PSY1001 SEMESTER 2 - WEEK 7 Flashcards
define environmental psychology
discipline that study interplay between individuals and built or natural environment, including influence of environment on human experience/behaviour/wellbeing, and influence of individuals on environment via understanding, promoting sustainable behaviour
name 2 distinct types of pro environmental behaviour
goal-directed behaviour: consciously seek to minimize negative impact of one’s actions, explicit goal to benefit environment
beneficial behaviour: harms environment as little as possible, but not necessarily motivated by environmental goals
define carbon footprint
total amount of greenhouse gases that are generated by our actions (CO2e)
explain self-report measures of environmental behaviour
ask frequency and intensity of engaging in behaivour
measure intention and willigness to engage
evaluate self-report measures for environmental behaviour
quick, easy, recruit large numbers
social desirability bias, not necessarily consciously aware (habitual behaviours), intention-behaviour gap
explain behavioural tasks measure of environmental behaviour
not using hypothetical situations but mimics actual beh
cost- how much they will donate to environ charity
effort- screen lists of numbers, for every complete page donation to env charity
time- use navigation system to choose travel route, association with long wait but short emission and vis versa
evaluate behavioural tasks measure for environmental behaviour
no SDB
lack ecological validity, work out study aim
explain observation measures for environmental behaviour
field setting- observe littering, travel modes, quantity of eco-friendly products bought
lab setting- asses if turns off light, dispose materials in right bin, award ppts for right disposals
evaluate observation measures for environmental behaviour
high ecological validity
ethics, no insight into why people does behaviour
explain indirect measures of environmental behaviour
indirectly measure people’s engagement in environmental behaviour via assess behavioural outcome eg; measure energy use via meter reading
evaluate indirect measures of environmental behaviours
doesn’t measure individual behaviours (household measurements), often still require ppts reporting their measurement, time intensive
dual process theory - what 2 systems is pro environmental behaviour driven by
system 1- fast, automatic, unconsc, affect driven (habit, emotion, impulse). habitually turning off appliances
system 2- slow, deliberate, reason-based, conscious (knowledge, attitude, belief)
what is knowledge- deficit assumption
people lack knowledge of pro-environmental issues, and therefore need education to explain why, when and how to act
what kinds of different intervention are used to increase pro-environmental behaviour
improving knowledge, awareness, incentives, nudges, social influences
outline how disgust impacts our perceptions
behavioural immune system- psychological mechanism enabling detecting presence of parasites, pathogens in environment, prompting avoidance of contact
can be over conservative (avoiding likely safe item)
how can feelings of disgust stop us living sustainabily (research- willigness to pay task for sustiainable alt)
willingness to pay tasks for wonky veg, insect food, drink/medicine with reclaimed waste
found greater disgust sensitivity predicted lower level of willing
how can we overcome feelings of disgust (research - tomatoes with reused water)
either treated wastewater/recycled water and found willingness to use higher for recycled, showing impact of language and framing
explain impact of sadness evoking, non emotional videos on pledging money to solve climate change
more donation for emotional>non emotive, but no difference between 2 affective videos
greater donation if immediately donate
if commit to donate immediately after, donate a similar amount
explain how guilt could drive pro environmental behaviour
emotion manipulation of coffee with ethical/non but ethical costs 20% more, another scenario inducing feelings of guilt or pride
guilt initiates greater purchases, and greater perceived customer effectiveness, feeling of having responsibilities
how can too much guilt not work when enducing pro-environmental behaviour
effective in encouraging sustainability when prompt customer to subtly consider own self-standard of behaviour than when exposed to explicit guilt appeal
creating too negative intensive emotional state wont work
define experienced emotion
extent to which engagement in a behaivour actually makes us feel good/bad
define anticipated emotion
expectation that engaging in particular behaivours will make us experience pos/neg emotion
how can emotional motive work to predict pro-environmental behaviour
anticipated emotion predicts, and can outweigh instrumental consequences of pro-environmental behaviour as anticipate pos emotion when is a stronger predictor of intention than instrumental gains (save money etc)
briefly outline hedonic view in motivating pro environmental behaviours
root in behaviour being pleasurable/non experience
some pro-environmental behaviour inherently pleas (organic food taste better)
but also seen less pleasurable (cold shower)
outline eudaimonic view of motivating pro environmental behaviour
pos/neg emotion related to emotional behaviour has root in morality, meaningful experience
feel meaningful as contributes to greater good, better they expect to feel, actually feel when engage in behaviour
explain warm glow research
ppts complete carbon footprint calculation, told carbon footprint 49% higher/lower than others, and those told more pro-environmental perceive temp in room as more hot
