Beyond self-reports: A call for more behavior in environmental psychology

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dc.abstract.enWhen 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.
dc.affiliationCentrum badań nad zachowaniami społecznymi, Wydział Psychologii we Wrocławiu
dc.affiliationWydział Psychologii we Wrocławiu
dc.affiliationInstytut Psychologii
dc.contributor.authorLange, Florian
dc.contributor.authorBerger, Sebastian
dc.contributor.authorByrka, Katarzyna
dc.contributor.authorBrügger, Adrian
dc.contributor.authorHenn, Laura
dc.contributor.authorSparks, Aaron C.
dc.contributor.authorSteensen Nielsen, Kristian
dc.contributor.authorUrban, Jan
dc.date.access2025-03-01
dc.date.accessioned2023-12-11T08:15:54Z
dc.date.available2023-12-11T08:15:54Z
dc.date.created2023-01-07
dc.date.issued2023-03
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dc.description.versionfinal_author
dc.description.volume86
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.jenvp.2023.101965
dc.identifier.issn0272-4944
dc.identifier.urihttps://share.swps.edu.pl/handle/swps/207
dc.identifier.weblinkhttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0272494423000130?via%3Dihub
dc.languageen
dc.pbn.affiliationpsychologia
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dc.titleBeyond self-reports: A call for more behavior in environmental psychology
dc.title.journalJournal of Environmental Psychology
dc.typeJournalArticle
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