Guilty conscience: motivating pro-environmental behavior by inducing negative moral emotions

Climatic Change

Volumn 130, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 439-452

  Rees, Jonas H ^a,b   Klug, Sabine ^a   Bamberg, Sebastian ^b  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MOTIVATION;

BEHAVIORAL INTENTION; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORKS; ENVIRONMENTAL ACTION; ENVIRONMENTAL ATTITUDES; ENVIRONMENTAL DAMAGE; ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES; MORAL EMOTIONS; PRO-ENVIRONMENTAL BEHAVIORS;

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT;

CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUE; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; HUMAN ACTIVITY; MOBILIZATION; PARTICIPATORY APPROACH; PSYCHOLOGY; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 84930046997     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: 15731480     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-014-1278-x     Document Type: Article

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