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{"title":"Concordance between psychological and physiological measures of nature contact's mental benefits: A systematic review and exploratory synthesis","authors":"Xiaojie Du , Shuai Yuan , Tommy L.H. Lam , Matthew H.E.M. Browning , Zheng Tan","doi":"10.1016/j.jenvp.2025.102863","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jenvp.2025.102863","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48439,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Psychology","volume":"109 ","pages":"Article 102863"},"PeriodicalIF":7.0,"publicationDate":"2025-11-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145790298","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A deep dive below the human surface: The effect of basic human values on coastal residents' and tourists’ marine personal norm, mediated by marine value orientations","authors":"Catho Vermeulen ,&nbsp;Veroline Cauberghe ,&nbsp;Thijs Bouman ,&nbsp;Sara Vandamme","doi":"10.1016/j.jenvp.2025.102865","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jenvp.2025.102865","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Marine environments are essential for both humans and nature. To promote their protection, it is crucial to understand how people value these environments and how this relates to their sense of personal responsibility to protect marine environments (i.e., marine personal norm). Two typologies of values are particularly relevant: basic human values, which represent what people generally find meaningful in life, and marine value orientations, which reflect what individuals deem important about the marine environment. We reason that basic human values and marine value orientations are distinct yet related constructs, and hypothesise that basic human values, via marine value orientations, predict the marine personal norm. Despite providing key insights into how abstract values translate to more concrete beliefs about actions, these associations have hardly been researched. To address this identified research gap, this study employed a large-scale survey of 1477 Belgian participants, including 815 tourists and 662 coastal residents.</div><div>Linear regression analyses revealed that basic human values and marine value orientations were indeed related but distinct constructs, each being correlated with each other, but also contributing to the explanation of the marine personal norm. Specifically, a multi-group structural equation modelling (SEM) analysis showed that individuals with stronger biospheric or altruistic values (i.e., concern for nature and others) held a stronger marine personal norm. Moreover, this relationship was (partially) mediated by heightened intrinsic and nature-relational value orientations (valuing the sea's intrinsic worth and people's connection to it, respectively). Furthermore, stronger hedonic values (i.e., concern for pleasure and comfort) were also indicative of a stronger marine personal norm, and this relationship was fully mediated by strengthened nature-relational value orientations. Additional relationships between basic human values and value orientations were found, but these did not extend to the marine personal norm. Although residents scored significantly higher than tourists on biospheric values, all marine value orientations, and the personal norm, the conceptual framework with its relationships was consistent across residents and tourists. This research enhances theoretical understanding of how basic human values and value orientations relate to each other and to feelings of responsibility to protect marine environments. In addition, it provides practical insights for engaging the public in marine conservation efforts.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48439,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Psychology","volume":"109 ","pages":"Article 102865"},"PeriodicalIF":7.0,"publicationDate":"2025-11-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145790297","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Children and adults across 15 countries believe in human uniqueness of mind: a cross-cultural investigation of cross-species mind perception","authors":"Karri Neldner ,&nbsp;Luke Maurits ,&nbsp;Magie Junker ,&nbsp;Lara Abbas ,&nbsp;Nayrouz Abbas ,&nbsp;Arianna Abis ,&nbsp;Federica Amici ,&nbsp;Bernardo Arroyo-Garcia ,&nbsp;Negar Asghari ,&nbsp;Giovanna Barragán Pardo ,&nbsp;Zhen Zhang ,&nbsp;Junior Peña Chumacero ,&nbsp;Ardain Dzabatou ,&nbsp;Dustin Eirdosh ,&nbsp;Susan Hanisch ,&nbsp;Tom Herrnsdorf ,&nbsp;Tom Hovehne ,&nbsp;Alicia Junker ,&nbsp;Patricia Kanngiesser ,&nbsp;Felipe Villa Larens ,&nbsp;Katja Liebal","doi":"10.1016/j.jenvp.2025.102861","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jenvp.2025.102861","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The way humans relate to other animals is fundamentally shaped by whether we perceive ourselves as unique, with feelings and thoughts not shared by other animals. How beliefs about animals’ ability to feel and think develop across cultures remains largely unexplored. We asked children and adolescents (4–17 years, <em>N</em> = 1025) and adults (<em>N</em> = 190) from 33 urban and rural communities across 15 countries whether animals have thoughts or feelings (judgments of presence), and whether those thoughts or feelings are human-like (judgments of similarity). Bayesian analyses revealed that participants generally ascribed non-human animals the ability for thoughts and feelings. However, they universally denied that animals have human-like thoughts, with these beliefs emerging early in development across all societies and remaining stable across the lifespan. There was more cultural variation found in whether participants attributed human-like feelings to animals. Human mental exceptionalism appears to be a human universal and is restricted to human-like thoughts. Implications for human-animal relationships and ethical considerations for the treatment and conservation of other animals are discussed.