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Expanding self-determination theory: Examining the role of nature relatedness in agroforestry adoption among Indigenous landholders in Mexico 扩展自决理论:考察自然关系在墨西哥土著土地所有者采用农林业中的作用
IF 7 1区 心理学
Journal of Environmental Psychology Pub Date : 2025-08-21 DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvp.2025.102732
Sophia Winkler-Schor , Carena J. van Riper , Driss Ezzine-de-Blas , Lisa Naughton-Treves
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Walking to the urban green: Increases in positive emotions and perceived restorativeness, but not mental representation ability 步行到城市绿地:增加积极情绪和知觉恢复,但没有心理表征能力
IF 7 1区 心理学
Journal of Environmental Psychology Pub Date : 2025-08-20 DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvp.2025.102734
Veronica Muffato , Laura Miola , Anahita Soltantouyeh , Francesca Pazzaglia , Chiara Meneghetti
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Cognitive bias in perceived concern with rainfall: Implications for climate adaptation 对降雨的认知偏差:对气候适应的影响
IF 7 1区 心理学
Journal of Environmental Psychology Pub Date : 2025-08-20 DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvp.2025.102737
Emil Skog , Isak Sandlund , Patrik Sörqvist
{"title":"Cognitive bias in perceived concern with rainfall: Implications for climate adaptation","authors":"Emil Skog ,&nbsp;Isak Sandlund ,&nbsp;Patrik Sörqvist","doi":"10.1016/j.jenvp.2025.102737","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jenvp.2025.102737","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Rainfall data usually comprise large sets of complex information, with data points spread across both time and space. To be understood, such environmentally significant data must be integrated—but distribution shapes can bias this integration process. Distribution biases can lead to differing levels of concern with rainfall, and in turn, alter the perceived importance of climate adaptation measures. In three experiments, participants reported greater concern about rainfall and reported stronger climate adaptation intentions when rainfall distributions were negatively skewed compared to positively skewed, even though both distributions contained identical total rainfall. This cognitive bias from skewed distributions persisted in both retrospective judgments of entire stimulus sets, and in evaluations of additional instances of rainfall, and it depended on foreknowledge of stimulus context (i.e., the shape and endpoints of the distribution). The results demonstrate how cognitive bias can influence the formation of environmental attitudes.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48439,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Psychology","volume":"106 ","pages":"Article 102737"},"PeriodicalIF":7.0,"publicationDate":"2025-08-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144904433","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}
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The complaining but competent confronter: An experimental examination of the social costs and benefits related to interpersonal confrontations in climate change conversations 抱怨但有能力的对抗者:对气候变化对话中人际对抗的社会成本和收益的实验研究
IF 7 1区 心理学
Journal of Environmental Psychology Pub Date : 2025-08-20 DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvp.2025.102738
Sandra Klaperski-van der Wal , Jil Laukamp , Arushi Garg , Ferry van de Pol
{"title":"The complaining but competent confronter: An experimental examination of the social costs and benefits related to interpersonal confrontations in climate change conversations","authors":"Sandra Klaperski-van der Wal ,&nbsp;Jil Laukamp ,&nbsp;Arushi Garg ,&nbsp;Ferry van de Pol","doi":"10.1016/j.jenvp.2025.102738","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jenvp.2025.102738","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Previous evidence has shown that individuals who openly disapprove of a conversation partner's environmentally undesirable behaviour are subject to negative evaluations from observers, commonly referred to as social costs. This study examined whether these findings can still be replicated several years later and whether social costs are influenced by the perceived morality of a topic.</div><div>We conducted three separate experimental studies with in total <em>N</em> = 715 participants. Participants read an online vignette in which provocative statements regarding climate change or injustice were either confronted or not. ANOVAs and moderation analyses were used to compare the participants’ ratings of the characters in the different confrontation conditions and the role of morality.</div><div>The results revealed that, regardless of the conversation topic, confronters were evaluated significantly more negatively than non-confronters on only one social cost outcome. For the first time, we also found evidence for the emergence of more <em>beneficial</em> evaluations of confronters in the environmental domain. Furthermore, our findings partially support the assumption that more social costs arise when a topic is perceived as less moral.</div><div>We conclude that our findings do not support previous conclusions stating that confronting climate change disregard is less acceptable than confronting racism. Instead, our results suggest that confronters of undesirable behaviour might in general even be perceived as more competent than non-confronters. An important next step for future studies is to examine real conversations and actual behavioural consequences.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48439,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Psychology","volume":"107 ","pages":"Article 102738"},"PeriodicalIF":7.0,"publicationDate":"2025-08-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145061271","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}
