scholarly journals "Green to be seen" and "brown to keep down": Identity moderates the effect of visibility on environmental behavior

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cameron Brick ◽  
David Sherman ◽  
Heejung Kim
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Group Membership ◽  
Political Identity ◽  
Environmental Behavior ◽  
Environmental Psychology ◽  
Social Identities ◽  
Total N ◽  
Multilevel Studies ◽  
Behavior Scale ◽  
Behavior Frequency

Social identities predict pro-environmental behavior, but the strength may depend on whether the behavior is visible to others. When an environmentalist considers a pro-environmental behavior such as carrying reusable grocery bags, being observed by others may motivate signaling the valued group membership and may increase behavior ("green to be seen"). When an anti-environmentalist considers a pro-environmental behavior that could signal that unwanted social identity, being observed may lead to less behavior ("brown to keep down"). United States residents completed three correlational surveys (total N = 1,126) of identity, visibility, and self-reported behavior frequency using the Recurring Pro-environmental Behavior Scale. Three multilevel studies revealed that environmentalist identity predicted pro-environmental behavior more strongly for high-visibility behaviors, controlling for confounds at the person level (attitudes, political identity) and the behavior level (difficulty, effectiveness). This research helps uncover the key social identities and contextual factors that lead individuals to embrace or reject pro-environmental behaviors.Brick, C., Sherman, D. K., & Kim, H. S. (2017). “Green to be seen” and “brown to keep down”: Visibility moderates the effect of identity on pro-environmental behavior. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 51, 226–238. doi:10.1016/j.jenvp.2017.04.004

Implicit Political Identity

2013 ◽  
Vol 46 (03) ◽  
pp. 545-549 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander George Theodoridis
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Class ◽  
Political Behavior ◽  
Political Identity ◽  
The United States ◽  
Social Identities ◽  
Precise Definition ◽  
Measurement Strategy ◽  
Party Ideology ◽  
Conceptual Foundations

It is easy enough to rattle off numerous categories of social identities long of interest to political behavior scholars—race, sex, state or nation, party, ideology, social class, etc. But, a precise definition and measurement strategy for examining these identities is more elusive. This article discusses the conceptual foundations of a recently developed approach to measuring identity and focuses on its specific application as a new measure of partisanship in the United States.

scholarly journals Legacies of war: Syrian narratives of conflict and visions of peace

2021 ◽  
pp. 001083672110326
Author(s):  
Kathrin Bachleitner
Keyword(s):  
Civil Rights ◽  
International Relations ◽  
Group Membership ◽  
Social Identities ◽  
Bottom Up ◽  
War Memory ◽  
Political Ideas ◽  
Post Conflict ◽  
State And Society ◽  
Group Belonging

This article is interested in the formation of war legacies and how they interact with social identities. It suggests a bottom-up approach towards examining the societal processes in which individuals create a legacy of war. It posits that through their narratives of conflict, by remembering what happened to them as a group, they mould the meaning and boundaries of how the group will be membered post-conflict. The validity of the theorised link between war memory and group membership is then tested in the case of Syria. In 200 interviews, Syrians provided their narratives of the conflict and their vision of a future Syrian state and society. The findings show that most respondents’ narratives follow a civic rationale, forming a society around civil rights and political ideas rather than around ethnic/sectarian divides. With this, the article contributes a new route for international relations scholars to understand the formation of war legacies through individuals’ narratives of conflict and explains their effects on ties of group belonging while also offering a glimpse into the Syrian ‘we’ amid the ongoing war in Syria.

