Department for the Research on Environmental Behavior

Scientific Articles of the Department

• Wealth as an obstacle and a support for environmental protection
  Wealthy populations appear prone to protecting the environment. By contrast, wealthy individuals appear prone to harming it. In other words, wealth appears to have opposing effects on the environmental protection efforts of individuals and populations. In our secondary analysis of Eurobarometer data (N = 27,998) from 28 countries, we demonstrate that wealth represents a behavioral benefit that supports populations' efforts to protect the environment (e.g., via government subsidies). Wealth also represents a behavioral benefit that supports individuals’ efforts to protect the environment (e.g., by making effective home insulation affordable), but it simultaneously represents a behavioral cost that appears to prevent individuals from protecting the environment (e.g., by making excessively large homes affordable). We conclude that when behavioral scientists recognize that wealth can be a cost and a benefit simultaneously, they will ultimately understand when and why populations and individuals engage in environmentally protective actions or fail to do so.
• Perception of natural ecosystems and urban greenery: Are we afraid of nature?
  Frouz, J., Píšová, M., Urban, J., (2022) European Journal of Environmental Sciences [online], 12(2), 86-89
• Environmental Attitudes in 28 European Countries Derived From Atheoretically Compiled Opinions and Self-Reports of Behavior
  Urban, J., Kaiser, F.G. (2022) Frontiers in Psychology [online], 13 (5.7.2022), 875419
• Dynamics and Management of Restored Forests in Post-Mining Sites with Respect to Their Recreation Value: A Matrix Growth Model
  Melichar, J., Cienciala, M., Albert, J., Braun Kohlová, M., Máca, V., Pavelčík, P. (2022) Forests, 13(9), 1519
• Are Trees Planted along the Roads Sustainable? A Large-Scale Study in the Czech Republic
  Mácová, K., Szórádová, A., Kolařík, J. (2022) Sustainability, 14(9), 5026
• A global experiment on motivating social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic
  Legate, N., Urban, J., Braun Kohlová, M. & 550 authors (2022) Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 119 (22), e2111091119
• Green consumption does not make people cheat: Three attempts to replicate moral licensing effect due to pro-environmental behavior
  Urban, J., Bahník, Š., Braun Kohlová, M. 2019. Green consumption does not make people cheat: Three attempts to replicate moral licensing effect due to pro-environmental behavior, Journal of Environmental Psychology, 63, 139-147. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2019.01.011.
• How Do Observable Characteristics of Post-Mining Forests Affect Their Attractiveness for Recreation?
  Braun Kohlova, M., Nepozitkova, P., Melichar, J. (2021) How Do Observable Characteristics of Post-Mining Forests Affect Their Attractiveness for Recreation? Land 2021, 10(9), 910; https://doi.org/10.3390/land10090910
• How High Is the Recreation Value of Successional Forests Growing Spontaneously on Coal Mine Spoil Heaps?
  Kohlova, MB., Maca, V., Melichar, J., Pavelcik, P. (2021) How High Is the Recreation Value of Successional Forests Growing Spontaneously on Coal Mine Spoil Heaps? Forests, 12 (2) https://doi.org/10.3390/f12020160
• The Climate Change Stage of Change Measure: Vehicle Choice Experiment
  Waygood, E.O.D., Wang, B., Daziano, R., Patterson, Z. and Braun Kohlová, M. (2021). The Climate Change Stage of Change Measure: Vehicle Choice Experiment. Journal of Environmental Planning and Management., https://doi.org/10.1080/09640568.2021.1913107
• A multi-country test of brief reappraisal interventions on emotions during the COVID-19 pandemic.
  Wang, K., Braun Kohlova, M., Urban, J. & 453 authors (2021). A multi-country test of brief reappraisal interventions on emotions during the COVID-19 pandemic. NATURE HUMAN BEHAVIOUR, 5 (8).  https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-021-01173-x
• Stochastic evaluation of restoration procedures on postmining land areas using a game theory approach
  Vach, M., Vachova, P., Walmsley, A., Berka, M., Albert, J., Cienciala, E., Kohlova, MB., Maca, V., Melichar, J. (2022) Stochastic evaluation of restoration procedures on postmining land areas using a game theory approach. LAND DEGRADATION & DEVELOPMENT, 33 (3)  https://doi.org/10.1002/ldr.4163
• Are Trees Planted along the Roads Sustainable? A Large-Scale Study in the Czech Republic
  Mácová K, Szórádová A, Kolařík J. Are Trees Planted along the Roads Sustainable? A Large-Scale Study in the Czech Republic. Sustainability. 2022; 14(9):5026.  https://doi.org/10.3390/su14095026
• The COVID-19 crisis does not diminish environmental motivation: Evidence from two panel studies of decision making and self-reported pro-environmental behavior.
  Urban, J., Braun Kohlová, M. (2022). The COVID-19 crisis does not diminish environmental motivation: Evidence from two panel studies of decision making and self-reported pro-environmental behavior. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 80, 101761,   https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2022.101761
• No Evidence of Within-Domain Moral Licensing in the Environmental Domain
  Urban, J., Braun Kohlová, M., & Bahník, Š. (2020). No Evidence of Within-Domain Moral Licensing in the Environmental Domain. Environment and Behavior,  Environment and Behavior.
• Buy green, gain prestige and social status
  Braun Kohlová, M., Urban, J.. (2020). Buy green, gain prestige and social status. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 69, June 2020, Temporary link, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2020.101416
• Increasing the influence of CO2 emissions information on car purchase