A cognitive dissonance interpretation of consistencies and inconsistencies in environmentally responsible behavior

By John Th⊘gersen. 2004

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Subfields: Building and Construction, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Marketing

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Green identity, green living? The role of pro-environmental self-identity in determining consistency across diverse pro-environmental behaviours (2010, background): “There is evidence that cognitive dissonance can produce more pro-environmental behaviour particularly amongst people who are trying to be green, but fall short (Thøgersen, 2004).”
Exploring the Social Dynamics of Proenvironmental Behavior Change (2009, background): “Generalized attitudes are not especially important predictors of environmentally responsible action (Schultz et al. 1995; Bamberg 2003; Poortinga et al. 2004; Thøgersen 2004).”
Self-Efficacy and Intrinsic Motivation Guiding Environmental Behavior (2011, background): “Because of these inconsistencies, it is difficult to offer precise predictions of behavior (Thögersen, 2004).”
Declining public concern about climate change: Can we blame the great recession? § (2012, background): “A major factor influencing this pattern is likely to be dissonance reduction (Festinger, 1957; Thogersen, 2004).”
Normative Influences on Adolescents’ Self-Reported Pro-Environmental Behaviors: The Role of Parents and Friends (2019, background): “The need for consistency has also been described in the environmental domain (Thøgersen, 2004) although it has rarely been considered (for exceptions, see Vesely & Klöckner, 2017).”
Green Consumerism: Moral Motivations to a Sustainable Future (2015, background): “From a psychological perspective, recent evidence suggests that relatively low-cost green behaviors such as buying green products might act as a gateway to more significant and more committal pro-environmental behavior, such as habitual recycling or expressing support for alternative energy sources ”
A comparative study of relative roles and sequences of cognitive and affective attitudes on tourists’ pro-environmental behavioral intention (2020, background): “PEBs differ in terms of the required investment of resources (time, money, and energy) or physical actions (Coelho et al., 2017; Thøgersen, 2004) and could be termed as low-effort and high-effort.”
Simple and Painless? The Limitations of Spillover in Environmental Campaigning (2009, background): “Studies have found that correlations between pairs of pro-environmental behaviour increase with the similarity (Bratt 1999) or with the perceived similarity (Thøgersen 2004) of the”
Extending theory of planned behavior in household waste sorting in China: the moderating effect of knowledge, personal involvement, and moral responsibility (2020, background): “And Thøgersen (2004) suggested that the complexity and inconsistency of environmental responsibility behavior are based on cognitive dissonance theory.”
Feel good, stay green: Positive affect promotes pro-environmental behaviors and mitigates compensatory “mental bookkeeping” effects (2018, neutral): “The potential role of similarity on behavioral spillovers has been examined by Bratt (1999) as well as by Thøgersen (2004).”
Positive and negative spillover of pro-environmental behavior: An integrative review and theoretical framework (2014, background): “perceptions of the similarity between PEBs (Thøgersen, 2004) and behavioral difficulty (Fujii, 2006) in influencing decisions to”
Preference for green packaging in consumer product choices – Do consumers care? (2008, background): “Instead, arguments tend to support the view that correlations between behaviours in different domains are small, nonexistent or even negative (Thøgersen and Ölander, 2003; Thøgersen, 2004).”
Does Green Consumerism Increase the Acceptance of Wind Power (2012, background): “…more, perhaps bigger and more difficult thing, including goal theory (Dhar and Simonson, 1999; Glasman and Albarracı´n, 2006; Knussen et al., 2004), self-perception theory (Bem, 1972), cognitive dissonance theory (Festinger, 1957; Thøgersen, 2004), and various learning theories (Nigg et al., 1999).”
Strategies for Promoting Proenvironmental Behavior (2014, background): “However, Thogersen (2004) proposes that dissonance pressures will be most noticeable on simple behaviors, and not on more difficult behaviors.”
Why Might Organic Labels Fail to Influence Consumer Choices? Marginal Labelling and Brand Equity Effects (2012, background): “Yet current consumption lifestyles remain largely unsustainable, and progress toward sustainable consumption has been slow (Thøgersen 2004).”