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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
environmental science
Cross-Cultural Evidence for Spatial Bias in Beliefs About the Severity of Environmental Problems
Environment and Behavior, Volume 46, No. 3, Year 2014
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Description
Prior research has shown a tendency for environmental problems to be rated as more severe at the global level than at the local level. The present article reports reanalyses of a large cross-cultural data set (Study 1: k = 22, N = 3,277) and new cross-cultural data (Study 2: k = 8, N = 1,131) examining the prevalence of this spatial bias in the rated severity of environmental problems along with analyses of individual and country-level predictors of this bias. Results from multilevel modeling analyses showed that spatial bias was greater for happier and younger individuals and for those from smaller communities. We interpret these results as evidence for self-serving and "place-serving" biases in which the bias tempers the severity of environmental problems in one's local area. Considering the large cross-cultural evidence, we argue that spatial bias is a plausible candidate of a psychological universal identified by research in environmental psychology. © 2012 SAGE Publications.
Authors & Co-Authors
Schultz, Wesley P.
United States, San Marcos
California State University San Marcos
Milfont, Taciano L.
New Zealand, Wellington
Victoria University of Wellington
Chance, Randie C.
United States, Carbondale
Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Tronu, Giuseppe
Italy, Rome
Sapienza Università Di Roma
Luís, Sílvia
Portugal, Evora
University of Évora
Ando, Kaori
Japan, Nara
Nara Women's University
Rasool, Faiz
Pakistan, Karachi
University of Karachi
Roose, Pamela Linera
Argentina, Cordoba
Universidad Empresarial Siglo 21
Ogunbode, Charles Adedayo
Nigeria, Ibadan
University of Ibadan
Castro, Juana
Colombia, Bogota
Universidad de Los Andes, Colombia
Gouveia, Valdiney Veloso
Brazil, Joao Pessoa
Universidade Federal da Paraíba
Statistics
Citations: 96
Authors: 11
Affiliations: 11
Identifiers
Doi:
10.1177/0013916512458579
ISSN:
00139165
e-ISSN:
1552390X
Study Design
Cross Sectional Study