Environment (Sustainability)
Research Reports (from the Rochester SDT Labs)
- Weinstein, N., Przybylski, A. K., & Ryan, R. M. (2009). Can nature make us more caring? effects of immersion in nature on intrinsic aspirations and generosity. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 35, 1315-1329.
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Chapters, Overviews, and Commentaries (from the Rochester SDT Labs)
- Moller, A. C., Ryan, R. M., & Deci, E. L. (2006). Self-determination theory and public policy: Improving the quality of consumer decisions without using coercion. Journal of Public Policy & Marketing, 25, 104-116. Download this article (for Personal Use Only)
Research Reports (from Other Labs)
- Brown, K. W., & Kasser, T. (2005). Are psychological and ecological well-being compatible? the role of values, mindfulness, and lifestyle. Social Indicators Research, 74, 349-368. Download this article (for Personal Use Only)
- Osbaldiston, R., & Sheldon, K. M. (2003). Promoting internalized motivation for environmentally responsible behavior: A prospective study of environmental goals. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 23, 349-357. Download this article (for Personal Use Only)
- Koestner, R., Houlfort, N., Paquet, S., & Knight, C. (2001). On the risks of recycling because of guilt: An examination of the consequences of introjection. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 31, 2545-2560. Download this article (for Personal Use Only)
- Pelletier, L. G., Dion, S., Tuson, K. M., & Green-Demers, I. (1999). Why do people fail to adopt environmental behaviors? towards a taxonomy of environmental amotivation. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 29, 2481-2504. Download this article (for Personal Use Only)
- Levesque, C. S., Pelletier, L. G., & Hunsley, J. (1998). Toward a model of environmental activism. Environment and Behavior, 30, 628-652. Download this article (for Personal Use Only)
- Pelletier, L. G., Tuson, K., Green-Demers, I., Noels, K., & Beaton, A. (1998). Why are you doing things for the environment? the motivation toward the environment scale (mtes). Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 28, 437-468. Download this article (for Personal Use Only)
- Green-Demers, I., Pelletier, L. G., & Menard, S. (1997). The impact of behavioural difficulty on the saliency of the association between self-determined motivation and environmental behaviours. Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science, 29, 157-166. Download this article (for Personal Use Only)
Chapters, Overviews, and Commentaries (from Other Labs)
- Pelletier, L. G., & Sharp, E. (2008). Persuasive communication and proenvironmental behaviours: How message tailoring and message framing can improve integration of behaviors through self-determined motivation. Canadian Psychology, 49, 210-217. Download this article (for Personal Use Only)
- Villacorta, M., Koestner, R., & Lekes, N. (2003). Further validation of the motivation toward the environment scale. Environment and Behavior, 35, 486-505. Download this article (for Personal Use Only)
- Pelletier, L. G. (2002). A motivational analysis of self-determination for pro-environmental behaviors. In E. L. Deci, & R. M. Ryan (Eds.), Handbook of self-determination research (pp. 205-232). Rochester, NY: University Of Rochester Press.
