102517","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jenvp.2024.102517","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In a one-year, three-wave longitudinal study from July 2021 to July 2022, the relationship between climate-related worry, positive affectivity when reflecting on climate change, and climate activism was examined. The study involved a stratified sample of Germans aged 16–70 years, representative of both gender and age. To enable the analyses, the Climate Activism Scale (CLAC) was developed. Despite the urgency of the climate issue, only a minority of individuals actively participate in climate activism; violent or illegal forms of protest do not accurately represent climate activists. Using continuous time structural equation modeling, the findings reveal a reciprocal relationship between climate activism and worry about climate change. Climate worry predicts increased activism but activism also increases worry. The effects peak after one year. Climate positive affectivity does not predict activism; instead, engagement against climate change marginally decreases climate-related positive affectivity. The data also show that climate-related positive affectivity is a stronger indicator of denial-based hope rather than constructive hope. The findings emphasize the greater relevance of negative emotions in driving societal engagement against climate change. However, exploratory analyses reveal that emotional ambivalence—the combination of climate-related worry and positive affectivity—is more effective than worry alone in predicting climate activism.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48439,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Psychology","volume":"101 ","pages":"Article 102517"},"PeriodicalIF":6.1,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143099835","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":"Intrinsic functional connectivity correlates of pro-environmentalism","authors":"Joshua M. Carlson,&nbsp;Morgan Oja,&nbsp;Lin Fang","doi":"10.1016/j.jenvp.2024.102512","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jenvp.2024.102512","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Climate change is a global issue facing humanity in real time. Understanding the neurocognitive mechanisms of individuals engaging in environmentally sustainable behavior may help to mitigate this mounting issue. Various brain mechanisms have been implicated in pro-environmental behavior, including sustainability-related decision making and prospective consideration of sustainable behaviors. These neural mechanisms appear to include brain networks involved in cognitive control, emotion/salience, and default mode processing. However, the relationship between environmental attitudes, a precursor to pro-environmental behavior, and the intrinsic functional connectivity of these networks has yet to be assessed. We collected resting state functional magnetic resonance imaging data to explore the baseline patterns of neural connectivity that relate to pro-environmental attitudes. Our results identified two patterns of functional connectivity linked to pro-environmental attitudes: 1) greater connectivity across brain networks involved in cognitive control and salience detection processes and 2) weaker connectivity within a brain network involved in cognitive control. Subsequent analyses indicate that these patterns of greater cross network and weaker within network connectivity independently contribute variance to individual differences in pro-environmental attitudes and—via this pathway—are indirectly related to levels of self-reported engagement in climate action. Thus, various patterns of intrinsic baseline functional connectivity of networks involved in salience-related and goal-directed processing relate to pro-environmentalism.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48439,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Psychology","volume":"101 ","pages":"Article 102512"},"PeriodicalIF":6.1,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143099885","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":"Living closer to the beach is associated with better socioemotional development in young boys","authors":"Phoebe George ,&nbsp;Kevin Murray ,&nbsp;Bryan Boruff ,&nbsp;Hayley Christian","doi":"10.1016/j.jenvp.2024.102497","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jenvp.2024.102497","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Background</h3><div>Natural outdoor environments such as green and blue spaces have increasingly been seen as key health and wellbeing determinants for adults. However, it is unclear if these effects are seen in young children. We examined the associations between access to natural green and blue space and young children's socioemotional development.</div></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><div>Cross-sectional baseline data for 1525 young children (median age 3.3 years) in the PLAYCE cohort study were examined. The parent-report Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) total difficulties score was used as a measure of socioemotional development. High-resolution aerial imagery and Geographic Information Systems were used to identify total percentage of neighbourhood vegetation and vegetation components (grass, shrubs, and trees) and total percentage of blue space (ocean, riverways and lakes and swamps) for 1600m network service areas and 5000m buffer areas around children's residences. Road network distance to the closest beach, patrolled beach and dog beach were also calculated. Multiple linear regression analyses were used to examine the associations between green and blue space variables and children's total difficulties score, adjusting for covariates.</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>Several associations were observed amongst young boys' socioemotional development and distance to the closest beach and patrolled beach, with boys’ socioemotional development improving with decreasing distance to the beach even after adjusting for neighbourhood socioeconomic status. No significant associations were found between the amount of neighbourhood blue space or vegetation within the 1600m or 5000m service area and preschooler social and emotional development.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusions</h3><div>These findings highlight the potential benefit of living closer to a beach for socioemotional development, particularly for young boys. Our findings have implications for urban planning in terms of the need for improved access to beaches and the protection of natural environments to support young children's development.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48439,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Psychology","volume":"101 ","pages":"Article 102497"},"PeriodicalIF":6.1,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143099299","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":"The contribution of environmental sensitivity and connectedness to nature to mental health: Does nature view count?","authors":"IsabellaL.C. Mariani Wigley ,&nbsp;Sarah Nazzari ,&nbsp;Massimiliano Pastore ,&nbsp;Livio Provenzi ,&nbsp;Serena Barello","doi":"10.1016/j.jenvp.2025.102541","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jenvp.2025.102541","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The increasing prevalence of mental health concerns, coupled with rapid urbanization, underscores the need for comprehensive research into the complex dynamics between human beings and their natural surroundings. The present study seeks to elucidate the individual and interactive pathways linking environmental sensitivity, connectedness to nature, and exposure to nature with mental health outcomes. Data were collected via a cross-sectional survey involving a large sample of n = 807 Italian citizens. Bayesian analyses revealed that higher environmental sensitivity was associated with increased risk of reporting symptoms of stress, anxiety, and depression. Additionally, connectedness to nature mediated the relationship between environmental sensitivity and mental health problems, while nature exposure interacted with environmental sensitivity to predict levels of nature connectedness. Specifically, visual exposure to nature appears to enhance the feeling of connection to nature, particularly among highly sensitive individuals, thereby mitigating the risk of psychological distress. These findings suggest that fostering a connection with nature, particularly for those with high environmental sensitivity, may be a crucial strategy for promoting mental well-being in urban environments.