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No cool dudes in Austria: Determinants of Austrian climate change skepticism 奥地利没有酷男:奥地利气候变化怀疑论者的决定因素
IF 7 1区 心理学
Journal of Environmental Psychology Pub Date : 2025-08-19 DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvp.2025.102733
Susanne Bolte, Johannes Klackl, Jochim Hansen, Eva Jonas, Isabella Uhl-Hädicke
{"title":"No cool dudes in Austria: Determinants of Austrian climate change skepticism","authors":"Susanne Bolte,&nbsp;Johannes Klackl,&nbsp;Jochim Hansen,&nbsp;Eva Jonas,&nbsp;Isabella Uhl-Hädicke","doi":"10.1016/j.jenvp.2025.102733","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jenvp.2025.102733","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In the United States, conservative white men are demonstrably more skeptical about climate change than other adults, earning them the label “Cool Dudes.” Cool Dudes who self-reported understand climate change very well (i.e., high subjective climate literacy) are particularly skeptical about it. We investigated the existence of a similar effect in Austria using a representative survey study (<em>N</em> = 2185). We measured and regressed climate change skepticism on participants' gender, age, education, political orientation, self-reported knowledge of climate change, and subjective climate literacy. We found no evidence of a Cool Dude-like pattern in Austria. Men were not significantly more climate-skeptical than women, regardless of their political orientation. Nevertheless, climate skeptics were older, more conservative, and less educated and more often stated that they were not well-informed about climate change. High subjective climate literacy was associated with higher skepticism about climate change among conservatives yet lower skepticism among liberals. High subjective climate literacy was also associated with higher skepticism among those not informed about climate change. These results underline the importance of political orientation, information seeking, and subjective climate literacy, but not gender, for predicting climate change skepticism in Austria.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48439,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Psychology","volume":"106 ","pages":"Article 102733"},"PeriodicalIF":7.0,"publicationDate":"2025-08-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144895801","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}
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How do moral values relate to climate change attitudes? An analysis of language use on X (formerly Twitter) and Weibo 道德价值观与气候变化态度有何关系?X(以前的Twitter)和微博上的语言使用分析
IF 7 1区 心理学
Journal of Environmental Psychology Pub Date : 2025-08-19 DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvp.2025.102736
Yunya Song , Chris Chao Su , Yuanhang Lu , Qintao Huang , Jonathon P. Schuldt
{"title":"How do moral values relate to climate change attitudes? An analysis of language use on X (formerly Twitter) and Weibo","authors":"Yunya Song ,&nbsp;Chris Chao Su ,&nbsp;Yuanhang Lu ,&nbsp;Qintao Huang ,&nbsp;Jonathon P. Schuldt","doi":"10.1016/j.jenvp.2025.102736","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jenvp.2025.102736","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Understanding the cultural and moral frameworks that shape public attitudes toward climate change is essential for fostering environmental engagement and sustainable behavior. Using supervised transfer-learning techniques and computational text analysis, this study investigates climate change discourse on X (formerly Twitter) and Sina Weibo, two major social media platforms with contrasting cultural contexts, from 2016 to 2021, focusing on the moral foundations and issue topics driving public attitudes. Climate activism emerges as the dominant stance on both platforms, rooted in the care foundation and reflecting global environmental concern. However, fairness is linked to skepticism on Weibo and neutrality on X, revealing cultural differences in perceptions of climate justice and responsibility. Binding moral foundations prominently relate to activism on Weibo but are associated with neutrality on X. Topic modeling uncovers issue-specific contexts, highlighting the nuanced interplay between cultural norms and moral reasoning in climate communication. These findings emphasize the importance of culturally tailored messaging strategies to foster pro-environmental attitudes and global cooperation in addressing climate change.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48439,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Psychology","volume":"106 ","pages":"Article 102736"},"PeriodicalIF":7.0,"publicationDate":"2025-08-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144916671","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}
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Nature exposure impacts affect and brain activation in health and major depression 自然暴露影响健康和重度抑郁症患者的情绪和大脑活动
IF 7 1区 心理学
Journal of Environmental Psychology Pub Date : 2025-08-16 DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvp.2025.102730
