Psychology 3721F/G Chapter Notes - Chapter 18: Nimby, Environmental Values

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 3721F/G
• Professor: Taylor Kohut

Document Summary

Concern about pollution: largest environmental problems concerned with, especially pollution of drinking water; global warming was least of ppls concerns even though most serious problem. Solving energy problems: when world runs out of oil it will produce more (30%) or conserve (60%) Types of environmental values (1)egoistic= focus on self and self oriented goals (most narrow ) (2)altruistic: concern for other ppl (3) biospheric: concern for the well being of all living things (broadest) Value paradigms: dominant social paradigm: values and taditions of western culture; individualism and materialism, new environmental paradigm; env"tal movement in 1960s which began after first earth da; living in balance with nature tather then ruining it. Group differences in envtal attitudes: demographic variables associated with environmental concern. From attitudes to actions: general attitudes of envtal concern are only weakly related to performance of pro-environmental behaviorus; envtal attitues tend to be positively correlated with range of specific attitude behaviours but the correlations are weak;