Positive and negative spillover of pro-environmental behavior: An integrative review and theoretical framework

By H. B. Truelove, A. Carrico, Elke U. Weber, K. Raimi, M. Vandenbergh. 2014

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

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Reply to Second comment on ‘The climate mitigation gap: education and government recommendations miss the most effective individual actions’ (2017, background): “Some interventions result in an increase in other pro-environmental behaviours but most examples of positive spillover occur between similar actions, i.e. not from small actions to substantial ones (Truelove et al 2014).”
Nudging out support for a carbon tax (2019, neutral): “Yet, relying on nudges raises the potential for behavioural spillovers that may ultimately undermine their effectiveness 16–18 .”
Saving electricity – For the money or the environment? Risks of limiting pro-environmental spillover when using monetary framing (2015, background): “Additional triggering mechanisms for spillover have been suggested (for an overview see: Thøgersen & Crompton, 2009; Truelove et al., 2014) but not investigated specifically: When pro-environmental behaviour is performed by a person (Thøgersen, 1999) or promoted in terms of environmental reasons,…”
From plastic bottle recycling to policy support: An experimental test of pro-environmental spillover (2016, background): “…difficulty may moderate spillover effects because those initial costless behaviors are not sufficient to signal identity (Gneezy et al., 2012; Truelove et al., 2014; Van der Werff et al., 2014a), and may M AN US CR IP T AC CE PT ED ACCEPTED MANUSCRIPT SPILLOVER 33 actually backfire by…”
Green consumption does not make people cheat: Three attempts to replicate moral licensing effect due to pro-environmental behavior (2019, background): “…engagement in a behavior which people perceive as moral gives them a “license” to subsequently behave immorally (Miller & Effron, 2010), and by the single action bias, where focus on one pro-environmental behavior makes people neglect other options of environmental protection (e.g., Weber, 1997).”
Feel good, stay green: Positive affect promotes pro-environmental behaviors and mitigates compensatory “mental bookkeeping” effects (2018, neutral): “…people to perform a targeted PEB (Abrahamse, Steg, Vlek, & Rothengatter, 2005), it is often not taken into account that performing an initial PEB can increase or decrease the likelihood of showing subsequent PEBs (Thøgersen & € Olander, 2003; Truelove, Carrico, Weber, Raimi, & Vandenbergh, 2014).”
Don't be satisfied, identify! Strengthening positive spillover by connecting pro-environmental behaviors to an “environmentalist” label (2016, background): “Both of these positive and negative spillover mechanisms have been suggested by past researchers (Truelove et al., 2014), and environmental self-identity and guilt are booth well-documented predictors of proenvironmental attitudes and behavior (Bannon et al., 2007; Ferguson & Branscombe, 2010;…”
The Welsh Single-Use Carrier Bag Charge and behavioural spillover (2016, background): “Models explaining behavioural spillover effects often use personal identity and threats to consistency as drivers of behavioural spillover (Truelove et al., 2014).”
Different shades of green? Unpacking habitual and occasional pro-environmental behavior (2015, background): “Other commentators posit that a focus on spillover effects is needed due to the potential of pro-environmental behavior interventions to affect other behaviors (see Truelove et al., 2014; Whitmarsh and O’Neill, 2010 for a critique of one-dimensional interpretation of spill over effects).”