Control of Human Behavior, Mental Processes, and Consciousness: Essays in Honor of the 60th Birthday of August Flammer
Peter, Ursula; Kaufmann-Hayoz, Ruth. (2000). The concept of control: A key concept in understanding and overcoming
barriers to responsible environmental behavior.
. In Perrig, Walter J. (Ed); Grob, Alexander (Ed). (Ed.). Control of human behavior, mental processes, and consciousness: Essays in honor of the 60th birthday of August Flammer.
. (pp. 307-322). Mahwah, NJ, US: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc., Publishers.
Examines the relevance of different aspects of control, as well as of development and change of control beliefs for environmental behavior. An action problem is defined by identifying a discrepancy between an undesired actual state and a desired goal, with respect to essential preconditions for individual behavior change towards environmentally more responsible behavior. The problem of restricted and shared control and of undifferentiated or inadequate control beliefs in the environmental domain are described in terms of goal, actual state, resources for solutions, transformation potentials, constraints, outcome, side effects, and costs.