Marco Kramer , Marie Winhard , Georg Juckel, Paraskevi Mavrogiorgou
{"title":"Nature exposure impacts affect and brain activation in health and major depression","authors":"Marco Kramer ,&nbsp;Marie Winhard ,&nbsp;Georg Juckel,&nbsp;Paraskevi Mavrogiorgou","doi":"10.1016/j.jenvp.2025.102730","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jenvp.2025.102730","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Considerable research attention has been devoted to the negative impact of urban compared to natural environments on mental health and well-being. Recent studies have addressed the neurobiological underpinnings but have mostly focused on post-hoc effects. How brain activation is acutely changed during nature exposure has barely been investigated. This study sought to assess how affect and cortical activation patterns in a natural environment differ from those in an urban area and how this is influenced by depressive symptoms. To this end, portable functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) was used in a 16x16 optode layout to measure cortical activation during a 10-min stay in either a natural or urban environment in 16 patients with major depression and 16 healthy controls. Effects on affect and cognition were explored using questionnaires. Across the whole sample, nature exposure reduced negative affect. When fNIRS channels were allocated to anatomically informed regions of interest, we found decreased spontaneous neural activity in the left ventrolateral prefrontal cortex (PFC) and the right superior temporal gyrus during nature compared to urban exposure, albeit uncorrected for multiple comparisons. Using a data-driven approach, cluster-based permutation testing confirmed a reduced activation of the left PFC during nature exposure. Brain activation remained uninfluenced by depression or antidepressant medication, but depressive symptoms correlated with a reduction of negative affect. Given the limited sample size, these data should be treated as exploratory and only preliminary evidence to suggest that time spent in nature might reduce the strain on brain regions involved in regulating negative emotions and social stress, largely unaffected by depression. These findings warrant replication in larger, future studies.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48439,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Psychology","volume":"106 ","pages":"Article 102730"},"PeriodicalIF":7.0,"publicationDate":"2025-08-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144863672","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}
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Responsibility for future generations and climate change mitigation: A cross-national study of predictors of pro-environmentalism in Europe 对子孙后代的责任和减缓气候变化:欧洲亲环境主义预测因素的跨国研究
IF 7 1区 心理学
Journal of Environmental Psychology Pub Date : 2025-08-14 DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvp.2025.102729
Kyle Fiore Law , Zhaoquan Wang , Christian T. Elbaek , Antoinette Fage-Butler , Panagiotis Mitkidis , Theofilos Gkinopoulos , Ewa Szumowska , Gabriela Czarnek , Adrian Dominik Wojcik , Simon Fulgsang , Dominika Jurgiel , Małgorzata Dzimińska , Izabela Warwas , Michal Parzuchowski , Olga Bialobrzeska , Mariola Paruzel-Czachura , Katarzyna Pypno-Blajda , Myrto Pantazi , Grégoire Lits , Bram Spruyt , Stylianos Syropoulos
{"title":"Responsibility for future generations and climate change mitigation: A cross-national study of predictors of pro-environmentalism in Europe","authors":"Kyle Fiore Law ,&nbsp;Zhaoquan Wang ,&nbsp;Christian T. Elbaek ,&nbsp;Antoinette Fage-Butler ,&nbsp;Panagiotis Mitkidis ,&nbsp;Theofilos Gkinopoulos ,&nbsp;Ewa Szumowska ,&nbsp;Gabriela Czarnek ,&nbsp;Adrian Dominik Wojcik ,&nbsp;Simon Fulgsang ,&nbsp;Dominika Jurgiel ,&nbsp;Małgorzata Dzimińska ,&nbsp;Izabela Warwas ,&nbsp;Michal Parzuchowski ,&nbsp;Olga Bialobrzeska ,&nbsp;Mariola Paruzel-Czachura ,&nbsp;Katarzyna Pypno-Blajda ,&nbsp;Myrto Pantazi ,&nbsp;Grégoire Lits ,&nbsp;Bram Spruyt ,&nbsp;Stylianos Syropoulos","doi":"10.1016/j.jenvp.2025.102729","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jenvp.2025.102729","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Feeling personally responsible for climate change is a key predictor of pro-environmental action. Recent U.S.-based research finds that people more strongly endorse responsibility to protect future generations (RFG) than responsibility to reduce climate change (RCC). Here, we conceptually replicated this finding across six European countries and tested whether RFG and RCC predicted climate-relevant attitudes beyond the U.S. context. Consistent with prior work, RFG was endorsed slightly more than RCC, and both types of responsibility significantly predicted support for climate policy. Additionally, RFG and RCC were positively associated with negative emotional responses to climate change and with attributions of increasing severe weather events, both past and anticipated, to climate change. These results suggest that even in less polarized political environments, responsibility to future generations is more widely endorsed than responsibility to mitigate climate change. Still, both constructs appear psychologically meaningful and help explain variation in climate concern and policy support.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48439,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Psychology","volume":"106 ","pages":"Article 102729"},"PeriodicalIF":7.0,"publicationDate":"2025-08-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144858430","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}
