scholarly journals Cultural Models of the Self and Environmentalism: A Cross-cultural and Experimental Investigation

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Hamish Duff
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Environmental Performance ◽  
Environmental Attitudes ◽  
Experimental Studies ◽  
Cultural Models ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
The Self ◽  
Human Relations ◽  
Self Construal ◽  
Nature Connectedness

<p>Previous research suggests human–nature relations are influenced by human–human relations, particularly those related to the inclusion of others in self. Individuals who construe the self as more interdependent from others are more likely to protect nature than those who construe the self as more independent from others. We conducted cross-cultural and experimental studies to examine this proposition systematically using a recently developed seven-dimension model of self-construal. Study 1 (N = 7,279, k = 55) confirmed that those who saw themselves as more connected and committed to others were more likely to endorse environmental protectionism. Multilevel moderation analysis indicated that the association between commitment to others and environmental protection was stronger in societies that express greater difference to others and have greater self-expression, commitment to others, environmental performance, and societal development. However, experimentally priming interdependent versus independent self-construals in Study 2 (N = 419) did not increase participants’ connectedness with nature, but nature connectedness mediated the relationships between connection to others and pro-environmental attitudes. Results indicate that inclusion of others in self translates into inclusion of nature in self and environmental protection but inducing this effect may be challenging.</p>

scholarly journals Cultural Models of the Self and Environmentalism: A Cross-cultural and Experimental Investigation

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Hamish Duff
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Environmental Performance ◽  
Environmental Attitudes ◽  
Experimental Studies ◽  
Cultural Models ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
The Self ◽  
Human Relations ◽  
Self Construal ◽  
Nature Connectedness

<p>Previous research suggests human–nature relations are influenced by human–human relations, particularly those related to the inclusion of others in self. Individuals who construe the self as more interdependent from others are more likely to protect nature than those who construe the self as more independent from others. We conducted cross-cultural and experimental studies to examine this proposition systematically using a recently developed seven-dimension model of self-construal. Study 1 (N = 7,279, k = 55) confirmed that those who saw themselves as more connected and committed to others were more likely to endorse environmental protectionism. Multilevel moderation analysis indicated that the association between commitment to others and environmental protection was stronger in societies that express greater difference to others and have greater self-expression, commitment to others, environmental performance, and societal development. However, experimentally priming interdependent versus independent self-construals in Study 2 (N = 419) did not increase participants’ connectedness with nature, but nature connectedness mediated the relationships between connection to others and pro-environmental attitudes. Results indicate that inclusion of others in self translates into inclusion of nature in self and environmental protection but inducing this effect may be challenging.</p>

scholarly journals Promoting pro-environmental behaviours through induced hypocrisy

2018 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 74-90
Author(s):  
Philippe Odou ◽  
Peter Darke ◽  
Dimitri Voisin
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Cognitive Dissonance ◽  
Experimental Studies ◽  
Ethical Consumption ◽  
The Self ◽  
Actual Behaviour ◽  
Environmental Behaviours

In the field of ethical consumption, research in recent years has attempted to explain the gap between principles and actual behaviour. Three experimental studies show that when the contradiction between what individuals say and what they do is made salient in the field of environmental protection, that is to say in a situation of induced hypocrisy, they indirectly reduce the resulting cognitive dissonance by being more altruistic towards associations that act for the environment but not towards humanitarian associations. This effect of induced hypocrisy fades as individuals become less vulnerable to the threat to the self by affirming values that are important to them.

scholarly journals Disassociating conformity driven and self-interest driven dishonest behaviors

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nora Huang ◽  
siyang luo
Keyword(s):  
Simulation Modeling ◽  
Experimental Studies ◽  
External Environment ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
The Self ◽  
Agent Based ◽  
Cultural Contexts ◽  
Environmental Predictability ◽  
Self Interest

Dishonest behavior can be driven by both self-interest and social learning towards the external environment. However, whether and how these two processes (conformity-driven and self-interest-driven dishonesty) relate and interact to influence dishonest acts remains unknown. In the current research, we propose a computational model consisting of these two dishonesty processes. The results of the agent-based simulation modeling and experimental studies revealed that self-interest driven-dishonesty propensity determined the extent of dishonesty when one was in pursuit of self-interests, while the effect of dishonesty conformity on dishonesty was dependent on both the self and environmental dishonesty propensity. In addition, self-interest-driven dishonesty propensity was related to individuals’ preference for value allocation, while dishonesty conformity was related to the belief in environmental predictability. In cross-cultural contexts, these two processes of dishonesty exert distinct effects on participants’ tendency to violate the regulation rules of the local government and impacted the development of the local prevalence of pathogens during the COVID-19 epidemic. The results of the current in-depth research validate the processes of conformity-driven and self-interest-driven dishonesty when dishonest behaviors emerged and to uncover how these two processes influenced the progression of a real-life emergent event.

scholarly journals Cognition and the self: Attempt of an independent close replication of the effects of self-construal priming on spatial memory recall

