Revisiting environmental groups and members’ behaviour: budget, size and (im)pure altruism

Asproudis, Elias

doi:10.1007/s10018-011-0009-z

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“…We propose and show that the cultural differences between individualists and collectivists manifest in the notion of altruism. Specifically, we suggest that collectivists display a more "pure" form of altruism-a term introduced by Sisson (1910) to reflect that such altruism emphasizes the benefit to others; by contrast, individualists display a more "impure" form of altruism (Andreoni, 1989(Andreoni, , 1990Asproudis, 2011), reflecting a greater focus on benefiting the helper (see also Hartmann et al, 2017). These distinct notions of altruism convey different focal motivations for altruist behaviors.…”

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Help others—be happy? The effect of altruistic behavior on happiness across cultures

Weiss-Sidi

Riemer

2023

Front. Psychol.

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Research has established that altruistic behavior increases happiness. We examined this phenomenon across cultures, differentiating between individualistic and collectivist cultures. We propose that cultural variations in the notion of altruism lead to different effects of helping on the helper’s happiness. For individualists, altruism is linked to self-interest (“impure” altruism), and helping others results in increased happiness for the helper. For collectivists, altruism is focused on the recipient (“pure” altruism), and helping others is less likely to enhance the helper’s happiness. Four studies support our predictions. Study 1 measured the dispositions toward altruism among people with various cultural orientations. Consistent with our predictions, the findings showed that individualism (collectivism) was positively associated with tendencies reflecting more “impure” (“pure”) altruism. Two experimental studies then examined the moderating role of cultural orientation on the effect of spending money on oneself versus others (Study 2) or of doing a kind action (making tea for oneself versus others; Study 3). Both experimental studies demonstrated that altruistic behavior had a positive effect on happiness for individualists but not for collectivists. Finally, Study 4, which utilized data from the World Values Survey to examine the altruism–happiness link in various countries, displayed a stronger link between altruistic behavior and happiness in individualistic (vs. collectivist) cultures. Altogether, this research sheds light on cultural differences in the display of altruism, revealing different motivations for and consequences of altruistic behaviors.

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Help others—be happy? The effect of altruistic behavior on happiness across cultures

Weiss-Sidi

Riemer

2023

Front. Psychol.

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“…While there might be economic interests in joining environmental groups to effect change, or altruistic reasons (Asproudis, 2011), often individuals are influenced by normative theories of various kinds. While there might be economic interests in joining environmental groups to effect change, or altruistic reasons (Asproudis, 2011), often individuals are influenced by normative theories of various kinds.…”

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“…Why do people join environmental groups? While there might be economic interests in joining environmental groups to effect change, or altruistic reasons (Asproudis, 2011), often individuals are influenced by normative theories of various kinds. These norms can be ideological, religious or philosophical and characterize what an environmentally conscious world would be, and how best to achieve it.…”

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Do environmental incidents affect state‐level environmental building policy?

Bose

Brower

2018

Env Pol Gov

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This article explores the impact of environmental incidents or focusing events on state-level "green" building policy-making in the United States. Environmental policy researchers have identified several factors and their impact on states' ability and willingness to formulate green policies.A recent study by Bose and Pandey shows that state-level environmental incidents are important in determining environmental policy linked to climate and energy issues. We test for the impact of environmental incidents and its interaction with the strength of environmental organizations on the formulation of green policies at the state level that are tied to green building policy. Empirical results from the longitudinal data indicate that the states that witness environmental incidents in the current period are less likely to formulate environmental policies during that period. Further, changes in environmental membership are negatively associated with green building policy. We also find that environmental organizations do not root their advocacy programs on the previous period's environmental incident(s). This indicates that environmental focusing events do not affect state-level green building policy. Our results partly agree and partly differ from Bose and Pandey's work on climate and energy issues. These results contribute to our understanding of the critical determinants of environmental policy-making. KEYWORDS environmental incidents, focusing events, low salience, multiple correspondence analysis, panel data, state-level building policy

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“…This paper explains the method used by several environmental groups to move past the usual approaches of trying to influence environmental policy through lobbying (for lobby and other targets of environmental groups, see [4]). Instead, environmental groups are utilising the markets for tradable emissions allowances to influence the total amount of pollution allowed, and to press the firms to adopt or invest in less-polluting technology.…”

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How the ENGOs Can Fight the Industrial/Business Lobby with Their Tools from Their Own Field? ENGOs Participation in Emissions Trading Market

Asproudis

Weyman‐Jones

2020

Sustainability

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In this article, we explain how several environmental groups are attempting to influence environmental policy by changing the total amount of pollution allowed within the tradable emissions market. We highlight the case where environmental groups may participate in strategic behaviour to resemble co-operative coalition behaviour. We present an interesting way that environmental groups can encourage their goal of reducing pollution, contrary to the industrial/business groups’ desires. This is a major concern in our world, and such a new approach could be adopted more broadly.

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Revisiting environmental groups and members’ behaviour: budget, size and (im)pure altruism

Abstract: Environmental groups, Motivations, Size, Budget, Impure altruism, D64, D7, H41, L31,

Cited by 9 publications

References 77 publications

Help others—be happy? The effect of altruistic behavior on happiness across cultures

Help others—be happy? The effect of altruistic behavior on happiness across cultures

Do environmental incidents affect state‐level environmental building policy?

How the ENGOs Can Fight the Industrial/Business Lobby with Their Tools from Their Own Field? ENGOs Participation in Emissions Trading Market

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