PSY435H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Waste Hierarchy, Social Rejection, Consumerism
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Walking home from parents house, have certain frame of mind when you see garbage, you pick it up! Cross-culturally people think differently about the environment because the upbringing of people in certain cultures: two types of connections. Human relationships with the environment differ cross-culturally. Affects our mental well-being, whether the environment influences our health, stress (e. g. looking at a sunset after surgery may promote positive feelings) The destruction of environment research archives in canada. Shows the importance canadians have on environmental issues. Canada is dead last in environmental policies: this shows that these are not environmental issues but political issues. We go from psychology > environment > politics. When looking at environmental problems/solutions, what kind of disciplines is involved: e. g. carbon emission, buying/using carbon, there are 2 main types of solutions in environmental problems. More scientific reasoning, rather than changing the views: technology, politics. The changing of government policies in order to strength/benefit in the economy (e. g. gaining profit)
