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Environmental Attitudes and Behavior: A Pennsylvania Survey

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Scott, D. & Willits, F. K. (1994). Environmental attitudes and behavior: A Pennsylvania survey. Environment and Behavior, 26, 2, 239-260.
A statewide survey of 3,632 Pennsylvanians conducted in 1990 provided data on residents' opinions about ideas contained in the new environmental paradigm (NEP) and behaviors engag…

Environmental Waste: Recycling Attitudes and Correlates

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Larsen, K. S. (1995). Environmental waste: Recycling attitudes and correlates. Journal of Social Psychology, 135, 1, 83-88.
A 5-phase study measured attitudes toward recycling environmental waste among 452 undergraduates. The item pool consisted of 40 positive statements and 41 negative statements. Ass…

Green Movement in a Newly Industrializing Area: A Survey on the Attitudes and Behaviour of the Hong Kong Citizens

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Chan, R. & Yam, E. (1995). Green movement in a newly industrializing area: A survey on the attitudes and behaviour of the Hong Kong citizens. Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology, 5, 4, 273-284.
Tested the relationship between environmental attitudes and behavior of the citizens of Hong Kong using a revised version of M. P. Maloney & M. P. Ward's ecological scale. Variabl…

Environmental Concern and Environmental Behavior in Foley, a Small Town in Minnesota

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Hallin, P. O. (1995). Environmental concern and environmental behavior in Foley, a small town in Minnesota. Environment and Behavior, 27, 4, 558-578.
Examined households' and individuals' environmental behavior (EB) to explore motives for environmental actions and to identify major impediments to changed EB. 39 adults from 10 h…

Commitment, Behavior, and Attitude Change: An Analysis of Voluntary Recycling

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Werner, C. M., Turner, J., Shipman, K., Twitchell, F. S., et al. (1995). Commitment, behavior, and attitude change: An analysis of voluntary recycling. Special Issue: Green psychology. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 15, 3, 197-208.
Describes a project designed to help local agencies select a method of inducing residents to participate in a free curbside recycling program. The project also provided an opportu…

Barriers to Individual Environmental Action: The Influence of Attitudes and Social Experiences

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Wall, G. (1995). Barriers to individual environmental action: The influence of attitudes and social experiences. Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology, 32, 4, 465-489.
Using data from a 1990 random sample of 448 Edmonton residents and applying LISREL techniques, selected perceptual, situation, and structural influences on environmental lifestyle…

The Environment and Mental Health: A Guide for Clinicians

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Lundberg, A. (1998). Risk perception and coping . In Spedden, S. E. (Ed.). The environment and mental health: A guide for clinicians. (pp. 103-114). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Many factors influence perceptions of environmental risk and choices of coping strategies. We make judgments and decisions within a framework that is described by cultural and per…

Social Structural and Social Psychological Bases of Environmental Concern

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Dietz, T., Stern, P. C. & Guagnano, G. A. (1998). Social structural and social psychological bases of environmental concern. Environment and Behavior, 30, 4, 450-471.
Efforts to explain environmental concern as a function of social structure have revealed some weak but reliable associations. Stronger associations have been found between environ…

Social Value Orientations and Decisions to Take Proenvironmental Action

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Cameron, L. D., Brown, P. M. & Chapman, J. G. (1998). Social value orientations and decisions to take proenvironmental action. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 28, 8, 675-697.
Assessed whether social value orientations influence decisions to actively support a proposal for a transportation pollution reduction program. 135 undergraduate students with pro…

Willingness to Pay or Intention to Pay: The Attitude-Behavior Relationship in Contingent Valuation

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Luzar, E. J. & Cosse, K. J. (1998). Willingness to pay or intention to pay: The attitude-behavior relationship in contingent valuation. Journal of Socio-Economics, 27, 3, 427-444.
This study describes a conceptual model of the attitude-behavior relationship involved in the process of contingent valuation in an economic behavior context. Explanatory attitudi…

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