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Finite pool of worry and emotions in climate change tweets during COVID-19 在COVID-19期间,气候变化推文中的担忧和情绪有限
IF 7 1区 心理学
Journal of Environmental Psychology Pub Date : 2025-08-14 DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvp.2025.102728
Oleg Smirnov , Pei-Hsun Hsieh , Ignacio Urbina
{"title":"Finite pool of worry and emotions in climate change tweets during COVID-19","authors":"Oleg Smirnov ,&nbsp;Pei-Hsun Hsieh ,&nbsp;Ignacio Urbina","doi":"10.1016/j.jenvp.2025.102728","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jenvp.2025.102728","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Whether the COVID-19 pandemic diverted public attention away from the issue of climate change is a topic that divided scholars in recent years. Two competing theories have emerged: the ‘finite pool of worry’, which asserts that concerns over the pandemic have overshadowed those for climate change, and the ‘finite pool of attention’, which argues that although attention to climate change has waned, worry has remained steady or even intensified – in line with affect generalization theory. Survey research appears to support the latter hypothesis more strongly. In this study, we investigate this theoretical discourse and revisit these conclusions by conducting an emotional content analysis on a novel dataset of nearly 24 million Twitter posts related to climate change from 2018 to 2022. Employing three lexicons—LIWC, NRC Lex, and VADER—we find that climate change tweets exhibit a decline in expressions of fear, anxiety, and other negative emotions concurrent with COVID-19 surges. Our daily-level analysis incorporates controls such as media coverage of climate change, the occurrence of climate-related disasters like hurricanes and wildfires, and the impact of major political events, including the 2020 presidential election. The negative association between COVID-19 severity and climate change worry was strongest in 2020, weakening progressively in 2021 and 2022.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48439,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Psychology","volume":"106 ","pages":"Article 102728"},"PeriodicalIF":7.0,"publicationDate":"2025-08-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144863673","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}
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Capturing nature Connectedness: Validity and utility of the Dutch nature connection index 捕捉自然联系:荷兰自然联系指数的有效性和实用性
IF 7 1区 心理学
Journal of Environmental Psychology Pub Date : 2025-08-12 DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvp.2025.102727
Nicole van den Bogerd , Miles Richardson , Juliën Bentvelsen , Karen Holtmaat , S.M. Labib , Jolanda Maas
{"title":"Capturing nature Connectedness: Validity and utility of the Dutch nature connection index","authors":"Nicole van den Bogerd ,&nbsp;Miles Richardson ,&nbsp;Juliën Bentvelsen ,&nbsp;Karen Holtmaat ,&nbsp;S.M. Labib ,&nbsp;Jolanda Maas","doi":"10.1016/j.jenvp.2025.102727","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jenvp.2025.102727","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Nature connectedness is increasingly recognized for its role in promoting mental health and planetary health. Valid nature connectedness scales are crucial to study these relations. While several scales exist to measure this construct, there is a need for improvement in their methodological quality. This study aimed to evaluate the validity and utility of the Dutch translation of the Nature Connection Index (NCI), a scale originally developed in English by Hunt et al. (2017) and Richardson et al. (2019). Survey data from two samples of young adults aged between 18 and 35 years were used (n = 1728; n = 1608). Confirmatory Factor Analysis and Exploratory Factor Analysis were performed, and Cronbach's alfa was calculated. Pearson's correlations between the NCI and measures of nature connectedness, nature contact, climate change importance, and mental wellbeing were analyzed to evaluate concurrent validity, convergent validity, and the utility of the NCI. Utility was further assessed by testing the NCI's ability to detect socio-demographic differences using one-way ANOVA. Consistent with the original English scale, the Dutch version of the NCI loaded onto a single factor and demonstrated high internal consistency (α = 0.89). Strong correlations with another measure of nature connectedness, moderate correlations with nature contact and climate change importance, and weak correlations with mental wellbeing outcomes were found. Additionally, NCI scores differed across subgroups defined by gender, education level, relationship status, and student status. The findings suggest that the Dutch NCI is reliable and valid instrument for measuring nature connectedness in Dutch speaking populations.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48439,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Psychology","volume":"106 ","pages":"Article 102727"},"PeriodicalIF":7.0,"publicationDate":"2025-08-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144830004","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}
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