Existential threat and compliance with pro-environmental norms

By Immo Fritsche, E. Jonas, D. Kayser, Nicolas Koranyi. 2010

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Terror Management Theory and Research: How the Desire for Death Transcendence Drives Our Strivings for Meaning and Significance (2014, background): “motivate pro-environmental attitudes and behaviors (Fritsche et al., 2010; Vess and Arndt, 2008).”
The Malicious Effects of Existential Threat on Motivation to Protect the Natural Environment and the Role of Environmental Identity as a Moderator (2012, background): “Furthermore, the present research helps to understand divergent results in research on the effects death awareness has on environmental behavior (Fritsche et al., 2010; Vess & Arndt, 2008) by throwing light on the motivational processes involved: Proenvironmental action should be reduced under…”
The Psychology of Environmental Decisions (2014, background): “For example, people like proenvironmental products more and contribute more to an environmental social dilemma when pro-environmental (rather than anti-environmental) norms are made salient and threat is present (121).”