Our latest publications
- 11-09-2024
A social network approach to community energy initiative participation
This perspective paper argues how a social network approach can contribute to creating a more comprehensive picture of how individual and community characteristics influence participation in community energy initiatives (CEIs).
- 09-09-2024
Moral hypocrisy and the hedonic shift: A goal-framing approach
We find that there is such a thing as hedonic moral hypocrisy and that it is indeed brought about by hedonic shifts from cues in the environment. This seriously undermines the meaning of a normative consensus for norm conformity.
Featured publications
- 11-09-2024
A social network approach to community energy initiative participation
This perspective paper argues how a social network approach can contribute to creating a more comprehensive picture of how individual and community characteristics influence participation in community energy initiatives (CEIs).
- 09-09-2024
Moral hypocrisy and the hedonic shift: A goal-framing approach
We find that there is such a thing as hedonic moral hypocrisy and that it is indeed brought about by hedonic shifts from cues in the environment. This seriously undermines the meaning of a normative consensus for norm conformity.
- 15-08-2024
Are we on the same page? Understanding value similarity and its impact on public trust in institutions of the energy sector
Perceived value similarity and trust in institutions are higher when people perceive institutions to have stronger biospheric values than themselves and when they expect institutions to be less egoistic than themselves.
- 19-07-2024
Citizen assemblies should involve citizens as experts on their own values
Associate professor Goda Perlaviciute proposes a paradigm shift that creates explicit room for citizens’ values in citizen assemblies (CAs). Using concrete examples, she illustrates how every step of CAs could be transformed to elicit citizens’ values: from citizen selection, to setting the remit, facilitating the discussion, and shaping and institutionalizing policy recommendations.
- 14-06-2024
Energy citizenship as people’s perceived (collective) rights and responsibilities in a just and sustainable energy transition – scale development and validation
The aim of this paper is to develop and validate a scale to reliably measure people's level of energy citizenship.
- 13-06-2024
Do I Perceive That We as a Community Can Persist, Adapt Flexibly, and Positively Transform? The Relationship Between Collective Transilience and Community-Based Adaptation
Collective transilience reflects the extent to which people perceive they can persist, adapt flexibly, and positively transform as a community in the face of climate change.
- 03-05-2024
Accelerating social tipping points in sustainable behaviors: Insights from a dynamic model of moralized social change
In this Perspective, we propose a dynamic model of moralized social change that provides insights on how novel sustainable behaviors spread over society and how to speed up this process.
- 24-04-2024
Trusting the minister or trusting the mayor? Perceived competence and integrity of central and local Dutch institutions governing energy matters
Locally, institutions are seen as more honest and transparent, while nationally, they're perceived as more skilled and having more knowledge. Further, integrity-based trust in both local and national institutions better explained public support for phasing out natural gas than competence-based trust.
- 12-04-2024
Tasting and labeling meat substitute products can affect consumers’ product evaluations and preferences
In two field experiments, we tested how labeling and tasting experiences with meat substitutes affected omnivores’ evaluations of such products and investigated the latter’s stated and revealed preferences regarding the consumption of meat substitutes and reduction of meat consumption.
- 03-04-2024
Public opinion about solar radiation management: A cross-cultural study in 20 countries around the world
We report findings from the first large-scale, cross-cultural study on the public opinion about SRM among the general public (N = 2,248) and students (N = 4,583) in 20 countries covering all inhabited continents, including five countries from the Global South and five ‘non-WEIRD’ (i.e. not Western, Educated, Industrialised, Rich, and Democratic) countries from the Global North.
- 25-03-2024
Acceptability of connected automated vehicles: Attributes, perceived behavioural control, and perceived adoption norm
In this paper, we propose a model to explain the acceptability (i.e. evaluation before experience) of Connected Automated Vehicles. We hypothesize that the acceptability of CAVs is higher when people evaluate its attributes more favourably, feel more able to use CAVs (i.e. higher perceived behavioural control), and think close others would consider adopting CAVs (i.e. the perceived adoption norm).
- 28-02-2024
Exploring energy geography: Data insights on household consumption
Household energy consumption (HEC) varies across neighbourhoods and gender groups. This database provides raw and analysed data on HEC determinants and their estimated influence on HEC in 2707 residential neighbourhoods (Wijk) in the Netherlands in 2018.
- 14-12-2023
Circular consumption to reduce environmental pressure: Potential of behavioural change in the Netherlands
The transition towards a circular economy requires a change in what and how we consume. We argue that a realistic estimation of the environmental mitigation potential depends on 1) the environmental benefit that results from a certain circular behaviour, referred to as the ‘theoretical reduction potential’ (TRP), and 2) the behavioural plasticity, reflecting the share of consumers who are not yet engaging in the behaviour but would be willing to do so if circular goods and services are easily accessible and affordable.
- 28-11-2023
Exploration of children’s value patterns in relation to environmental education programmes
The present study aimed to investigate the relationships between children’s endorsement of biospheric values, their pro-environmental behaviors, and their perception of their friends’ and peers’ endorsement of biospheric values. Moreover, we investigated whether these values and behaviors, as well as the hypothesized relationships, were affected by educational programmes that were already implemented at schools.
