Beyond self-reports: A call for more behavior in environmental psychology
Beyond self-reports: A call for more behavior in environmental psychology
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Lange, Florian
Berger, Sebastian
Byrka, Katarzyna
Brügger, Adrian
Henn, Laura
Sparks, Aaron C.
Steensen Nielsen, Kristian
Urban, Jan
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2023-03
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Journal of Environmental Psychology
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86
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1-11
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0272-4944
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2025-03-01
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When environmental psychologists measure behavior, they can pursue different objectives. They may seek to quantify characteristics of particular behaviors that naturally occur in the life of people, such as the frequency of meat consumption or the time spent in natural environments. Alternatively, researchers may want to measure responses to experimentally arranged situations to study how behavior varies as a function of contextual changes or psychological manipulations. Yet another objective may entail using behavioral information to infer psychological characteristics of persons, such as their environmental attitude or connectedness to nature. In all three cases, behavioral information is commonly obtained from participants’ verbal responses to questionnaire items (Lange et al., 2018; Steg & Vlek, 2009). We believe that overreliance on this practice limits the conclusiveness, generalizability, and practical impact of research in environmental psychology. In this letter, we highlight some ways to overcome these limitations.
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