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Igor Grossmann ◽  
Nickta Jowhari
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Memory ◽  
Original Study ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
The Self ◽  
Memory Recall ◽  
Digital Version ◽  
Independent Condition ◽  
Visual Spatial ◽  
Self Construal ◽  
Construal Priming

Do different modes of thinking about the self lead to differences in performance on a contextual memory task? We conducted a pre-registered replication of the study of self-construal priming on spatial memory by Kühnen and Oyserman (2002; Study 2), simultaneously evaluating the role of task-compliance, operationalization specificity, and cross-cultural robustness. In the original study, participants either circled first-person plural (interdependent condition) or singular pronouns (independent condition) when reading a passage and subsequently memorized and recalled a set of objects presented on a visual-spatial grid. When employing a digital version of the original procedure, we were able to replicate the original findings, with better recall of objects in their original location in the interdependent (vs. independent) condition. Notably, the effect of self-construal priming on spatial memory was strongest when screening out participants who did not comply with instructions on the pronoun task and absent when including non-compliant participants. Moreover, in contrast to the original study, effects of priming were not specific to object-&amp;-location operationalization of spatial memory recall, and also present for location-independent object recall and object-independent spatial placement recall. Additionally, condition effects were robust across observed cultural differences: Though white participants performing less successfully compared to non-white participants, both groups were comparably susceptible to priming effects. We discuss the present results and insights learned from the replication process in light of the on-going debate about the replicability of psychological experiments, highlighting the notion of task-compliance, methodological transparency and cross-cultural factors for further advancement of psychological science.

Self-Construal Differences in Chile and South Korea: A Brief Report

2019 ◽  
Vol 123 (6) ◽  
pp. 2410-2417 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paloma Benavides ◽  
Taekyun Hur
Keyword(s):  
South Korea ◽  
Cultural Differences ◽  
Latin American ◽  
East Asian ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
The Self ◽  
Two Cultures ◽  
Self Construal ◽  
Interdependent Self ◽  
Latin American Countries

Latin American and East Asian cultures are generally considered to be collectivistic cultures. However, there are very few cross-cultural studies contrasting these two cultures against each other, as most studies in this field compare them to Western culture. Self-construal is one of the most used constructs to explain cultural differences, elucidating whether individuals of a cultural group see themselves as independent of their environment and others, focusing on personal motivations, or interdependent of others and their context, recognizing their role within it. This study intends to compare the self-construal of Chileans and South Koreans and observe the variability in the presence of these dimensions in these two cultures. A total of 200 participants from Chile and South Korea responded to the Self-Construal Scale. Chileans presented significantly higher scores on independent and interdependent self-construal simultaneously when compared to South Koreans. Also, Chileans presented higher scores on independent self-construal than on interdependent self-construal, while Koreans did not show a preference for either dimension. These results are consistent with previous studies on Chileans, implying that not all Latin American countries would adhere to collectivism.

Neural Mechanism of Cultural Influences on the Self-construal

2013 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 149-157 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shuai YANG ◽  
Xi-Ting HUANG ◽  
Xiao-Gang WANG ◽  
Tian-Zi YIN
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Influences ◽  
Neural Mechanism ◽  
The Self ◽  
Self Construal

scholarly journals Corporate Environmental Performance in China: The Moderating Effects of the Media versus the Approach of Local Governments

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 150
Author(s):  
Zhiru Guo ◽  
Chao Lu
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Environmental Performance ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Random Effect ◽  
Random Effect Model ◽  
Corporate Environmental Performance ◽  
Media Attention ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Impact

This article selects the listed companies in China’s A-share heavy pollution industry from 2014 to 2018 as samples, uses a random effect model to empirically test the relationship between media attention and corporate environmental performance and examines the impacts of local government environmental protection and property nature on that relationship. Results are as follow: (1) Media attention can significantly affect a company’s environmental performance. The higher the media attention, the greater the company’s supervision and the better its environmental performance. (2) In areas where the government pays less attention to environmental protection, the impact of media on corporate environmental performance is more obvious, but in other areas, the impact of media on environmental performance cannot be reflected; (3) The media attention is very significant for the environmental performance improvement of state-owned enterprises, and it is not obvious in non-state-owned enterprises. (4) A further breakdown of the study found that the role of media attention in corporate environmental performance is only significant in the sample of local governments that have low environmental protection and are state-owned enterprises. This research incorporates the local government’s emphasis on environmental protection into the research field of vision, expands the research scope of media and corporate environmental performance, and also provides new clues and evidence for promoting the active fulfillment of environmental protection responsibilities by companies and local governments.

Evaporative self-assembly of binary mixture of soft colloids

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Merin Jose ◽  
Muraleedharapai Mayarani ◽  
Madivala G Basavaraj ◽  
Dillip Kumar Satapathy
Keyword(s):  
Binary Mixture ◽  
Self Assembly ◽  
Sessile Drop ◽  
Experimental Studies ◽  
The Self ◽  
Soft Colloids

We report experimental studies on the self-assembly and degree of ordering of binary mixture of soft colloids in the monolayer deposits obtained by controlled evaporation. A sessile drop containing soft...

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