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48439,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Psychology","volume":"102 ","pages":"Article 102541"},"PeriodicalIF":6.1,"publicationDate":"2025-01-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143160771","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":"Economic vulnerability and emotions toward climate change: A case study of Spain","authors":"Juan J. Fernández ,&nbsp;Lluis Orriols ,&nbsp;Paloma Abril","doi":"10.1016/j.jenvp.2025.102537","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jenvp.2025.102537","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Emotional reactions to climate change facilitate behavioral reactions. Individuals who experience negative emotions toward climate change are more likely to support and implement mitigation actions and policies than otherwise. Due to this link between emotions and behaviors, several studies have analyzed negative emotions toward global change. However, scant work has explored the influence of individual and contextual economic vulnerabilities. We argue that individuals who experience objective deprivation or reside in left-behind areas are cognitively and emotionally predisposed to link climate change to negative emotions. These groups endure greater economic hardship, anxiety and fear, enhancing their perception of external threats. This heightened perception enables them to more readily identify the local problems caused by climate change and link these problems to negative emotions. We test this expectation through a case study of Spain, a country particularly affected by climate change. Employing multilevel models and a novel online survey (N = 15,059) conducted in Spain, we assess whether individuals who experience greater objective economic deprivation, as well as those who live in counties with higher unemployment, fewer basic services or lower urbanization levels, display greater fear and anxiety toward climate change. The evidence partially supports our expectation. Individuals with greater economic deprivation report more climate fear and climate anxiety. In addition, individuals in high-unemployment counties also report more climate fear.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48439,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Psychology","volume":"102 ","pages":"Article 102537"},"PeriodicalIF":6.1,"publicationDate":"2025-01-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143328125","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":"How feeling loved inspires the purchase of green foods","authors":"Decong Tang ,&nbsp;Jianhong Chen ,&nbsp;Qiuxia Jiang ,&nbsp;Heliang Huang ,&nbsp;Manhua Zheng","doi":"10.1016/j.jenvp.2025.102523","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jenvp.2025.102523","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Love is fundamental to human nature, transcending race and nation, with descriptions rooted in diverse cultural backgrounds. Thanks to some past research, the concept of love has evolved from abstract to concrete, making it increasingly “measurable.” Emerging studies focus on applying love, but research on how feeling loved influences green food purchase intention is still nascent. On the foundation of the Broaden-and-Build Theory, a research framework was created. It delves into how the emotion of love affects consumers’ purchase intention for green food. It uncovers the roles of self-esteem and social crowding in this process. The findings reveal that individuals’ increased green food purchase intention when feeling loved is particularly pronounced in less crowded environments and is achieved by boosting their self-esteem. Additionally, the study provides a deeper understanding of the impact of feeling loved on food marketing practices.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48439,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Psychology","volume":"102 ","pages":"Article 102523"},"PeriodicalIF":6.1,"publicationDate":"2025-01-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143160766","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":"Stairs as multifunctional spaces: Cortical responses to environmental affordances incorporate the intention to act","authors":"Christopher Hilton ,&nbsp;Lilian Befort ,&nbsp;Ronja Brinkmann ,&nbsp;Matthias Ballestrem ,&nbsp;Joerg Fingerhut ,&nbsp;Klaus Gramann","doi":"10.1016/j.jenvp.2025.102528","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jenvp.2025.102528","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Urban planning and design principles would benefit from enhanced understanding of how public spaces afford engagement. Place affordances refer to the behaviours that the architecture of a place enables the perceiving agent to enact and are incorporated into the early stages of human perceptual processes. However, less is known about how an agent's action intentions are integrated into the perception of affordances. In the present study, we presented participants with images of an architectural structure featuring lateral and central staircases with either high or low steps whilst recording brain activity with electroencephalography (EEG). Participants were primed to consider either reading a book, or meeting friends in the places, and were asked to rate the appropriateness of the places for the given activity and to select the location within the scene where they would conduct that activity. There was also a control condition with no primed activity that involved aesthetic ratings of the same places. Behavioural ratings showed that high steps were preferred for reading compared to low steps whereas step height was not a significant factor for conducting a social activity. Participants preferred the lateral stairs to read on, but shifted to the central stairway when the high steps were central with low steps on the lateral sides. In contrast, participants preferred the central stairway to conduct a social activity in all stair configurations. The EEG data showed no significant differences between the two activity conditions in early perceptual processes. However, pronounced differences in early brain dynamics were observed when participants judged places for activities compared to aesthetics. Specifically, latencies of the visual evoked P1 component were shorter and amplitudes were reduced for the aesthetic ratings, which also yielded larger P2 and P300 amplitudes, signifying modulation of perceptual and attentional processes for the exact same stimuli, by the intention to act. These results demonstrate the importance of human action intentions in the environment when considering place affordances.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48439,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Psychology","volume":"102 ","pages":"Article 102528"},"PeriodicalIF":6.1,"publicationDate":"2025-01-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143160770","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}