Environment 2.0 : the 9th Biennial Conference on Environmental Psychology, 26-28 September 2011, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands Citation for published version (APA): Haans, A., Gennip, van, D. A. P., Ham, J. R. C., Kort, de, Y. A. W., & Midden, C. J. H. (Eds.) (2011). Environment 2.0 : the 9th Biennial Conference on Environmental Psychology, 26-28 September 2011, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands. Eindhoven University of Technology. Document status and date: Published: 01/01/2011 Document Version: Publisher’s PDF, also known as Version of Record (includes final page, issue and volume numbers) Please check the document version of this publication: • A submitted manuscript is the version of the article upon submission and before peer-review. There can be important differences between the submitted version and the official published version of record. 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Copyright held by respective authors On behalf of the Environmental Psychology Division of the German Association of Psychology, the 9th Biennial International Conference on Environmental Psychology is organized by the Human- Technology Interaction (HTI) group of the School of Innovation Sciences of the Eindhoven University of Technology. The HTI group is internationally acclaimed for perception research, and has become established as a major centre of excellence in human-technology interaction research. Bringing together psychological and engineering expertise, its central mission is investigating and optimizing interactions between people, systems, and environments, in the service of a socially and ecologically sustainable society. Foreword We are happy and proud to present to you Environment 2.0, the 9th biennial conference on environmental psychology. Thanks to all your contributions we have been able to compose a highly attractive program, promising an exciting conference. We have been overwhelmed by the interest our call raised receiving over 250 submissions for oral presentations, a new record. This splendid harvest shows the strength and vitality of the field of environmental psychology and the fast growing significance of the biennial conferences, which have developed into a major meeting place for researchers from all over the world. We feel honored that we can welcome over 325 participants from more than 25 different countries. The great interest shown also brought along some limitations. Unavoidably the review committee was forced to be more selective than in previous meetings. We had to make some difficult decisions. Fortunately the judgments of many independent reviewers helped us a lot. We are very grateful for their thoughtful contributions. This year's special conference theme is Environment2.0. The call for papers was centered around the question whether we as environmental psychologists are sufficiently aware of the fact that a layer of information and communication technology is augmenting our physical and social worlds. Moreover, increasingly advanced communication and interaction technologies are offering us new ways to investigate and change person-environment interaction. We were happy to see quite a number of submissions around this topic. The keynote lecture of prof Wijnand IJsselsteijn is also directly related to this theme. The keynote by prof Robert Cialdini relates to the theme of behaviour change, one of the core topics in environmental psychology today. With our third keynote lecture, by prof Eus van Someren we wanted to open yet another new perspective on how environment, human behaviour, and human wellbeing are interconnected. On behalf of the organizing committee, I welcome you to Eindhoven and wish you a most stimulating, inspiring and memorable conference, Cees Midden Conference Chair Organizing committee: Antal Haans, Jaap Ham, Yvonne de Kort, Ellen de Bree Think local, act global? Predicting neighbourhood attachment and its impact on global environmental concern Andrea Petmecky FernUniversität in Hagen, Hagen, Germany Neighbourhood attachment as part of the The survey strives for three goals: more general place attachment concept is defined as positive bond to the residential (1) to explore if the two samples differ environment of individuals and supports in essential concepts of the survey identity and various psychological benefits (residential quality, place (Brown, Perkins & Brown, 2003). attachment and environmental concern) In opposition to the paradigm of United (2) to examine which factors influence Nations Conference on Environment and neighbourhood attachment Development (UNCED) Agenda 21 (3) to analyse if neighbourhood programme (“Think global, act local”), this attachment act itself as a predictor study investigates the relationship between for global environmental concern. neighbourhood attachment (“Think local”) and global environmental concern (“Act The respondents of study 2 showed higher global”). sumscores with respect to all essential concepts of the survey, but only the Place attachment and associated concepts difference respect place attachment is such as sense of place, place affect, place significant (p<.001). As expected, the dependence or place identity are elements of perceived residential quality contributed to various theoretical and/or empirical research the explanation of neighbourhood in environmental psychology and other attachment. Concerning socio-demographic disciplines. A conceptual framework which indicators neighbourhood attachment was integrates the different types and terms of only influenced by city size and car place attachment theories is still missing availableness. A correlation between (Devine-Wright & Clayton, 2010). Empirical neighbourhood attachment and studies identified possible predictors for environmental concern could only be found place attachment (with partly inconsistent concerning civic engagement in results) and investigated if place attachment environmental ambit, not for the more is a possible criterion for other attitudes general environmental concern concept. The and/or behaviours. discussion reports detailed results of the two samples and the essential concepts of the The present study focuses on survey and argues about methods and neighbourhood attachment and contains two limitations of this study. samples: In a web-based survey 789 students References aged between 15 and 68 completed questionnaires to collect perceived Brown, B., Perkins, D.D. & Brown, G. (2003). Place environmental quality, neighbourhood attachment in a revitalizing neighborhood: Individual and block levels of analysis. Journal of attachment and global environmental concern Environmental Psychology, 23, 259-271. (study 1). Additionally, 75 residents of a car- Devine-Wright, P. & Clayton, S. (2010). Introduction free urban residential district in Cologne to the special issue: Place, identity and filled in similar questionnaires in a classic environmental behaviour. Journal of paper & pencil-version (study 2). Environmental Psychology, 30, 267-270. Commitment and Behavior Change: A Meta-analysis and Critical Review of Commitment Making Strategies in Environmental Research A. M. Lokhorst1, C. Werner2, H. Staats³, & E. van Dijk³ 1 Wageningen University, Wageningen, the Netherlands 2University of Utah, Salt Lake City, United States ³Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands Commitment making is commonly regarded 2001), norms (Abrahamse, Steg, Vlek, & as an effective way to promote pro- Rothengatter, 2005), and an attitudinal environmental behaviors (Dwyer et al., approach (Werner et al., 1995). These 1993). The general idea is that when people mechanisms are conceptually and commit to a certain behavior, they adhere to theoretically distinct, but may complement