The Limits to Growth and the Limits of Psychology

Stern, P. C. (1978). The limits to growth and the limits of psychology. American Psychologist, 33, 7, 701-703.

Discusses the underlying assumptions of psychological experiments designed to increase pro-environmental behavior that were presented at the 1977 American Psychological Association meeting. The emergence of an environmental action psychology is advocated with a theoretical base appropriate to the complexity of social-environmental change.

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