Cultural Theory and Individual Perceptions of Environmental Risks

By L. Steg, I. Sievers. 2000

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Subfields: Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Sociology and Political Science

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Culture and Identity-Protective Cognition: Explaining the White Male Effect in Risk Perception (2007, background): “…environmental and technological hazards do vary in patterns that conform to these categories (Dake 1991; Ellis & Thompson 1997; Gyawali 1999; Jenkins-Smith & Smith 1994; Jenkins-Smith 2001; Marris et al. 1998; Peters & Slovic 1996; Steg & Sievers 2000; Poortinga et al. 2002; Wildavsky & Dake 1990).”
Global Warming in the American Mind: The Roles of Affect, Imagery, and Worldviews in Risk Perception, Policy Preferences and Behavior (2003, methodology): “In general, "egalitarianism is positively correlated with environmentalism, whereas individualism is negatively correlated" (Steg & Sievers 2000:252).”
Psychological Barriers to Energy Conservation Behavior: The Role of Worldviews and Climate Change Risk Perception (2018, background): “Cultural theory has been used to explain global warming opinions and risk perception, environmental beliefs, and policy preferences (Jones, 2011; Leiserowitz, 2006; Poortinga, Steg, & Vlek, 2002; Steg & Sievers, 2000).”
Attribution matters: Revisiting the link between extreme weather experience and climate change mitigation responses (2019, unknown): “According to the cultural theory of risk, egalitarians view nature as fragile and ephemeral, whereas, individualists perceive nature to be resilient (Steg and Sievers, 2000; Thompson, 2003).”
Environmental Risk Concern and Preferences for Energy-Saving Measures (2002, background): “L. Steg and Sievers (2000) also reported that only a small number of Dutch respondents subscribed to the nature benign view.”
Climate Change Risk Perception and Policy Preferences: The Role of Affect, Imagery, and Values (2006, background): “They often promote participatory, democratic, and consensus-based decision-making that includes all affected parties as equals (Dake and Wildavsky, 1990; Dake, 1991, 1992; Milton, 1996; Pendergraft, 1998; Slovic and Peters, 1998; O'Riordan and Jordan, 1999; Steg and Sievers, 2000).”
Temporal pessimism and spatial optimism in environmental assessments: An 18-nation study (2009, background): “Please cite this article in press as: Gifford, R., et al., Temporal pessimism and spatial optimism in environmental assessments: An 18-nation study, Journal of Environmental Psychology (2008), doi:10.1016/j.jenvp.2008.06.001 environmental policies ( Steg & Sievers, 2000 ) and whether or not people c”
General Beliefs and the Theory of Planned Behavior: The Role of Environmental Concerns in the TPB (2007, background): “Another line of research focuses on relationships between environmental behavior (e.g., travel mode choice) and general environmental beliefs (e.g., Gärling, Fujii, Gärling, & Jakobsson, 2003; Kaiser, Wölfing, & Fuhrer, 1999; Nordlund & Garvill, 2002; Schultz & Zelezny, 1998; Steg & Sievers, 2000).”
Psychological and Situational Influences on Commuter-Transport-Mode Choice (2005, background): “Steg and Sievers (2000) reported that individuals who believed they could have an effect on the environment by reducing their car use used other modes of transport more often than those who believed such efforts are futile.”