The Moral Roots of Environmental Attitudes

By M. Feinberg, Robb Willer. Psychology Science, 2013

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

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The marketplace of ideology: “Elective affinities” in political psychology and their implications for consumer behavior (2017, neutral): “…the “American way of life” (Feygina, Jost, & Goldsmith, 2010); fulfilling “duties” and “obligations” (Kidwell, Farmer, & Hardesty, 2013); maintaining ecological “purity” (Feinberg & Willer, 2013); and allowing the U.S. to “profit from leading the world in green technology” (Campbell & Kay, 2014).”
Impure or Just Weird? Scenario Sampling Bias Raises Questions About the Foundation of Morality (2015, background): “Conservatives may seem more concerned about impurity when assessed through sex and religion (Graham et al., 2009), but liberals are likely more concerned with nutritional and environmental contamination (Feinberg & Willer, 2013).”
Behavioral Environmental Economics: Promises and Challenges (2014, background): “This topic belongs to the general theme of the moral roots of environmental attitudes (Feinberg and Willer 2013).”
Personal and social factors that influence pro-environmental concern and behaviour: a review. (2014, background): “However, when pro-environmental appeals were reframed in terms of purity, a value that resonates more for conservatives, the difference in environmental attitudes was reduced (Feinberg & Willer, 2012).”
Socio-Structural and Psychological Foundations of Climate Change Beliefs (2015, background): “Recent research has shown that willingness to act can be fostered among individuals who might not be initially prone to act by using particular ideological or moral messages (Bain, Hornsey, Bongiorno, & Jeffries, 2012; Feinberg & Willer, 2013; Feygina, Jost, & Goldsmith, 2010).”
Explaining the Paradox: How Pro-Environmental Behaviour can both Thwart and Foster Well-Being (2013, neutral): “Although this literature suggests that most people think behaving pro-environmentally is the right thing to do, not everybody may agree—as a recent study for instance shows, conservatives usually are less likely to perceive pro-environmental behaviour in terms of moral or good behaviour [88].”
Multilevel Influences on Voluntary Workplace Green Behavior: Individual Differences, Leader Behavior, and Coworker Advocacy (2017, background): “…attitudes within the United States reveal that political liberals and conservatives both respond to messages that link environmental behavior to morality, but the effectiveness of messages grounded in moral reasoning depends on the specific framing of the issues (Feinberg & Willer, 2013).”
Unearthing the “Green” Personality (2016, background): “Recent studies have shown that congruency between environmental appeals and political values can increase pro-environmental behavior (Feinberg & Willer, 2012; Gromet et al., 2013; Kidwell, Farmer, & Hardesty, 2013).”
Personal experience and the ‘psychological distance’ of climate change: An integrative review (2015, background): “Indeed, there are potential benefits of framing climate change to be congruent with the dominant moral concerns of various ideological groups (Feinberg & Willer, 2013; Markowitz & Shariff, 2012).”
The Psychology of Environmental Decisions (2014, background): “In an experimental test of this hypothesis, Feinberg & Willer demonstrated that liberals exhibited more positive pro-environmental attitudes than did conservatives when an oped message was phrased in terms of the harm humans are causing the environment and the need for us to care and protect our wor”