Bases teóricas que guían a la psicología de la conservación ambiental

  1. Víctor Corral Verdugo
  2. María del Carmen Aguilar Luzón
  3. Bernardo Hernández
Journal:
Papeles del psicólogo

ISSN: 0214-7823 1886-1415

Year of publication: 2019

Volume: 40

Issue: 3

Pages: 174-181

Type: Article

DOI: 10.23923/PAP.PSICOL2019.2897 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openOpen access editor

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Abstract

The aim of this paper is to present a brief review of the most relevant theories used to explain pro-environmental behavior. Scientific theories allow us to capture complex relationships, key to understanding real-world problems, and they facilitate the identification of the most important components involved in the explanation of these problems, in order to predict them in the future. Environmental behavior is approached based on what are known as long-range theories, that is, conceptual frameworks such as behaviorism, evolutionary psychology and cognitivism, which explain any type of behavior, as well as more specific theories focused on analyzing behaviors with environmental impact, including behavioral settings theory, the theory of affordances, and theories about the personenvironment relationship. This paper summarizes each of these theoretical approaches together with their main explanatory models

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