Self-interest and pro-environmental behaviour

By Laurel Evans, G. Maio, Adam Corner, Carl J. Hodgetts, S. Ahmed, Ulrike Hahn. 2013

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Subfields: Applied Psychology, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Marketing

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Spillover effects in environmental behaviors, across time and context: a review and research agenda (2017, background): “For example, Evans et al. (2013) showed that more people recycled after reading self-transcendent reasons to car-sharing, compared to participants who about car-sharing in financial term, and a control group.”
Saving electricity – For the money or the environment? Risks of limiting pro-environmental spillover when using monetary framing (2015, background): “As a result, significantly more recycling behaviour was observed in the environmental priming condition, whereas the financial priming condition did not induce positive spillover effects (Evans et al., 2013).”
Individual differences in values determine the relative persuasiveness of biospheric, economic and combined appeals. (2017, background): “…people on the selfenhancing features of pro-environmental behaviour, economic appeals may demotivate people to engage in other types of environmentally friendly behaviour that are not financially attractive (Evans et al., 2012; Schwartz et al., 2015; Thøgersen & Crompton, 2009; Thøgersen, 2013).”
Don't be satisfied, identify! Strengthening positive spillover by connecting pro-environmental behaviors to an “environmentalist” label (2016, background): “Additionally, pro-environmental behaviors may often be performed for non-environmental reasons such as to save money (e.g., Evans et al., 2013) or to gain status (e.g., Griskevicius, Tybur, & van den Bergh, 2010).”
Environmental psychology matters. (2014, background): “For example, appeals to environmental values are more effective in increasing proenvironmental behavior than are appeals to self-interest (financial) values (Bolderdijk et al. 2013) or even appeals to the combination of environmental and financial values (Evans et al. 2013).”
Home and away: cross-contextual consistency in tourists’ pro-environmental behavior (2020, background): “In this study, contextual consistency of PEBs between home and holiday was evident, indicative of proposed spillovers between contexts (Berger, 1997; De Young, 2000; Evans et al., 2013; Lanzini & Thøgersen, 2014; Maiteny, 2002; Thøgersen & Crompton, 2009; Truelove et al., 2014; Whitmarsh & O’Neill, ”
Green Consumerism: Moral Motivations to a Sustainable Future (2015, background): “In addition, pro-environmental behaviors that are performed for self-transcending reasons rather than selfinterested ones appear to increase other green behavior [48].”
Green Returns to Education: Does Schooling Contribute to Pro-Environmental Behaviours? Evidence from Thailand (2017, background): “environmental behaviour increases the likelihood of performing other pro-environmental behaviours such as recycling is correlated with energy conservation) (Evans et al., 2013).”
Like ripples on a pond: behavioral spillovers and their implications for research and policy (2015, background): “Consider the initial motive to reduce CO2 emissions by cycling or car-sharing to work (Evans et al., 2013).”
Engaging with energy reduction : does a climate change frame have the potential for achieving broader sustainable behaviour? (2014, background): “A similar message encouraging the same behaviour for financial reasons did not increase recycling rates (Evans et al., 2013).”
Psychological science, conservation, and environmental sustainability (2013, background): “It is important to correctly identify the motives that might operate for a given set of people in a specific situation so as to avoid both backlash and negative spillover – a situation in which refraining from one harmful behavior makes people feel more entitled to engage in another (Evans et al. 20”