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View article: Climate anxiety - impairment and/or activation? Exploring the roles of mindfulness and emotion regulation
Climate anxiety - impairment and/or activation? Exploring the roles of mindfulness and emotion regulation Open
Climate anxiety is gaining increasing attention but how it is related to both impairment and climate change activism through the use of emotion-focused coping strategies is still poorly understood. We conducted two studies to help understa…
View article: Think Twice—An Intervention Strategy to Reduce Personal Clothing Consumption
Think Twice—An Intervention Strategy to Reduce Personal Clothing Consumption Open
This study reports the effectiveness of a theory-driven Internet based intervention aiming at reducing participants’ ( N = 415) clothing purchases. An information-only intervention and a combination of information, goal setting, goal feedb…
View article: Underestimation of personal carbon footprint inequality in four diverse countries
Underestimation of personal carbon footprint inequality in four diverse countries Open
Extensive research highlights global and within-country inequality in personal carbon footprints. However, the extent to which people are aware of these inequalities remains unclear. Here we use an online survey distributed across four div…
View article: Underestimation of personal carbon footprint inequality in four socio-economically diverse countries
Underestimation of personal carbon footprint inequality in four socio-economically diverse countries Open
Extensive research highlights global and within-country inequality in personal carbon footprints. However, the extent to which people are aware of this inequality remains unclear. This study examined perceptions of within-country carbon fo…
View article: Embodying nature in immersive virtual reality: Are multisensory stimuli vital to affect nature connectedness and pro-environmental behaviour?
Embodying nature in immersive virtual reality: Are multisensory stimuli vital to affect nature connectedness and pro-environmental behaviour? Open
One discussion in the context of education for sustainable development centres on the importance of cognitive as well as affective processes for promoting pro-environmental behaviour. In our study, we investigate how affordances of immersi…
View article: Collapsed oyster populations in large Florida estuaries appear resistant to restoration using traditional cultching methods—Insights from ongoing efforts in multiple systems
Collapsed oyster populations in large Florida estuaries appear resistant to restoration using traditional cultching methods—Insights from ongoing efforts in multiple systems Open
Objective Depressed eastern oyster Crassostrea virginica populations in the northern Gulf of Mexico have been the target of numerous post-Deepwater Horizon restoration projects. These projects primarily have focused on replacing oyster cul…
View article: Mindfulness as a path to fostering time affluence and well‐being
Mindfulness as a path to fostering time affluence and well‐being Open
Given that time pressure is a widespread and straining phenomenon in modern societies, strategies to alleviate it are increasingly required. Employing a quasi‐experimental longitudinal design with an active control group, the present study…
View article: Editorial: The Role of the Individual in the Great Transformation Toward Sustainability
Editorial: The Role of the Individual in the Great Transformation Toward Sustainability Open
EDITORIAL article Front. Psychol., 05 July 2021Sec. Environmental Psychology https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.710897
View article: Sustainability empowerment in the workplace: determinants and effects
Sustainability empowerment in the workplace: determinants and effects Open
There is a dynamic stream of research, which examines why and how employees contribute and respond to corporate social responsibility (CSR). Building on these micro-CSR findings, this article makes a contribution to a better understanding …
View article: Environment-Specific vs. General Knowledge and Their Role in Pro-environmental Behavior
Environment-Specific vs. General Knowledge and Their Role in Pro-environmental Behavior Open
Environmental knowledge has been established as a behavior-distal, but necessary antecedent of pro-environmental behavior. The magnitude of its effect is difficult to estimate due to methodological deficits and variability of measures prop…
View article: Mindfulness Training at School: A Way to Engage Adolescents with Sustainable Consumption?
Mindfulness Training at School: A Way to Engage Adolescents with Sustainable Consumption? Open
A central challenge in research on education for sustainable consumption (ESC) is to develop new approaches to engage adolescents with sustainable consumption (SC) in a way that addresses not only the cognitive but also the socio-emotional…
View article: Mindfully Green and Healthy: An Indirect Path from Mindfulness to Ecological Behavior
Mindfully Green and Healthy: An Indirect Path from Mindfulness to Ecological Behavior Open
This paper examines the nature of the link between mindfulness and ecological behavior. Based on the notion that mindfulness incorporates heightened awareness of bodily sensations, we suggest an indirect path from mindfulness to ecological…
View article: Measuring young consumers’ sustainable consumption behavior: development and validation of the YCSCB scale
Measuring young consumers’ sustainable consumption behavior: development and validation of the YCSCB scale Open
Purpose Promoting sustainable consumption among young consumers has become a key priority on the research agenda in such different fields as education for sustainable development, environmental psychology and consumer policy. Progress in t…
View article: Education for Sustainable Consumption through Mindfulness Training: Development of a Consumption-Specific Intervention
Education for Sustainable Consumption through Mindfulness Training: Development of a Consumption-Specific Intervention Open
Several widespread approaches to Education for Sustainable Consumption (ESC) have emerged from the tradition of consumer information. A major shortcoming of such cognitive-focused approaches is their limited capacity to facilitate reflecti…