环境保护身份认同影响环境决策的心理加工机制

Psychological mechanism of how environmental self-identity impacts the environmental decision-making

已有研究大都采用量表来测量个体的环境保护身份认同,不同量表的测量结果和预测效果都存在着差异。由此,有必要从认知、动机、意志行动等加工阶段来探讨环境保护身份认同影响环境决策的心理加工机制。环境保护身份认同通过引发自我意识情绪来改变个体对环境决策带来收益的主观价值估计,促使个体出于自主动机依赖直觉式思维来作出环境决策。而且,环境保护意图到实际行动的转换受到个体过去做出的环保行为的影响。未来可以从前额叶皮质的不同区域在其中的神经机制、注意等基础认知过程对环境决策的各个特征维度的作用机制等方面入手,来探讨环境保护身份认同在环境决策中的作用机制。

The summary of the measurement tools for environmental self-identity indicates that self-identity goes through at least three stages, namely, cognition, motivation, and volition, to have impacts on individuals’ environmental decision-making. In the cognition process of environmental decision-making, self-conscious emotions can be easily triggered among individuals with a high level of environmental self-identity, which can be attributed to the benefits of environmental decision-making. Then, the autonomous motivation and intuitive thinking system in these individuals would be activated in the motivation process. In the volition process, past environmental behaviors remind individuals of what type of person they are and prompt them continue or discontinue their environmental protection. In the future, studies should explore the neural mechanism and some basic cognitive processes, such as attention.