The Cognitive Psychology of Environmental Sustainability
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Psychology of Sustainability and Sustainable Development".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 October 2021) | Viewed by 17707
Special Issue Editors
Interests: psychology; cognition; perception; judgment; thinking and reasoning; problem solving; decision making; environment; sustainability; climate change; energy systems
Interests: indoor environmental quality (IEQ); integration of solar energy in buildings; integration of photovoltaic and electric vehicles in electricity grids; human behavior and rebounds in sustainable built environments
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Many environmental issues are rooted in systematic biases in human cognition and decision making. This Special Issue will bring together the work of scientists who address global and local environmental issues with concepts, theories, and methods of cognitive psychology. The aim is to bring about empirical, theoretical, and conceptual advances in the scientific knowledge of how people perceive, understand, react to, and solve environmental problems. The Special Issue covers studies on individual and collective judgment and decision making, heuristics and biases, reasoning and thinking, memory, attention, perception, and problem solving in relation to natural resources, environment, climate change, and related sustainability issues. The issue covers, but is not limited to, human-environment cognition such as that underpinning compensatory green beliefs, rebound effects, the negative footprint illusion, quantity insensitivity in consumption, effects of eco-labeling on consumer’s behavior and product perception, cognitive factors on energy-related behavior, heuristics in energy judgments, resource dilemmas and environmental impact estimates. While these examples concern how people influence the environment in a broad sense, which is another focus of the Special Issue, the issue also welcomes studies of how the environment influences people, but only if these studies inform strategies for efficient natural resource management and solutions to environmental problems; for example, studies on the influence of energy efficiency measures on occupant satisfaction and other psychological factors in buildings.
Prof. Dr. Patrik Sörqvist
Dr. Doctor Alan Kabanshi
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- cognition
- judgment
- thinking and reasoning
- problem solving
- decision making
- memory
- perception
- heuristics and biases
- environment
- sustainability
- climate change
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