If They Are All Green, I Take Responsibility for My Eco-Unfriendly Behaviors: Effects of Injunctive Norm on Sense of Responsibility Following Cognitive Dissonance

Voisin, Dimitri; Gosling, Patrick; Amoura, Camille; Miraucourt, Delphine; Weber, Tiphanie; Dappe, Quentin

doi:10.5334/irsp.113

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“…This knowledge is relevant to practitioners, policy makers, and government officials since it is the key to effective implementation of strategies related to sustainable consumption. Imposing pro-environmental practices can increase customer awareness of their environmental responsibility, particularly young consumers [64]. Creating a variety of environmental awareness campaigns and recycling facilities can promote a high percentage of clothing recycling among the young adults in the community.…”

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Sustainable Fashion Consumption: Advocating Philanthropic and Economic Motives in Clothing Disposal Behaviour

2022

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The fast fashion market is becoming popular, escalating and aggravating the throwaway culture phenomenon. Thus, it is valuable to understand the factors that influence sustainable fashion consumption and the clothing disposal pattern among young consumers in developing countries like Malaysia. Data were obtained from the online survey of 324 young adults aged 18 to 35 and were analysed using the Partial Least Square using SmartPLS (v.3.3.3i). The findings indicate that personal norms, social norms and environmental awareness were the key influencing factors of sustainable fashion consumption. Consequently, sustainable fashion consumption exhibited a positive and significant relationship towards philanthropic and economic reasons for clothing disposal behaviour. The insights from this study will assist practitioners, green manufacturers, business owners and policy makers in giving a clearer picture of what motivates sustainable fashion consumption and the clothing disposal behaviour of today’s young adults.

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Sustainable Fashion Consumption: Advocating Philanthropic and Economic Motives in Clothing Disposal Behaviour

2022

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“…In his seminal article addressing the psychological barriers to climate change adaptation, Gifford (2011) highlights how many people may be in a state of dissonance with respect to climate change due to their simultaneous deep reliance on fossil fuels to navigate everyday modern life (e.g., gasoline for transportation) alongside a growing recognition of the negative reality of climate change. This conflict and subsequent reappraisals to minimize the threat of climate change has been linked to feelings of apathy (Lertzman, 2017), inaction (Gifford, 2011), and denial (Voisin et al, 2020; Wullenkord & Reese, 2021). In the Global North, the impacts of climate change are often perceived as distant from everyday life (Norgaard, 2011), making reappraisal not only a viable option, but an option of seemingly little consequence.…”

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COVID‐19 and climate change: The social‐psychological roots of conflict and conflict interventions during global crises

Burrows

Abellera

Markowitz

2023

WIREs Climate Change

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The current study reviews key social psychological mechanisms related to conflict and conflict resolution that manifest within both the coronavirus pandemic and climate change crises. The uncertainty, scale, and nature of both global crises generate various forms of individual‐ and group‐level conflicts that, mediated by psychological and cultural phenomena, impede beneficial action and sustainable adaptation. Specifically, we highlight five social psychological mechanisms (i.e., cognitive dissonance, responsibility diffusion, compassion fatigue, dehumanization, and competitive beliefs) known to interact with, produce, and amplify intrapersonal, interpersonal, and/or intergroup conflicts. We draw attention to how these mechanisms have been activated by the pandemic in ways that share important similarities with climate change and present evidence‐informed approaches to combating their contribution to conflict (i.e., motivating behavior change, implementing accountability mechanisms, creating collective action opportunities, fostering intergroup contact, and promoting perspective‐taking). By engaging social psychological research to better understand both the roots of conflict as well as outline potential individual, community, and societal responses that can help alleviate conflict during these global crises, we can increase our ability to successfully navigate and in some cases avoid future conflicts caused by climate change.This article is categorized under: Perceptions, Behavior, and Communication of Climate Change > Behavior Change and Responses

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Hotel employees’ intention not to waste food: The role of environmental concern

Elkhwesky,

Castañeda-García,

El Manzani

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Curr Psychol

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Drawing on the theory of planned behavior, the current research examined the effect of moral norms and injunctive norms on hotel employees’ intention not to waste food. Besides, the moderating role of environmental concern was also investigated. Data were collected from 586 food and beverage employees in Egyptian hotels, by quantile regression, which allows us to obtain results for the median individual and for those who are wasteful (below the median). The results show that developing moral and injunctive norms is helpful in reducing food expenditure in the median employee (q = 0.5). However, if the focus is on the most wasteful employee (q < 0.3), the way to reverse this behavior is to develop norms more related to what an employee should or should not do in relation to food waste (injunctive norms) and less related to the feeling of guilt (moral norms). In addition, general environmental concern increases the positive effect of injunctive norms on the intention not to waste food for the wasteful employees, which was not the case for the median employee. These results help to orient information and training policies for employees to reduce food waste in the hotel industry and, from a theoretical point of view, a novel analysis is carried out by comparing employees with different intentions to behave responsibly.

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If They Are All Green, I Take Responsibility for My Eco-Unfriendly Behaviors: Effects of Injunctive Norm on Sense of Responsibility Following Cognitive Dissonance

Cited by 5 publications

References 43 publications

Sustainable Fashion Consumption: Advocating Philanthropic and Economic Motives in Clothing Disposal Behaviour

Sustainable Fashion Consumption: Advocating Philanthropic and Economic Motives in Clothing Disposal Behaviour

COVID‐19 and climate change: The social‐psychological roots of conflict and conflict interventions during global crises

Hotel employees’ intention not to waste food: The role of environmental concern

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