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DOI | 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2019.106434 |
Experimental evidence of an environmental attitude-behavior gap in high-cost situations | |
Farjam, Mike1,2; Nikolaychuk, Olexandr3; Bravo, Giangiacomo1,2 | |
2019-12-01 | |
发表期刊 | ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS |
ISSN | 0921-8009 |
EISSN | 1873-6106 |
出版年 | 2019 |
卷号 | 166 |
文章类型 | Article |
语种 | 英语 |
国家 | Sweden; Germany |
英文摘要 | So far, there has been mixed evidence in the literature regarding the relationship between environmental attitudes and actual 'green' actions, something known as the attitude-behavior gap. This raises the question of when attitudes can actually work as a lever to promote environmental objectives, such as climate change mitigation, and, conversely, when other factors would be more effective. This paper presents an online experiment with real money at stake and real-world consequences designed to test the effect of environmental attitudes on behavior under various conditions. We found that environmental attitudes affected behavior only in low-cost situations. This finding is consistent with the low-cost hypothesis of environmental behavior postulating that concerned individuals will undertake low-cost actions in order to reduce the cognitive dissonance between their attitudes and rational realization of the environmental impact of their behavior but avoid higher-cost actions despite their greater potential as far as environmental protection. This finding has important consequences for the design of more effective climate policies as it puts limits on what can be achieved by raising environmental concern alone. |
英文关键词 | Climate change mitigation Low-cost hypothesis Online experiment Collective-risk social dilemma |
领域 | 资源环境 |
收录类别 | SCI-E ; SSCI |
WOS记录号 | WOS:000488318100006 |
WOS关键词 | CLIMATE-CHANGE ; COGNITIVE-DISSONANCE ; ENERGY ; SUPPORT ; GREEN ; RISK ; CONSCIOUSNESS ; COMMUNICATION ; MITIGATION ; HOUSEHOLDS |
WOS类目 | Ecology ; Economics ; Environmental Sciences ; Environmental Studies |
WOS研究方向 | Environmental Sciences & Ecology ; Business & Economics |
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文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.173/C666/handle/2XK7JSWQ/224406 |
专题 | 环境与发展全球科技态势 |
作者单位 | 1.Linnaeus Univ, Dept Social Studies, Vaxjo, Sweden; 2.Linnaeus Univ, Ctr Data Intens Sci & Applicat, Vaxjo, Sweden; 3.Friedrich Schiller Univ, Fac Econ & Business Adm, Jena, Germany |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Farjam, Mike,Nikolaychuk, Olexandr,Bravo, Giangiacomo. Experimental evidence of an environmental attitude-behavior gap in high-cost situations[J]. ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS,2019,166. |
APA | Farjam, Mike,Nikolaychuk, Olexandr,&Bravo, Giangiacomo.(2019).Experimental evidence of an environmental attitude-behavior gap in high-cost situations.ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS,166. |
MLA | Farjam, Mike,et al."Experimental evidence of an environmental attitude-behavior gap in high-cost situations".ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS 166(2019). |
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