Motivating children to become green kids: The role of victim framing, moral emotions, and responsibility on children's pro-environmental behavioral intent

H Pearce, L Hudders, D Van de Sompel… - Environmental …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Today's children comprise the generation that will need to deal with the severe
consequences of climate change in the future. Hence, as stimulating children to grow up as …

They can and will: Preschoolers encourage pro-environmental behavior with rewards and punishments

C Hu, Z Wu - Journal of Environmental Psychology, 2022 - Elsevier
Although studies have shown that preschoolers can think pro-environmentally, whether they
can act pro-environmentally, especially at a personal cost, remains unexplored. We directly …

Children's environmental moral judgments: Variations according to type of victim and exposure to nature

S Collado, MA Sorrel - Journal of Environmental Psychology, 2019 - Elsevier
Human actions are largely responsible for environmental problems such as global warming
(Cook et al., 2013, Evans, 2018). It is therefore increasingly important to understand how …

Sustainability in youth: Environmental considerations in adolescence and their relationship to pro-environmental behavior

A Balundė, G Perlaviciute… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Adolescents today face the negative outcomes of climate change, and their pro-
environmental behavior is crucial to mitigate these negative outcomes. Yet, we know little …

Children-led environmental communication fosters their own and parents' conservation behavior

J Tian, Y Gong, Y Li, Y Sun, X Chen - Sustainable Production and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Carbon neutrality is one effective way to mitigate climate change, and it requires the efforts
of all sectors of society. Researchers have developed several communication strategies to …

Do children play fair with mother nature? Understanding children's judgments of environmentally harmful actions

KM Hussar, JC Horvath - Journal of Environmental Psychology, 2011 - Elsevier
The current study asks how young children judge behaviors that harm the environment as
compared to moral transgressions, social-conventional transgressions, and personal …

Using eco-guilt to motivate environmental behavior change

MM Moore, JZ Yang - Environmental Communication, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Informed by research on trait empathy and eco-guilt and their impacts on environmental
behaviors, this paper explores whether the themes from a pro-environment video game spur …

Empathy with nature promotes pro‐environmental attitudes in preschool children

Y Li, Y Zhao, Q Huang, J Deng, X Deng, J Li - PsyCh Journal, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
This study aimed to explore whether empathy with nature (ie, the tendency to understand
and share the emotional experience of the natural world) contributes to pro‐environmental …

Evaluations of pro-environmental behaviors by 7-month-old infants

A Geraci, L Franchin, S Benavides-Varela - Infant Behavior and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Environmental morality is the foundation of a sustainable future, yet its ontogenetic origin
remains unknown. In the present study, we asked whether 7-month-olds have a sense of …

Action, communication, and engagement: how parents “ACE” children's pro-environmental behaviors

F Jia, H Yu - Journal of Environmental Psychology, 2021 - Elsevier
Parents are important role models for directing children's learning toward pro-environmental
behaviors (PEBs; Grønhøj & Thøgersen, 2017). However, how children learn from their …