Altering distance and defining authority

2009 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 238-259 ◽  
Author(s):  
Minna Nevala
Keyword(s):  
Interpersonal Relationships ◽  
Group Membership ◽  
Social Identities ◽  
Third Party ◽  
Altering Distance ◽  
The Social ◽  
Person Reference ◽  
Social Deixis ◽  
Late Modern ◽  
Common Function

This article studies the use of nominal terms and pronouns as a means to refer to a third party, as well as to the writer him/herself and the addressee in written interaction. The purpose is to discuss the concepts of person reference and social deixis by looking at how the interactants’ social identities and interpersonal relationships are encoded in the use of referential terms in Late Modern English letters and journals. The results show that the term friend may be used when the writer has something to gain from it: an actual favour, a reciprocal act of solidarity, or an access to the addressee’s/referent’s in-group. In general, shifting between in-group/out-group membership appears to be a common function for the use of friend. The use of addressee- and self-oriented reference is in turn determined by the social and contextual aspects of appearance, attitude, and authority.

scholarly journals Children’s restorative justice in an intergroup context

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xin Yang ◽  
Zhen Wu ◽  
Yarrow Dunham
Keyword(s):  
Young Children ◽  
Restorative Justice ◽  
Group Membership ◽  
Color Preference ◽  
Third Party ◽  
Total N ◽  
Research Challenges ◽  
Standard Response

The present study investigated 3- to 6-year-old (total n = 158) children’s restoration behaviors both when they were second-party victims (Experiment 1) and when they were third-party bystanders (Experiment 2) of transgressions. We also explored how group membership (based on color preference) affects these behaviors. We found that children preferred restoration to punishment, and that they emphasized restorative justice not only for themselves but also for others. Furthermore, when they were victims of transgressions, the tendency to choose restoration over punishment was stronger in older than younger children. Second-party restoration behavior was influenced by group concerns in that children treated ingroup transgressors more leniently than outgroup and unaffiliated transgressors, but third-party restoration behavior was not. Our research challenges the view that punishment is the standard response to transgressions and suggests that alternative options like restoration are sometimes preferred over punishment by young children.

scholarly journals Green consumption does not make people cheat: Three replications of a moral licensing experiment (more recent version was published in the Journal of Environmental Psychology: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2019.01.011)

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan Urban ◽  
Štěpán Bahník ◽  
Markéta Braun Kohlová
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Psychology ◽  
Original Study ◽  
Total N ◽  
Green Consumption ◽  
Moral Licensing ◽  
Cross Domain ◽  
Cast Doubt ◽  
Recent Version

A recent study (Mazar & Zhong, 2010) argued that green consumption may serve as a moral license and thus lead to subsequent dishonest behavior. In our three replications of the study (total N = 1,274), two of which were preregistered, participants’ level of green consumption was manipulated by having them purchase goods in either a green or conventional store. Three different tasks which allowed participants to cheat for monetary profit were used to measure dishonesty across the experiments. We found no effect of green consumption on subsequent honesty. These results cast doubt on the size of the effect found in the original study and suggest that green consumption is unlikely to trigger a cross-domain moral licensing effect.

Children’s Responsible Environmental Behavior Scale

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mehmet Erdogan ◽  
Ahmet Ok ◽  
Thomas Joseph Marcinkowski
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Behavior ◽  
Responsible Environmental Behavior ◽  
Behavior Scale

Pro-environmental Behavior Scale

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marianne Heyl ◽  
Emilio Moyano Díaz ◽  
Luis Cifuentes
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Behavior ◽  
Behavior Scale

Forging a Diasporic Nigerian Ethnicity in the United States and Britain

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Onoso Imoagene
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Identity Formation ◽  
Second Generation ◽  
Group Membership ◽  
Ethnically Diverse ◽  
The United States ◽  
Assimilation Theory ◽  
Segmented Assimilation

Chapter 4 examines why the Nigerian second generation in both the United States and Britain did not forge a reactive black ethnicity as predicted by segmented assimilation theory. It describes how blackness can be constructed to be ethnically diverse. The chapter details how the Nigerian second generation are forging a diasporic Nigerian ethnicity in the United States and Britain via two simultaneous processes required in identity formation: signaling difference from members of other groups and establishing similarity to determine the boundaries of group membership. I thoroughly discuss the cultural, moral and socioeconomic boundaries established by the Nigerian second generation to delineate ethnic parameters between themselves and their proximal host. I also explain why the second generation in Britain does not draw as sharp of a boundary between themselves and their proximal hosts compared to their U.S. counterparts.

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