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

{"title":"Eco-friendly labeling biases judgments of environmental impact","authors":"María M. Moreno-Fernández ,&nbsp;Fernando Blanco ,&nbsp;Helena Matute","doi":"10.1016/j.jenvp.2025.102715","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jenvp.2025.102715","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Recent research has identified some psychological barriers that contribute to human inaction on climate change. In the current study, we explore how people perceive the environmental impact of eco-labelled products. We developed a new computerized footprint illusion task based on the trial-by-trial causal learning task. Participants were presented with monthly records of a community household carbon footprint. Thus, this task differs from previous ones in that it allows learning from data. Participants tended to judge the environmental impact of new buildings to be weaker when they were labelled as “green” than when they were no labelled, indicating an effect of eco-labelling. This biased perception occurred even when participants were exposed to information that should assist them in making accurate and unbiased judgments, which indicates that the expectations induced by the labels affected how participants interpreted the data. Implications for the design of strategies aimed at promoting better understanding of the environmental impact of human choices and at minimizing environmental harm are discussed.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48439,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Psychology","volume":"106 ","pages":"Article 102715"},"PeriodicalIF":7.0,"publicationDate":"2025-07-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144863671","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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

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

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

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

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

{"title":"Do (not) enter? Objective visual features of indoor scenes predict approach-avoidance responses and core affect","authors":"Fatih Celalettin Deniz,&nbsp;Kynthia Chamilothori,&nbsp;Sanne Schoenmakers,&nbsp;Yvonne A.W. de Kort","doi":"10.1016/j.jenvp.2025.102686","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jenvp.2025.102686","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Environmental psychology theories on perception and preference have come a long way to predict emotional and behavioral responses to environmental scenes, yet the gap between objective scene characteristics and human experience remains. Most existing studies relied on subjective qualifications of perceptual attributes, or examined the influence of few objective visual features at a time, capturing only a small part of the complexity of real world scenes. The novelty of this study lies in drawing from visual perception and advancements in computer vision to objectively quantify a large set of visual features from low-, mid-, and high-level vision on 360 photographs depicting everyday indoor environments and examine both the individual and combined effects of these visual levels on affective and approach-avoidance responses. These features were used in bootstrapped stepwise regressions to predict subjective responses of approach-avoidance, valence, and tense and energetic arousal, collected from 60 participants in a controlled environment. Results show that low-, mid-, and high-level visual features accounted for a substantial amount of variance in all outcome measures, jointly as well as per separate level. Subsequent variance partitioning analyses showed that explanatory power was shared between visual features from different levels with a relationship that depended on the target variable. Certain visual features, such as the number of edges, degree of enclosure, and presence of plants confirmed relationships proposed by key theories of environmental preference, while others, such as mean brightness, emerge as important predictors despite not being discussed by the theories. This work demonstrates the capabilities of objectively quantifying features from all levels of visual perception in environmental preference research, and advances our understanding of the relationship between visual features and emotional responses to indoor environments, highlighting the need for more detailed theories in this domain.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48439,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Psychology","volume":"106 ","pages":"Article 102686"},"PeriodicalIF":7.0,"publicationDate":"2025-07-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144890074","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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

{"title":"Visions of Tomorrow: Emotional drivers of climate change mitigation and adaptation intentions","authors":"Lucia Bosone ,&nbsp;Téophile Rasse ,&nbsp;Octavia Ionescu ,&nbsp;Marie Chevrier ,&nbsp;Julie Collange","doi":"10.1016/j.jenvp.2025.102700","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jenvp.2025.102700","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This research explores the effects of exposure to utopian vs. dystopian vs. neutral visions of the future (with regards to environmental sustainability or unsustainability) on individuals’ intentions to mitigate and to adapt to climate change, through emotional arousal. In two pre-registered experimental studies, participants were randomly assigned to read about a utopian, dystopian, or neutral vision of future society. In Study 1 (<em>N</em> = 303), behavioural intentions, emotional responses to the scenario (fear, anger, sadness, hope and happiness), the ability to imagine a positive future, and beliefs about sustainable futures were assessed. Results indicated no direct effects of the visions on behavioural intentions, future imagination, or beliefs. However, exposure to a utopian (vs. neutral) and a dystopian (vs. neutral) vision indirectly affect both mitigation and adaptation intentions through feelings of hope (increased and decreased, respectively). Study 2 (<em>N</em> = 401) partially replicated the findings of Study 1. As expected, exposure to a utopian and a dystopian vision indirectly affect mitigation intentions through feelings of hope (increased and decreased, respectively). Adaptation intentions, however, were predicted by happiness rather than hope. These findings highlight the role of positive emotions in promoting pro-environmental intentions and suggest that positive emotions can drive climate actions. While negative emotions like fear, sadness and anger were correlated with intentions, they did not predict behaviours in path analysis. This research underscores the potential of using emotionally engaging future visions to foster sustainable behaviours.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48439,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Psychology","volume":"106 ","pages":"Article 102700"},"PeriodicalIF":7.0,"publicationDate":"2025-07-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144724259","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}