INSTITUT FÜR PSYCHOLOGIE

In einem Interview mit der Volksstimme Magdeburg erklärt Prof. Kaiser die Gründe, die zu Unfallflucht führen. Hier geht es zum Interview.

Available free of charge at: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2023.101997

Kaiser, F. G., Gerdes, R. & König, F. (2023). Supporting and expressing support for environmental policies. Journal of Environmental Psycholo­gy, 87, 101997.

Abstract:

People engage in all kinds of behaviors because they aim to protect the environment. Among other actions, such behaviors involve supporting and expressing support for environmental policies. In this article, we investigated two forces that control people's environmental policy support: their commitment to protecting the environment (conceptually speaking, people's environmental attitudes) and the corollaries of a policy (i.e., policy-specific costs) that need to be offset by an individual's environmental attitude. We surveyed two convenience samples (N₁ = 248; N₂ = 176) on their support for a whole array of different environmental policies that came with various costly corollaries and, more specifically, for a range of CO₂ taxes. We found that verbal expressions of support for environmental policies reflect people's environmental attitudes, and we subsequently corroborated this finding in a preregistered replication (N = 450). Fittingly, we also found that people who express support for higher CO₂ taxes hold progressively stronger environmental attitudes.

Highlights:

-Citizens' support for effective environmental policies is crucial in democracies.

-Expressing support for a policy is behavior aimed at protecting the environment.

-Environmental policy support is controlled by a person's environmental attitude.

-Support is also controlled by the costs that accompany a specific policy.

-Only a populace with strong environmental attitudes supports effective policies.

Unsere neuesten Forschungsergebnisse im IDiNA-Projekt zeigen, dass Menschen die Kontrolle über ihren Stromverbrauch abgeben, um die Umwelt zu schützen. Juliane Bücker stellt die Details auf ihrem Poster bei der Sustainability Preconference der 2023 Annual Convention of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology vor. Das komplette Poster ist hier verfügbar: https://osf.io/wak27!

Prof. Dr. Florian G. Kaiser reflektierte in seinem Festvortrag auf der 26. Hauptversammlung des ARCD (Auto- und Reiseclub Deutschland e. V.) inwiefern Nachhaltigkeit eine Frage der Technologie oder eher eine Frage der Haltung ist (siehe auch unsere News-Meldung vom 28.10.2022). 

Im ARCD Clubmagazin sind nun in einem kurzen Artikel zum Vortrag die wichtigsten Statements zusammengefasst nachlesbar.

In einer kurzen Fragen&Antwort-Runde mit Maria Bolevich von TheDeepness.org beantwortet Prof. Kaiser zentrale Rückfragen zu seinem Paper "The supportive role of environmental attitude for learning about environmental issues". Hier geht es zur Q&A-Session (englisch).