心理学
任务(项目管理)
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虚拟机
晋升(国际象棋)
自然实验
社会心理学
电子游戏
认知心理学
应用心理学
计算机科学
多媒体
政治
统计
操作系统
经济
管理
法学
数学
政治学
作者
Florian Lange,Maarten Truyens
标识
DOI:10.1016/j.jenvp.2022.101803
摘要
Exposure to (virtual) nature may play a critical role in the promotion of pro-environmental behavior. Prior experimental work presenting participants with natural scenes has produced promising, but not fully conclusive results. Here, we studied the effect of virtual nature exposure on performance in a validated and fully consequential experimental model of effortful pro-environmental behavior. In Study 1, participants (N = 256) watched a video featuring either natural or urban scenes before completing the Work for Environmental Protection Task. Participants watching the nature video spent more pro-environmental effort on that task than participants watching the urban video. However, we were not able to distinguish if this difference resulted from a positive effect of nature exposure or from a negative effect of watching the urban video. To address this limitation, we designed a second study (N = 803) involving additional control conditions. Study 2 did not find the nature video to significantly promote effortful pro-environmental behavior in comparison to watching a neutral video or no video at all, nor did it replicate the nature-urban difference found in Study 1. The available evidence is compatible with the effect of virtual nature exposure on (effortful) pro-environmental behavior being either small, null, or moderated by methodological differences between the studies.
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