Environmental Psychology Groningen
@epgroningen.bsky.social
Environmental Psychology department at the Faculty of Behavioural and Social Sciences at the University of Groningen 🍃
Such an approach could help to accelerate the #transition to the #circulareconomy that we so urgently need.
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February 10, 2026 at 1:16 PM
Such an approach could help to accelerate the #transition to the #circulareconomy that we so urgently need.
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To appeal to those values, policy makers can promote CCBs by publicizing how our current economic system and one’s own actions contribute to environmental problems & explaining the potential effects of CCBs that urge others to act to reduce environmental problems.
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February 10, 2026 at 1:15 PM
To appeal to those values, policy makers can promote CCBs by publicizing how our current economic system and one’s own actions contribute to environmental problems & explaining the potential effects of CCBs that urge others to act to reduce environmental problems.
The researchers also discovered that people with egoistic values (caring about wealth, power and achievement) are more likely to engage in CCBs, potentially because they value influence and CCBs enable them to influence the behaviors of others.
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February 10, 2026 at 1:13 PM
The researchers also discovered that people with egoistic values (caring about wealth, power and achievement) are more likely to engage in CCBs, potentially because they value influence and CCBs enable them to influence the behaviors of others.
And values play a role, too: people with strong #biospheric values (caring about the #environment) are likely to engage in CCBs.
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February 10, 2026 at 1:12 PM
And values play a role, too: people with strong #biospheric values (caring about the #environment) are likely to engage in CCBs.
The researchers studied which factors affect CCB so that those factors could inform decisions about effective interventions. They found that the more people feel responsible for and capable of taking #proenvironmental action, the more strongly motivated and likelier they are to ultimately do so.
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February 10, 2026 at 1:11 PM
The researchers studied which factors affect CCB so that those factors could inform decisions about effective interventions. They found that the more people feel responsible for and capable of taking #proenvironmental action, the more strongly motivated and likelier they are to ultimately do so.
However, in their paper, Pacheco, Van Der Werff and Steg found that people rarely engage in these behaviors, which means there is much untapped potential for systemic change through more citizen action in the future.
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February 10, 2026 at 12:55 PM
However, in their paper, Pacheco, Van Der Werff and Steg found that people rarely engage in these behaviors, which means there is much untapped potential for systemic change through more citizen action in the future.
And to urge governments to contribute to #systemicchange, individuals can contact their elected officials and tell them that they want policies that make it easier to engage in circular behavior.
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February 10, 2026 at 12:54 PM
And to urge governments to contribute to #systemicchange, individuals can contact their elected officials and tell them that they want policies that make it easier to engage in circular behavior.
At work, individual employees can encourage their companies to adopt #greener practices, like considering the environmental impact of their investment decisions.
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February 10, 2026 at 12:53 PM
At work, individual employees can encourage their companies to adopt #greener practices, like considering the environmental impact of their investment decisions.
For example, if your friend says they got the broken zipper on their coat replaced instead of buying a whole new garment, you can praise them for making a #circular choice.
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February 10, 2026 at 12:52 PM
For example, if your friend says they got the broken zipper on their coat replaced instead of buying a whole new garment, you can praise them for making a #circular choice.
That doesn't mean we sit around and wait for system change that enables circular consumption. We can accelerate that process through circular citizenship behaviours (CCBs): personally or collectively influencing other people, businesses & governments to take action to contribute to system change.
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February 10, 2026 at 12:52 PM
That doesn't mean we sit around and wait for system change that enables circular consumption. We can accelerate that process through circular citizenship behaviours (CCBs): personally or collectively influencing other people, businesses & governments to take action to contribute to system change.
Many people are motivated to engage in circular consumption. But our current linear societal and economic systems make it unattractive, if not nearly impossible, thereby inhibiting people from acting as circularly as they would like.
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February 10, 2026 at 12:48 PM
Many people are motivated to engage in circular consumption. But our current linear societal and economic systems make it unattractive, if not nearly impossible, thereby inhibiting people from acting as circularly as they would like.
In order to reduce environmental problems, we need to transition to a #circulareconomy, where all societal actors narrow (reduce resource use), slow (use resources longer) and close (recycle resources at the end of a product’s lifetime) the loop of resource use.
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February 10, 2026 at 12:46 PM
In order to reduce environmental problems, we need to transition to a #circulareconomy, where all societal actors narrow (reduce resource use), slow (use resources longer) and close (recycle resources at the end of a product’s lifetime) the loop of resource use.
