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Social Norms & Environmental Behavior

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HUM-420: L'(in)action pro-environnementale I

Cet enseignement de Psychologie Sociale interroge les écarts entre intentions et comportements, les freins à l'action individuelle et collective, ainsi que les mécanismes de justification morale qui permettent de maintenir l'inaction malgré la conscience d ...

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This lecture explores the influence of social norms on environmental behavior, focusing on the constructive, destructive, and reconstructive power of norms. It delves into the impact of descriptive and injunctive norms on energy consumption, highlighting the 'boomerang' effect and the counterbalancing role of injunctive norms. Additionally, it discusses the role of personal norms in pro-environmental behavior change interventions, emphasizing the interplay between static and dynamic social norms. The lecture also examines the motivational force of guilt, specifically eco-guilt, in driving eco-friendly behavior. Furthermore, it analyzes the emotional responses triggered by climate change and their potential to motivate climate action, drawing comparisons between scientists' and students' attitudes. The historical evolution of human-nature relationships, from prehistoric times to the Enlightenment era, is also discussed.

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Fabrizio Butera

Teaching & PhD Courses Cooperation and environmental psychology HUM-317 This seminar addresses the formation, change and maintenance of individual and collective pro-environmental behaviors, as studied by environmental social psychology. In particular, we will focus on the role of coopération. L'(in)action pro-environnementale I HUM-420 This Social Psychology course examines the gap between intentions and behaviors, the barriers to individual and collective action, and the mo

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Social norms approach

The social norms approach, or social norms marketing, is an environmental strategy gaining ground in health campaigns. While conducting research in the mid-1980s, two researchers, H.W. Perkins and A.D. Berkowitz, reported that students at a small U.S. college held exaggerated beliefs about the normal frequency and consumption habits of other students with regard to alcohol. These inflated perceptions have been found in many educational institutions, with varying populations and locations.

Norm (philosophy)

Norms are concepts (sentences) of practical import, oriented to affecting an action, rather than conceptual abstractions that describe, explain, and express. Normative sentences imply "ought-to" types of statements and assertions, in distinction to sentences that provide "is" types of statements and assertions. Common normative sentences include commands, permissions, and prohibitions; common normative abstract concepts include sincerity, justification, and honesty.

Theistic evolution

Theistic evolution (also known as theistic evolutionism or God-guided evolution) is a view that God acts and creates through laws of nature. It posits that the concept of God is compatible with the findings of modern science, including evolution. Theistic evolution is not in itself a scientific theory, but includes a range of views about how science relates to religious beliefs and the extent to which God intervenes. It rejects the strict creationist doctrines of special creation, but can include beliefs such as creation of the human soul.

Social order

The term social order can be used in two senses: In the first sense, it refers to a particular system of social structures and institutions. Examples are the ancient, the feudal, and the capitalist social order. In the second sense, social order is contrasted to social chaos or disorder and refers to a stable state of society in which the existing social structure is accepted and maintained by its members. The problem of order or Hobbesian problem, which is central to much of sociology, political science and political philosophy, is the question of how and why it is that social orders exist at all.

Sociocultural evolution

Sociocultural evolution, sociocultural evolutionism or social evolution are theories of sociobiology and cultural evolution that describe how societies and culture change over time. Whereas sociocultural development traces processes that tend to increase the complexity of a society or culture, sociocultural evolution also considers process that can lead to decreases in complexity (degeneration) or that can produce variation or proliferation without any seemingly significant changes in complexity (cladogenesis).

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