DOI: 10.3390/su12031247
论文题名: Policy acceptance of low-consumption governance approaches: The effect of social norms and hypocrisy
作者: Thorman D. ; Whitmarsh L. ; Demski C.
刊名: Sustainability (Switzerland)
ISSN: 20711050
出版年: 2020
卷: 12, 期: 3 语种: 英语
英文关键词: Consumption
; Governance
; Hypocrisy
; Neoliberalism
; Policy acceptance
; Pro-environmental behaviour
; Psychology
; Regulation
; Social norms
英文摘要: Tackling over-consumption of resources and associated emissions at the lifestyle level will be crucial to climate change mitigation. Understanding the public acceptability of policy aimed at behaviour change in this domain will help to focus strategy towards effective and targeted solutions. Across two studies (n = 259, 300) we consider how policy approaches at different levels of governance (individual, community, and national) might be influenced by the inducement of hypocrisy and the activation of social norms. We also examine the influence of these experimental manipulations upon behavioural intention to reduce consumption (e.g., repair not replace, avoiding luxuries). Dynamic social norm framing was unsuccessful in producing an effect on policy acceptance or intentions to reduce consumption. Information provision about the impact of individual consumption on global climate change increased support for radical policies at the national level (banning environmentally harmful consumption practices) and the community level (working fewer hours, sharing material products, collaborative food cultivation), yet the inducement of hypocrisy had no additional effect. This is in contrast to individual-level behavioural intentions, where the inducement of hypocrisy decreased intentions to engage in high-consumption behaviour. This paper concludes with implications for low-consumption governance. © 2020 by the authors. Citation statistics:
资源类型: 期刊论文
标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/159788
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作者单位: School of Psychology, Cardiff University, Tower Building, Cardiff, CF10 3AS, United Kingdom
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Thorman D.,Whitmarsh L.,Demski C.. Policy acceptance of low-consumption governance approaches: The effect of social norms and hypocrisy[J]. Sustainability (Switzerland),2020-01-01,12(3)