Environmentally Significant Behaviours. Understanding the Causes

Academic Paper from the year 2006 in the subject Psychology - Personality Psychology, grade: 2, , language: English, abstract: Investigating the causes of environmentally significant human behaviour, environmental psychology is a fairly new multidisciplinary science. Amongst others it has evolved from social psychology and has advanced to an integral approach of understanding individuals behaviour that directly or indirectly, noticed or unnoticed affects the natural environment and the dynamics of ecosystems. To overcome the gap of knowledge why people behave like they actually do, psychologists have drawn up models and theories