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48439,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Psychology","volume":"109 ","pages":"Article 102861"},"PeriodicalIF":7.0,"publicationDate":"2025-11-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145737584","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"When the means are no dead end: Effects of witnessing direct collective action for traffic transformation","authors":"Frank Eckerle ,&nbsp;Edward J.R. Clarke ,&nbsp;Helen Landmann","doi":"10.1016/j.jenvp.2025.102851","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jenvp.2025.102851","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Embedded in the contested space of traffic transformation, we compare the effects of two types of confrontative action on bystanders: direct actions in which means and ends align (e.g., marking cycle paths) and non-direct actions in which the ends justify the means (e.g., blocking parking space with art). We expected that direct actions which successfully communicate a utopian vision can increase access to desirable cognitive alternatives in observers; a so-called “prefigurative effect”. We hypothesized that direct actions with this prefigurative effect (versus comparable non-direct actions) will be more strongly supported, perceived as more legitimate and efficacious, elicit less negative and more positive emotions, and lead to a higher propensity to participate in and stronger solidarity with the movement. We also investigated downstream effects on perceptions of a traffic-reduced future and policy support. To test our hypotheses, we conducted two pre-registered online experiments in Germany (<em>N</em>_total = 645), in which we varied direct vs. non-direct version of a bicycle, parking, and automobility action. In both studies, the direct bicycle and direct parking actions increased access to cognitive alternatives but only the direct bicycle action consistently increased hope, support for the activists, and support for the action. This suggests that confrontative collective action which is (perceived to be) direct and prefigurative is more likely to elicit positive reactions than when it is not, although there seem to be additional factors at play. Taken together, our results speak to the value of embracing direct action and prefigurative politics both in research and practice.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48439,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Psychology","volume":"110 ","pages":"Article 102851"},"PeriodicalIF":7.0,"publicationDate":"2025-11-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146173207","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The neuropsychological correlates of urban navigation: A meta-analysis of 27 years of functional neuroimaging studies","authors":"Donato Liloia ,&nbsp;Gabriele Filomena","doi":"10.1016/j.jenvp.2025.102857","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jenvp.2025.102857","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Navigation in urban environments requires high-order cognitive processes and flexible spatial strategies to handle their structural complexity and rich sensory inputs. Despite extensive psychobiological research, the precise large-scale neural substrates supporting spatial navigation in urban environments remain only partially understood, also due to methodological variability across studies. Advances in functional neuroimaging have enabled the detailed mapping of brain activity during navigation, highlighting the role of the hippocampal-entorhinal system. However, additional cortical and subcortical areas are implicated, reflecting the multifaceted nature of urban wayfinding involving route- and survey-based strategies. This meta-analysis synthesises 27 years of task-based functional magnetic resonance imaging and positron emission tomography research by analysing 26 experimental contrasts with 296 healthy adults performing urban navigation tasks. Using the Signed Differential Mapping-Permutation of Subject Images method, we identified a consistent neural network encompassing bilateral median cingulate cortex, supplementary motor areas, parahippocampal gyri, hippocampi, retrosplenial cortex, precuneus, prefrontal regions, cerebellar lobule VI, and striatum. Sub-analyses revealed both common and distinct activations for route- and survey-based navigation strategies. In addition to common engagement of the parahippocampal place area and retrosplenial cortex, route-based strategies recruited the right inferior frontal gyrus, whereas survey-based strategies showed activations in the thalamus and insula. No significant influence of sex, age, or sample size was found. These findings advance understanding of how the brain supports navigation in complex urban settings and highlight possible targets for future research into spatial deficits and the development of navigational aids.