Spillover effects in environmental behaviors, across time and context: a review and research agenda

This forum reflects upon the current state of research on post-conflict natural resource management. It identifies two dominant perspectives on environmental peacebuilding in the literature: one focused on environmental cooperation, the other on resource risk. Both perspectives share a concern for the sustainable management of natural resources in post-conflict settings and prescribe environmental cooperation at large as a means to foster peace and stability. Yet both perspectives also feature notable differences: The cooperation perspective is driven by a faith in the potential of environmental cooperation to contribute to long-term peace through spillover effects. The resource risk perspective, however, recognizes that resource-induced instability may arise after intrastate conflict; stressing the need to mitigate instability by implementing environmental cooperation initiatives. Despite the significant contributions of both perspectives, neither has provided any cohesive theoretical understanding of environmental peacebuilding. This article suggests a timely revision of the research agenda to address this gap.

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Can’t Hurt, Might Help: Examining the Spillover Effects From Purposefully Adopting a New Pro-Environmental Behavior

Environment and Behavior ◽

10.1177/0013916517748164 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 51 (3) ◽

pp. 259-287 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Katherine Lacasse

Keyword(s):

Environmental Behavior ◽

Spillover Effect ◽

Community Organizations ◽

Spillover Effects ◽

Policy Support ◽

Environmental Responsibility ◽

Environmental Behaviors ◽

Positive Effects ◽

Positive Spillover ◽

Do So

This field experiment investigated whether purposefully adopting a new pro-environmental behavior (e.g., unplugging appliances, reusing shopping bags) led to positive spillover by altering people’s subsequent pro-environmental behaviors and political attitudes. Participants ( N = 125) recruited through community organizations were randomly assigned to either adopt a new pro-environmental behavior of their choice for three weeks, or were not invited to do so. Behavior adoption increased participants’ likelihood of contacting their senator about climate change, but had little direct spillover effect on other individual pro-environmental behaviors, their likelihood of making household-wide changes, the political importance they placed on climate-related issues, or their support for emissions-reducing policies. Behavior adoption increased sense of environmental responsibility among some participants, leading to indirect positive effects on purchasing organic/local produce and policy support. Overall, observed positive spillover effects were limited and relatively small. There was little indication that behavior adoption led to any meaningful negative spillover effects.

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Congruency or incongruency: a theoretical framework and opportunities for future research avenues

Journal of Product & Brand Management ◽

10.1108/jpbm-03-2020-2795 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽

Author(s):

Andreas Aldogan Eklund ◽

Miralem Helmefalk

Keyword(s):

Research Agenda ◽

Spillover Effects ◽

Underlying Mechanism ◽

Theoretical Framework ◽

Future Research ◽

Content Type ◽

Semantic Cues ◽

Future Research Agenda ◽

Trade Offs ◽

Theoretical Foundations

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to conceptualise and provide a future research agenda for (in)congruence regarding cues between products, brands and atmospheres. Design/methodology/approach A semi-systematic literature review was conducted. The aim was to assess, critique and synthesise (in)congruence, which was found in the literature to be dispersed and interdisciplinary, and to propose a theoretical framework in the marketing domain. Findings Firstly, the review reveals that sensory and semantic cues are interrelated in products, brands and atmospheres. It illustrates that these cues are the foundation for (in)congruence. Secondly, the findings show various theoretical foundations for (in)congruence. These explain where and how congruence occurs. Lastly, a theoretical framework for (in)congruence and a future research agenda were developed to stimulate further research. Research limitations/implications A theoretical framework was developed to enrich the theoretical knowledge and understanding of (in)congruence in the marketing domain. Practical implications The review reveals that products, brands and atmospheres have spillover effects. Managers are advised to understand the semantic meaning carried by cues to foster various outcomes, to estimate the trade-offs when modifying (in)congruent cues for products, brands and atmospheres. Originality/value The developed theoretical framework advances and deepens the knowledge of (in)congruence in the marketing domain by moving beyond the match and fit between two entities and by revealing the underlying mechanism and its outcomes.

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From meditation to action – a research agenda for studying informal global rule-making: remarks on ‘Cosmopolitanism, publicity, and the emergence of a “global administrative law”’

International Theory ◽

10.1017/s1752971920000639 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 1-7

Author(s):

Oliver Westerwinter

Keyword(s):

Global Governance ◽

Comparative Research ◽

Research Agenda ◽

Institutional Design ◽

Administrative Law ◽

Democratic Legitimacy ◽

Institutional Architecture ◽

Global Law ◽

Rule Making ◽

Law Making

Abstract Friedrich Kratochwil engages critically with the emergence of a global administrative law and its consequences for the democratic legitimacy of global governance. While he makes important contributions to our understanding of global governance, he does not sufficiently discuss the differences in the institutional design of new forms of global law-making and their consequences for the effectiveness and legitimacy of global governance. I elaborate on these limitations and outline a comparative research agenda on the emergence, design, and effectiveness of the diverse arrangements that constitute the complex institutional architecture of contemporary global governance.

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Delivering HIV services to vulnerable populations: an evaluation and research agenda

Public Health Reports ◽

10.1016/s0033-3549(04)50117-6 ◽

2002 ◽

Vol 117 (2) ◽

pp. 114-122 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

Martha M McKinney ◽

Katherine M Marconi ◽

Paul D Cleary ◽

Jennifer Kates ◽

Steven R Young ◽

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Keyword(s):

Vulnerable Populations ◽

Research Agenda ◽

Hiv Services

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The Limits of Ego Depletion

Social Psychology ◽

10.1027/1864-9335/a000365 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 50 (5-6) ◽

pp. 292-304 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Mario Wenzel ◽

Marina Lind ◽

Zarah Rowland ◽

Daniela Zahn ◽

Thomas Kubiak

Keyword(s):

Research Agenda ◽

Statistical Power ◽

Interindividual Variability ◽

Ego Depletion ◽

Crossover Design ◽

Effect Sizes ◽

Future Research ◽

Future Research Agenda ◽

Depletion Effect ◽

Within Subjects

Abstract. Evidence on the existence of the ego depletion phenomena as well as the size of the effects and potential moderators and mediators are ambiguous. Building on a crossover design that enables superior statistical power within a single study, we investigated the robustness of the ego depletion effect between and within subjects and moderating and mediating influences of the ego depletion manipulation checks. Our results, based on a sample of 187 participants, demonstrated that (a) the between- and within-subject ego depletion effects only had negligible effect sizes and that there was (b) large interindividual variability that (c) could not be explained by differences in ego depletion manipulation checks. We discuss the implications of these results and outline a future research agenda.

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