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Irregular stimulus distribution increases the negative footprint illusion
As a climate change mitigation strategy, environmentally certified ‘green’ buildings with low carbon footprints are becoming more prevalent in the world. An interesting psychological question is how people perceive the carbon footprint of these buildings given their spatial distributions in a given...
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2022
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9790322/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35607836 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/sjop.12829 |
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author | Sörqvist, Patrik Volna, Iveta Zhao, Jiaying Marsh, John E. |
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description | As a climate change mitigation strategy, environmentally certified ‘green’ buildings with low carbon footprints are becoming more prevalent in the world. An interesting psychological question is how people perceive the carbon footprint of these buildings given their spatial distributions in a given community. Here we examine whether regular distribution (i.e., buildings organized in a block) or irregular distribution (i.e., buildings randomly distributed) influences people's perception of the carbon footprint of the communities. We first replicated the negative footprint illusion, the tendency to estimate a lower carbon footprint of a combined group of environmentally certified green buildings and ordinary conventional buildings, than the carbon footprint of the conventional buildings alone. Importantly, we found that irregular distribution of the buildings increased the magnitude of the negative footprint illusion. Potential applied implications for urban planning of green buildings are discussed. |
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spelling | pubmed-97903222022-12-28 Irregular stimulus distribution increases the negative footprint illusion Sörqvist, Patrik Volna, Iveta Zhao, Jiaying Marsh, John E. Scand J Psychol Personality and Social Psychology As a climate change mitigation strategy, environmentally certified ‘green’ buildings with low carbon footprints are becoming more prevalent in the world. An interesting psychological question is how people perceive the carbon footprint of these buildings given their spatial distributions in a given community. Here we examine whether regular distribution (i.e., buildings organized in a block) or irregular distribution (i.e., buildings randomly distributed) influences people's perception of the carbon footprint of the communities. We first replicated the negative footprint illusion, the tendency to estimate a lower carbon footprint of a combined group of environmentally certified green buildings and ordinary conventional buildings, than the carbon footprint of the conventional buildings alone. Importantly, we found that irregular distribution of the buildings increased the magnitude of the negative footprint illusion. Potential applied implications for urban planning of green buildings are discussed. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2022-05-24 2022-10 /pmc/articles/PMC9790322/ /pubmed/35607836 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/sjop.12829 Text en © 2022 The Authors. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology published by Scandinavian Psychological Associations and John Wiley & Sons Ltd. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited and is not used for commercial purposes. |
spellingShingle | Personality and Social Psychology Sörqvist, Patrik Volna, Iveta Zhao, Jiaying Marsh, John E. Irregular stimulus distribution increases the negative footprint illusion |
title | Irregular stimulus distribution increases the negative footprint illusion |
title_full | Irregular stimulus distribution increases the negative footprint illusion |
title_fullStr | Irregular stimulus distribution increases the negative footprint illusion |
title_full_unstemmed | Irregular stimulus distribution increases the negative footprint illusion |
title_short | Irregular stimulus distribution increases the negative footprint illusion |
title_sort | irregular stimulus distribution increases the negative footprint illusion |
topic | Personality and Social Psychology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9790322/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35607836 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/sjop.12829 |
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