The Role of Compensatory Beliefs in Rationalizing Environmentally Detrimental Behaviors

Hope, Aimie; Jones, Christopher R.; Webb, Thomas L.; Watson, Matthew T.; Kaklamanou, Daphne

doi:10.1177/0013916517706730

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“…The current research also adds to research showing that people are not always consistent when it comes to their environmentally friendly behaviors across situations and time (e.g., Hope et al, 2017;Meijers, Noordewier, & Avramova, 2013;Nilsson, Bergquist, & Schultz, 2017;Truelove, Carrico, Weber, Raimi, & Vandenbergh, 2014). That is, on one hand, research shows that one's environmentally friendly behavior in one domain may positively spill over into another domain.…”

Section: Sustained Environmentally Friendly Behaviorsmentioning

confidence: 54%

“…People tend to retrieve and present information in such a way that it helps them to justify their behaviors and see themselves in a positive light. For example, when people feel conflicted about their environmental behaviors, they think of previous environmentally friendly behaviors to make themselves feel better (Hope, Jones, Webb, Watson, & Kaklamanou, 2017). The research on self-servingness may explain why people show vicarious licensing effects; that is, because of the moral behaviors of close others, they may feel licensed to behave in a more morally questionable manner while being able to see these transgressions in a more positive light due to the moral behaviors of close others.…”

Section: Vicarious Licensing But Not Cleansingmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Taking Close Others’ Environmental Behavior Into Account When Striking the Moral Balance? Evidence for Vicarious Licensing, Not for Vicarious Cleansing

Meijers

Noordewier

Verlegh

et al. 2018

Environment and Behavior

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Research shows that people search for balance in their moral (e.g., environmentally friendly) behaviors such that they feel licensed to behave less morally after a previous moral act (licensing) and cleanse previous morally questionable behaviors by subsequently behaving more morally (cleansing). This article investigates whether this balancing may extend to close others, but not to nonclose others, and tests vicarious licensing and cleansing in the environmental domain. Study 1 showed that vicarious licensing effects are more likely when a close other displayed environmentally friendly (vs. neutral) behavior. Study 2 showed that environmental vicarious licensing effects are more likely for close than nonclose others. Studies 3 and 4 suggested that vicarious licensing effects, but not vicarious cleansing effects are more likely for close (vs. nonclose) others. Finally, a meta-analysis

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Section: Sustained Environmentally Friendly Behaviorsmentioning

confidence: 54%

Section: Vicarious Licensing But Not Cleansingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Taking Close Others’ Environmental Behavior Into Account When Striking the Moral Balance? Evidence for Vicarious Licensing, Not for Vicarious Cleansing

Meijers

Noordewier

Verlegh

et al. 2018

Environment and Behavior

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“…Such a stance is congruent with a consumer typology identified as "light greens" [48]; this group may be responding to extrinsic demands to adopt green behaviours. In contrast people who embrace the NEP and reject the DSP may have internalised the need to think and behave in a pro-environmental manner, which fits with a committed environmentalist or "deep green" typology [49][50][51]. Interestingly, a belief in the scientific tradition and a conviction that science and technology can solve environmental problems within current political structures has been suggested to be a tenet of 'environmentalism' in contrast to 'ecologists' who reject science [52].…”

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confidence: 99%

Food Purchasing Decisions and Environmental Ideology: An Exploratory Survey of UK Shoppers

et al. 2019

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Environmentally and ethically conscious food purchasing has traction with British consumers. We examined how broad environmental worldviews related to shoppers’ ratings of the importance of various shopping criteria, including recognition of eco-labels, by surveying 502 shoppers from the city of Sheffield, England. Environmental worldviews were measured using the New Ecological Paradigm (NEP) scale. Responses to the scale split into two dimensions reflecting the scale’s origins: the Dominant Social Paradigm (DSP) and NEP subscales. Subscription to the NEP (ecocentric values) was associated with greater importance ratings of nutrition & health, animal welfare, the environment, Fairtrade, seasonal, local and organic criteria. Subscription to the DSP (anthropocentric values) was associated with greater importance ratings of quality, taste, safety, price and convenience criteria. Notably, subscription to DSP values was the only predictor of eco-label recognition score in a multivariate model. These results indicate that the NEP scale should be considered as two subscales. The results suggest that campaigns to increase consumers’ environmental awareness in order to encourage environmentally driven food shopping are likely to motivate only consumers disenchanted with technological and anthropocentric development.

