Summit

2024 APS Global Psychological Science Summit · 2024

The Theory of Behavioral Choice Applied to Environmental Activism

Virtual · October 2024

Posters · Science of Behavior Change

  • Robert Gifford
    University of Victoria
  • Zahra Asgarizadeh
    University of Victoria

Abstract

Individuals actively support environmental causes...or not. The recently-developed Theory of Behavioral Choice (TBC) was employed to predict reported activism. Intentions were assessed first, predicted by six TBC variables, and reported activism behavior was assessed one month later. The dragons of inaction significantly moderated the intention-behavior gap, thus supporting the TBC.

Climate Change

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