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48439,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Psychology","volume":"110 ","pages":"Article 102857"},"PeriodicalIF":7.0,"publicationDate":"2025-11-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146023432","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Re-evaluating the ‘who’ in environmentalism using latent profile analysis","authors":"Ava Disney ,&nbsp;Kelly S. Fielding ,&nbsp;Winnifred R. Louis","doi":"10.1016/j.jenvp.2025.102848","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jenvp.2025.102848","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Understanding who is currently (dis)engaged with environmental issues is important in targeting efforts to increase the momentum of environmentalism. However, previous research examining the sociodemographic groups associated with environmental (dis)engagement has produced inconsistent results. We contend that one reason for these inconsistencies is that the linear relationships between environmental engagement and independent sociodemographic groups that have been analysed in conventional approaches (e.g., regression) do not capture the roles of non-monotonic relationships and intersectional sociodemographic groups. To address these limitations of past research, we conducted latent profile analyses using data from Australia (<em>N</em> = 1074), New Zealand (<em>N</em> = 969) and the United States (<em>N</em> = 1780) to understand how groups differ in their environmental beliefs, attitudes, and behaviours. We found that the most engaged and least engaged subgroups across all three countries are consistent with past research: an <em>Environmental Activists</em> profile associated with left-leaning, highly educated, White women; and a <em>Disengaged Skeptics</em> profile associated with right-leaning, older, less educated, White men. Going beyond the findings of past research, our latent profile analyses reveal a number of profiles with comparatively <em>moderate</em> levels of environmental engagement and conflicting attitudes and actions, associated with younger people, parents, and people of colour or with immigrant backgrounds. We discuss the theoretical implications of our novel findings for past research and the practical implications of our findings for strategic pro-environmental campaigns.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48439,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Psychology","volume":"108 ","pages":"Article 102848"},"PeriodicalIF":7.0,"publicationDate":"2025-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145528897","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Nature contact increases reliance on feelings in decision-making","authors":"Heqing Huang,&nbsp;Jiangang Du","doi":"10.1016/j.jenvp.2025.102847","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jenvp.2025.102847","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Urbanization has increased individuals' desire to connect with nature, but how nature influences individuals' decision-making strategies is poorly understood. Through five experiments and a secondary data analysis, we show that individuals in natural environments rely more on feelings rather than reasons in their decision-making processes, compared to those in built environments. This, in turn, makes individuals more likely to be persuaded by affectively appealing information and become more susceptible to momentary emotional inputs. Self-authenticity is the underlying mechanism driving this effect. This research contributes to the literature on nature contact and individuals' decision-making strategies.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48439,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Psychology","volume":"108 ","pages":"Article 102847"},"PeriodicalIF":7.0,"publicationDate":"2025-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145528311","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Anthropocentrism and short-termism in (international) legal definitions of ecocide – An experimental approach","authors":"Izabela Skoczeń ,&nbsp;Benedikt Pirker","doi":"10.1016/j.jenvp.2025.102838","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jenvp.2025.102838","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>An Independent Expert Panel recently proposed amending the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court to include the crime of ‘ecocide’ (the mass destruction of the environment). However, according to international law experts, its definition of ecocide is expected to fall prey to two biases. First, anthropocentrism understood as the mechanism of overestimating human benefit and underestimating environmental cost. Second, short-termism or temporal discounting of environmental risks, understood as the preference for immediate benefits at the expense of long-term gains. The disputed part of the definition is the proportionality test in the form of a cost-benefit analysis, which we argue to be subject to the affect heuristic.</div><div>Some experts have suggested lowering the required mental state (mens rea) threshold in the definition from intent and knowledge to recklessness and negligence. In three experiments (<em>N</em> = 919), we find that the two biases indeed affect the ascriptions of mental states, proportionality and responsibility based on the current phrasing of the definition. Thus, in line with previous research in environmental psychology, we find that moral emotions impact environmental judgement.</div><div>We also find that mentioning future generations, as well as their harm in the form of lack of access to drinkable water (resource dilemma), constitutes an effective countermeasure to the bias. Finally, we find that lowering the mens rea threshold alleviates probative difficulties and helps reduce bias. We propose replacing the cost-benefit analysis in the proportionality test with an impact assessment tool.