Back to Search
Start Over
Shifting consumer behavior to address climate change
- Source :
- Current Opinion in Psychology. 42:108-113
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2021.
-
Abstract
- We review recent articles on how to change consumer behavior in ways that improve climate impacts, with a special focus on those articles using experimental interventions and measuring actual behaviors. We organize the findings using the SHIFT framework to categorize behavior change strategies based on five psychological factors: Social influence (e.g. communicating that others are changing to plant-based diets doubled meatless lunch orders), Habit (e.g. consumer collaboration to establish new, value-based practices helped to reduce food waste), Individual self (e.g. when women made up half of the group, 51% more trees were conserved), Feelings and cognition (e.g. anticipated guilt reduced choice of unethical attributes in made-to-order products), and Tangibility (e.g. concrete representations of the future of recycled products improved recycling behavior).
- Subjects :
- Male
Value (ethics)
Climate Change
media_common.quotation_subject
Psychological intervention
050105 experimental psychology
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Humans
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
Marketing
General Psychology
Consumer behaviour
Social influence
media_common
05 social sciences
Behavior change
Consumer Behavior
Refuse Disposal
Feeling
Food
Sustainability
Guilt
Female
Habit
Psychology
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 2352250X
- Volume :
- 42
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Current Opinion in Psychology
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....04e20b273b189b192f56b1608504166d