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PhD Isabel Pacheco and co-authors Ellen van der Werff and Linda Steg found that people rarely engage in #circular citizenship behaviours. How can we access all that untapped potential for #systemicchange through more citizen action in the future?
Here's a thread on one of our recent papers🧵
Here's a thread on one of our recent papers🧵
Circular citizenship behaviours to promote systemic change: Influences of values, beliefs, norms, and personal agency
Environmental problems arise from our current societal and economic systems and could be alleviated by transforming such systems towards more sustaina…
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February 10, 2026 at 12:43 PM
PhD Isabel Pacheco and co-authors Ellen van der Werff and Linda Steg found that people rarely engage in #circular citizenship behaviours. How can we access all that untapped potential for #systemicchange through more citizen action in the future?
Here's a thread on one of our recent papers🧵
Here's a thread on one of our recent papers🧵
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💷⚡ Big boost for local green energy!
The UK is pledging up to £1bn for community-owned renewable projects. Local areas could control, profit from, and even lower bills with their own clean power. 🌱🏘
The UK is pledging up to £1bn for community-owned renewable projects. Local areas could control, profit from, and even lower bills with their own clean power. 🌱🏘
Miliband pledges up to £1bn for community green energy schemes
UK projects will allow local areas to control and profit from renewable power generation, says energy secretary
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February 10, 2026 at 10:37 AM
💷⚡ Big boost for local green energy!
The UK is pledging up to £1bn for community-owned renewable projects. Local areas could control, profit from, and even lower bills with their own clean power. 🌱🏘
The UK is pledging up to £1bn for community-owned renewable projects. Local areas could control, profit from, and even lower bills with their own clean power. 🌱🏘
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Bijzonder hoogleraar Kim Poldner kan zich boos maken om schadelijke fast fashion bedrijven als Shein, maar haar academische werk - en persoonlijke missie - draait juist om wat wél kan: herstel, vernieuwing en toekomstkracht 👗👚🧦
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February 10, 2026 at 10:37 AM
Bijzonder hoogleraar Kim Poldner kan zich boos maken om schadelijke fast fashion bedrijven als Shein, maar haar academische werk - en persoonlijke missie - draait juist om wat wél kan: herstel, vernieuwing en toekomstkracht 👗👚🧦
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Global economy must move past GDP to avoid planetary disaster, warns UN chief
- António Guterres says world’s accounting systems should place true value on the environment
#climatecrisis
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- António Guterres says world’s accounting systems should place true value on the environment
#climatecrisis
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Global economy must move past GDP to avoid planetary disaster, warns UN chief
Exclusive: António Guterres says world’s accounting systems should place true value on the environment
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February 9, 2026 at 9:32 AM
Global economy must move past GDP to avoid planetary disaster, warns UN chief
- António Guterres says world’s accounting systems should place true value on the environment
#climatecrisis
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
- António Guterres says world’s accounting systems should place true value on the environment
#climatecrisis
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Ons collega Ellen van der Werff gaf vorig jaar een lezing over de signaalwaarde van beleid: "Als overheden, organisaties en instellingen duurzaam beleid invoeren is dat een extra duurzame context, waardoor beleid signaalwaarde kan hebben."
Denken mensen positiever over elektrisch rijden nadat de overheid een subsidie instelt?
Signaalwaarde van beleid: welke invloed hebben de descriptieve, injunctieve en dynamische norm op gedrag? Door prof. dr. Ellen van der Werff
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February 9, 2026 at 9:34 AM
Ons collega Ellen van der Werff gaf vorig jaar een lezing over de signaalwaarde van beleid: "Als overheden, organisaties en instellingen duurzaam beleid invoeren is dat een extra duurzame context, waardoor beleid signaalwaarde kan hebben."
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🤩🤩 Paper finally out in the AER!
With my co-authors (incl. @bluebery-planterose.com & @s-stantcheva.bsky.social) we surveyed climate attitudes in 20 countries covering 72% of global emissions.
In brief, people want ambitious, global, and fair climate policies. A 🧵⬇️
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With my co-authors (incl. @bluebery-planterose.com & @s-stantcheva.bsky.social) we surveyed climate attitudes in 20 countries covering 72% of global emissions.
In brief, people want ambitious, global, and fair climate policies. A 🧵⬇️
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April 1, 2025 at 12:38 AM
🤩🤩 Paper finally out in the AER!
