PSYC 391 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Ecological Footprint, Distribution Of Wealth, Extreme Weather

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 391
• Professor: Michael Schmitt

Document Summary

If just focus on psychology and not focus on broader issues just end up. Many work that psychologist research on sustainability is a bit bias o with psychology and not addressing issue on sustainability. What are the psychological causes of pro-environmental behaviours? o o a more sustainable direction. To better influence people"s attitudes, beliefs, behaviours, shifting them in. Use this knowledge to use and help to lead people to act in. Lots of the research has limitations to this we need to recognize these sustainable way o limitations of this approach psychological way of pro environmental way. Recent psychology work rather then just thinking about environment damage but we are still not doing anything about it. Researcher turned this around we know it is causing. What are the psychological causes of anti-environmental behaviours? o that is not sustainable and already causing us problems. We humans are depleting the earth"s resources and systems in a way.