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“…guilt) towards negative environmental behaviour. This in turn made them feel more positive about their overall environmental impact (Hope et al, 2017). These findings indicate that CBGs are sometimes used to justify a person's environmentally damaging behaviour.…”

Section: Moral Licencing and Compensatory Green Beliefsmentioning

confidence: 77%

“…purchasing organic food as a compensation for flying abroad on holidays (Gregory-Smith, et al, 2013;Kaklamanou et al, 2013). In a qualitative study Hope et al (2017) found that people experienced psychological benefits from holding CGBs as it reduced their negative feeling (e.g. guilt) towards negative environmental behaviour.…”

Section: Moral Licencing and Compensatory Green Beliefsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Spillover of pro-environmental behaviour

Verfuerth¹,

Gregory‐Smith²

2018

Research Handbook on Employee Pro-Environmental Behaviour

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Introduction to the spillover effectThe aim of this chapter is threefold. Firstly, the chapter aims to introduce the term 'spillover' and its different conceptualisation, as well as providing an overview of current research developments. This chapter will overall provide the reader both a broad understanding of the different concepts of the spillover effect alongside its implications for environmentally friendy behaviours in the workplace.Secondly, the chapter aims to give an overview of underlying factors that influence spillover and a discussion of how the spillover effects might influence social marketing campaigns and behavioural change programmes that promote pro-environmental behaviours in organisations. Finally, the chapter aims to assess the methodological approaches used to investigate spillover effects, inclusive of quantitative, qualitative and mixed methods.The psychological concept of spillover could be simply understood as the flow and propulsion of cognitive thoughts, emotions or actions from one area to another. In relation to the latter aspect, Nillson et al. (2016: 1) consider that "the spillover effect proposes that engaging in one behavior affects the probability of engagement or disengaging in a second behaviour". The idea of the spillover effect is not new and has been applied in a number of areas such as knowledge (Acs et al., 2009), emotional conflicts between the workplace and the family (Grunberg et al., 1998; Westman, 2002) and health behaviour (Dolan and Galizzi, 2014). More recently, research in the fields of ethical marketing and environmental psychology has been investigating the spillover phenomenon in the context of sustainable lifestyles; here an increasing interest in understanding secondary behaviour Cognitive dissonance and self-perception theoryAccording to cognitive dissonance theory (Festinger, 1957) people experience discomfort when holding two contrasting cognitions and are motivated to reduce the psychological uneasiness they experience. This can be achieved in a number of ways, including changing attitudes, behaviours, externalising responsibility or reducing the importance of dissonant elements (Gregory-Smith et al., 2013). In the pro-environmental context, this means a person holding pro-environmental views but acting unsustainably will experience a psychological discomfort. This may be reduced by acting in an environmentally-friendly way (Thøgersen, 2004). Therefore, the need for consistency might lead to positive spillover between environmentally-friendly behaviours and between settings. Inconsistent

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The Role of Compensatory Beliefs in Rationalizing Environmentally Detrimental Behaviors

Cited by 52 publications

References 46 publications

Taking Close Others’ Environmental Behavior Into Account When Striking the Moral Balance? Evidence for Vicarious Licensing, Not for Vicarious Cleansing

Taking Close Others’ Environmental Behavior Into Account When Striking the Moral Balance? Evidence for Vicarious Licensing, Not for Vicarious Cleansing

Food Purchasing Decisions and Environmental Ideology: An Exploratory Survey of UK Shoppers

Spillover of pro-environmental behaviour

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