Our publications
- 2024
Are we on the same page? Understanding value similarity and its impact on public trust in institutions of the energy sector
- 2024
Energy citizenship as people’s perceived (collective) rights and responsibilities in a just and sustainable energy transition – scale development and validation
- 2024
Do I Perceive That We as a Community Can Persist, Adapt Flexibly, and Positively Transform? The Relationship Between Collective Transilience and Community-Based Adaptation
- 2024
Accelerating social tipping points in sustainable behaviors: Insights from a dynamic model of moralized social change
- 2024
Trusting the minister or trusting the mayor? Perceived competence and integrity of central and local Dutch institutions governing energy matters
- 2024
Tasting and labeling meat substitute products can affect consumers’ product evaluations and preferences
- 2024
Public opinion about solar radiation management: A cross-cultural study in 20 countries around the world
- 2024
Acceptability of connected automated vehicles: Attributes, perceived behavioural control, and perceived adoption norm
- 2023
Circular consumption to reduce environmental pressure: Potential of behavioural change in the Netherlands
- 2023
Exploration of children’s value patterns in relation to environmental education programmes
- 2023
Are we on the same page? Exploring the relationships between environmental values, self-identity, personal norms and behavior in parent-adolescent dyads
- 2023
The group dynamics sparking social change: how group value in diversity predicts interactions with a deviant
- 2023
Time to talk about values, time to say no: What drives public participation in decision-making on abstract versus concrete energy projects?
- 2023
From believing in climate change to adapting to climate change: The role of risk perception and efficacy beliefs
- 2023
The role of partners, parents and friends in shaping young women’s reproductive choices in Peri-urban Nairobi: a qualitative study
- 2023
An interdisciplinary understanding of energy citizenship: Integrating psychological, legal, and economic perspectives on a citizen-centred sustainable energy transition
- 2023
Cooking a pro-veg*n social identity: the influence of vegan cooking workshops on children’s pro-veg*n social identities, attitudes, and dietary intentions
- 2023
The importance of user acceptance, support, and behaviour change for the implementation of decentralized water technologies
- 2023
Trust in institutions and public acceptability of risky energy production: Testing the causal relationships in the context of Groningen earthquakes
- 2022
Context matters: The role of perceived ease and feasibility vis-à-vis biospheric values in recycling behaviour
- 2022
A social network perspective on involvement in community energy initiatives: The role of direct and extended social ties to initiators
- 2022
A method to identify barriers to and enablers of implementing climate change mitigation options
- 2022
To select effective interventions for pro-environmental behaviour change, we need to consider determinants of behaviour
- 2022
Opposing out loud versus supporting in silence: who wants to participate in decision-making about energy projects?
- 2022
A spiral of (in)action: Empowering people to translate their values in climate action
- 2022
The Importance of Institutional Capacity and Negotiation Capacity in Affordable Housing Agreements: The Potential for Collective Action in Melbourne, Australia
- 2022
Corporate environmental responsibility leads to more pro-environmental behavior at work by strengthening intrinsic pro-environmental motivation
- 2022
Unequal means more unfair means more negative emotions? Ethical concerns and emotions about an unequal distribution of negative outcomes of a local energy project
- 2022
Designing for value-behaviour consistency: ethical choice architecture to stimulate sustainable meat purchase
- 2022
Adding Dynamic Norm to Environmental Information in Messages Promoting the Reduction of Meat Consumption
- 2022
Relationships between climate change perceptions and climate adaptation actions: policy support, information seeking, and behaviour
- 2022
The role of trust in public acceptability of energy projects: Integrity versus competence
- 2022
The role of trust in public acceptability of energy projects: Integrity versus competence
- 2022
The impact of COVID-19 related regulations and restrictions on mobility and potential for sustained climate mitigation across the Netherlands, Sweden and the UK
- 2022
Towards Circular Economy for More Sustainable Apparel Consumption: Testing the Value-Belief-Norm theory in Brazil and in The Netherlands
- 2022
Dietary behaviour as a form of collective action: A social identity model of vegan activism
- 2021
Demand-side solutions to climate change mitigation consistent with high levels of well-being
- 2021
Contested climate policies and the four Ds of public participation: From normative standards to what people want
- 2020
Engaging city residents in climate action: Addressing the personal and group value-base behind residents’ climate actions
- 2018
Can community energy initiatives motivate sustainable energy behaviours? The role of initiative involvement and personal pro-environmental motivation
- 2018
Beyond purchasing: Electric vehicle adoption motivation and consistent sustainable energy behaviour in The Netherlands
- 2018
Measuring Values in Environmental Research: A Test of an Environmental Portrait Value Questionnaire
- 2018
Emotional Responses to Energy Projects: Insights for Responsible Decision Making in a Sustainable Energy Transition
- 2018
Changing Household Energy Usage: The Downsides of Incentives and How to Overcome Them
- 2018
At the Heart of a Sustainable Energy Transition: The Public Acceptability of Energy Projects
- 2018