Why do cosmopolitan individuals tend to be more pro-environmentally committed? The mediating pathways via knowledge acquisition and emotional affinity toward nature

• Main Authors: Ito, Kenichi, Leung, Angela K.-Y., Huang, Tengjiao
• Other Authors: School of Social Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: Social sciences::Psychology; Cosmopolitan Orientation; Pro-environmentalism
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/138343
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Past research offered evidence that cosmopolitan individuals behave more pro-environmentally. The current study systematically examined two mechanisms explaining why. One the one hand, cosmopolitan individuals acquire knowledge about global challenges concerning environmental crises and become aware...