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48439,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Psychology","volume":"108 ","pages":"Article 102838"},"PeriodicalIF":7.0,"publicationDate":"2025-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145579332","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Climate impact perceptions and associations with reported behaviors and policy support in three countries","authors":"Nina L. Frings ,&nbsp;Kristian S. Nielsen ,&nbsp;Zahra Rahmani Azad ,&nbsp;Ulf J.J. Hahnel","doi":"10.1016/j.jenvp.2025.102841","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jenvp.2025.102841","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>To accelerate climate change mitigation, substantial lifestyle changes and more ambitious climate policies are urgently needed. However, realizing behavior changes is challenged by widespread misperceptions about the relative climate impact of different behaviors, making it difficult even for motivated individuals to identify which actions to prioritize and which policies to support. Little is known about the cross-national variability of such impact perceptions and their association with climate-relevant outcomes. We aim to address this gap with a pre-registered cross-country study (<em>N</em> = 2742) in China, Germany, and the United States. Using a novel experimental paradigm, we investigated carbon footprint accuracy (how accurately individuals judge the objective size of carbon footprints) and impact perceptions (the perceived contribution of specific behaviors to carbon footprints). We then examined associations between these two constructs and self-reported climate-related behavior and support for behavior-targeted climate policies. Across the three countries, participants showed low accuracy in estimating carbon footprints and underestimated the impact of carbon-intensive behaviors on those footprints. Despite prevalent behavior-specific misperceptions, the impact perceptions of different behaviors were independent of each other, showing no evidence for compensatory judgments. Participants’ carbon footprint accuracy and impact perceptions were associated with corresponding self-reported behavior across all countries. However, the association between impact perceptions and climate policy support varied across countries, with impact perceptions having a direct effect in Germany, no effect in China, and a moderated effect by political orientation in the United States. Our study highlights the need for cross-national research to further uncover which contexts foster (in)accurate behavioral knowledge and corresponding climate-friendly behavior.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48439,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Psychology","volume":"108 ","pages":"Article 102841"},"PeriodicalIF":7.0,"publicationDate":"2025-11-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145474795","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Mental health impact of adverse housing conditions on children and young people: A systematic review","authors":"Jessica E. Mitchell ,&nbsp;Lauren Ferguson ,&nbsp;Phil Symonds ,&nbsp;Pia Hardelid","doi":"10.1016/j.jenvp.2025.102846","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jenvp.2025.102846","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Background</h3><div>There is increasing evidence that various components of adverse housing conditions may influence mental health outcomes for children and young people. A comprehensive review whether, and to what extent these exposures impact on children and young people's mental health is missing from the literature.</div></div><div><h3>Objectives</h3><div>To conduct a systematic review of the evidence regarding the association between adverse housing conditions (excluding homelessness) and mental health in children and young people aged 2–24 years.</div></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><div>We searched peer-reviewed literature for relevant quantitative studies in electronic databases (MEDLINE, Embase, and PsycINFO), grey literature, and reference lists of identified articles published in English from January 2000. Risk of bias was assessed using the Navigation Guide, and results were described via a narrative synthesis.</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>Thirty-four studies spanning 18 countries met our inclusion criteria. Adverse housing conditions were indicated by overcrowding, poor facilities or structural quality, no access to natural space at home (e.g., private or shared garden or balcony), energy poverty, mould or damp, indoor air pollution, and indoor noise. Children and young people's mental health was measured by self- or caregiver-reported emotional and behavioural problems, depression, stress, general well-being, quality of life (QoL), social competence, hyperactivity or inattention, and autism spectrum disorder (ASD) symptoms. Thirty-one of 34 studies (91.2 %) were rated as \"low” to “probably high” risk of bias. Twenty-seven studies (79.4 %) found that adverse housing conditions were associated with mental health difficulties including emotional and behavioural problems, depression, hyperactivity symptoms and ASD symptoms, and reduced mental health competence in children and young people. Evidence predominantly suggests that overcrowding and mould or damp exposures are significantly associated with mental health problems.</div></div><div><h3>Discussion</h3><div>Adverse housing conditions have a negative impact on children and young people's mental health, particularly on emotional or behavioural problems and mental well-being. Future studies should use standardised and objective measures of adverse housing exposures and cohort study designs to determine any critical or sensitive periods of exposure. Policies to improve housing for families with children are likely to have mental health benefits for children and young people.</div><div>Funding and registration: None; registered at PROSPERO: CRD42022373171.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48439,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Psychology","volume":"108 ","pages":"Article 102846"},"PeriodicalIF":7.0,"publicationDate":"2025-11-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145579334","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}