Sustainable Behavior

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Introduction

• From Physiology to Policy: Understanding and Promoting Sustainable Behavior
  A. Timur Sevincer and Johann M. Majer

Chapter 1: Physiological and Emotional Foundations of Sustainable Behavior

• Saving the Environment? That Is Beyond My (Will)Power!
  Julia M. Jankowski, Christopher Mlynski, Tina Prinz, and Veronika Job
• Moral Self-Regulation and Recycling: Does Feeling Guilty Make Us Want to Recycle More?
  Cody D. Packard and P. Wesley Schultz
• From Feeling to Doing in Social Dilemmas: Emotional and Behavioral Responses to Climate Change
  Nikoletta Georgiou and Paul A. M. Van Lange

Chapter 2: Self-Regulation Strategies to Promote Individual Sustainable Behavior

• Negotiating With Yourself and Winning: The Dual Commitment Model for Intrapersonal Sustainability Goal Conflicts
  A. Timur Sevincer, Johann M. Majer, and Roman Tro¨tschel
• Individualizing Proenvironmental Behavior in the Context of Structural Impediments
  Gabriele Oettingen and Peter M. Gollwitzer
• Empowering Change: A Self-Control Perspective on How Choice Architecture Interventions Can Promote Sustainable Behavior Change
  Lukas Engel, Charlotte A. Kukowski, and Ulf J. J. Hahnel

Chapter 3: Sociocultural and Normative Influences on Sustainable Behavior

• Why Do I Act for the Environment? Socioeconomic Status Moderates the Relationship Between Climate Change Beliefs and Sustainable Actions
  Heejung S. Kim, Kimin Eom, Luca A. Panzone, and David K. Sherman
• Defeminizing Sustainability: How to Boost Men’s Motivation for Proenvironmental Behavior
  Maria Hällfritzsch, Lucia Volpi, Kenneth G. Daniel, Csenge Somogyi, Astrid Kause, Gerhard Reese, and David D. Loschelder
• Using Norm Networks to Map Cultural Differences in Predictors of Proenvironmental Behavior in the United States and India
  Rohini Majumdar, Gregg Sparkman, Radhika Khosla, and Elke U. Weber

Chapter 4: Collective Action and Policy Acceptance

• When Will We Join the Road Blockade? (Non)Conformity to Radical Climate Protest Norms Under Salient Threat to Personal Control
  Fabian M. Hess, Torsten Masson, and Immo Fritsche
• The Desire for Governmental Support as a Motivational Foundation of Climate Policy Acceptance
  Sonja Grelle and Wilhelm Hofmann