With my co-authors (incl. @bluebery-planterose.com & @s-stantcheva.bsky.social) we surveyed climate attitudes in 20 countries covering 72% of global emissions.
In brief, people want ambitious, global, and fair climate policies. A 🧵⬇️
www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
With my co-authors (incl. @bluebery-planterose.com & @s-stantcheva.bsky.social) we surveyed climate attitudes in 20 countries covering 72% of global emissions.
In brief, people want ambitious, global, and fair climate policies. A 🧵⬇️
www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
Come work with us! @thijsbouman.bsky.social is seeking a postdoc (3 years, full time) to investigate the pension sector: preferences, expectations & actions relevant to the sustainability transition among participants (people with a pension) & professionals (pension providers & investors)
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Postdoctoral Researcher Understanding personal and social factors that shape sustainability transitions in the (Dutch) pension and insurance sector - Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
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February 6, 2026 at 7:27 AM
Come work with us! @thijsbouman.bsky.social is seeking a postdoc (3 years, full time) to investigate the pension sector: preferences, expectations & actions relevant to the sustainability transition among participants (people with a pension) & professionals (pension providers & investors)
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@rug.nl
For project developers, informing #citizens and consulting them for feedback is often an afterthought. Our colleague Goda Perlaviciute has found that getting people involved from the earliest stages of a project and taking their input seriously can be a make or break approach for #acceptability.
To increase energy project acceptance, citizens need to be involved from the beginning
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February 4, 2026 at 11:19 AM
For project developers, informing #citizens and consulting them for feedback is often an afterthought. Our colleague Goda Perlaviciute has found that getting people involved from the earliest stages of a project and taking their input seriously can be a make or break approach for #acceptability.
When it comes to projects facilitating the #sustainable #transition, citizens's trust in a developer can derive from either their competence (experience) or their integrity (transparency and principles).
Our research has found that integrity-based trust makes a bigger difference, but both matter.
Our research has found that integrity-based trust makes a bigger difference, but both matter.
What is more trustworthy: integrity or competence?
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February 4, 2026 at 11:13 AM
When it comes to projects facilitating the #sustainable #transition, citizens's trust in a developer can derive from either their competence (experience) or their integrity (transparency and principles).
Our research has found that integrity-based trust makes a bigger difference, but both matter.
Our research has found that integrity-based trust makes a bigger difference, but both matter.
Design can drive socially-desirable behaviour change, so our colleagues tested whether environmentally-focused packaging designs promoted recycling. They found that intention to #recycle, and actual recycling, increased with stronger #biospheric values. gep.psychopen.eu/index.php/ge...
February 3, 2026 at 1:27 PM
Design can drive socially-desirable behaviour change, so our colleagues tested whether environmentally-focused packaging designs promoted recycling. They found that intention to #recycle, and actual recycling, increased with stronger #biospheric values. gep.psychopen.eu/index.php/ge...
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Repair cafés across Wales have helped prevent more than one million kilograms of carbon dioxide emissions by encouraging people to fix household items rather than replace them
Welsh repair cafés save over one million kilograms of carbon emissions
Amelia Jones Repair cafés across Wales have helped prevent more than one million kilograms of carbon dioxide emissions by encouraging people to fix household items rather than replace them. The figure...
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February 3, 2026 at 7:26 AM
Repair cafés across Wales have helped prevent more than one million kilograms of carbon dioxide emissions by encouraging people to fix household items rather than replace them
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Preventable suffering is both widespread and socially produced.
Preventable deaths in a warming world: how politics shapes who lives and who dies
Preventable suffering is both widespread and socially produced.
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February 2, 2026 at 1:28 PM
Preventable suffering is both widespread and socially produced.
On 12 February, Marino Bonaiuto & Alessandro Milani and Edina Doci will talk about how #psychology can contribute to #sustainability at work. Our colleagues Brian Wagner and Ellen van der Werff are co-organisers of this ongoing colloquium series: www.tu-braunschweig.de/psychologie/...
February 3, 2026 at 8:22 AM
On 12 February, Marino Bonaiuto & Alessandro Milani and Edina Doci will talk about how #psychology can contribute to #sustainability at work. Our colleagues Brian Wagner and Ellen van der Werff are co-organisers of this ongoing colloquium series: www.tu-braunschweig.de/psychologie/...