Scholarly article

Mind Attribution to Nature and Proenvironmental Behavior

Kim-Pong Tam

2015

Findings of this study suggest a new approach to understanding how humans relate to the natural world, showing that those that attribute a mind to nature tend to empathize with nature more and act in a more pro-environmental manner than those that don’t.

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Tags:

  • animal wellbeing
  • anthropomorphism
  • behavior change

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