Do risk, time, and social preferences predict sustainable behavior? Evidence from a qualitative synthesis and meta-analysis
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21583545 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kristopher L Nichols (Princeton University), Johanna M Matt-Navarro (Princeton University), Maxim K Doiron (Princeton University), Giovanna d'Adda (University of Milan), Elke U Weber (0000-0002-1678-3631, Princeton University), Sara M Constantino (0000-0001-5533-5885, Princeton University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2026 |
| Volume | 242 |
| Pages | 108804 |
| Publication date | 2026-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Ecological Economics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0921-8009 • E-ISSN: 1873-6106 |
| Publisher | Elsevier BV (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2025.108804 |
| OpenAlex | W7115572446 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 126 |
Empirical evidence · Natural resource · Preference · Prosocial behavior · Social preferences · Sustainability · Sustainable development · Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics · Economic and Environmental Valuation · Environmental Education and Sustainability
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The Challenge of Common-Pool Resources
A Perfect Moral Storm
Valuing the Future
Domain Specificity in Experimental Measures and Participant Recruitment
Social Dilemmas
Dictator games
Environmental Values
Trust and cooperation
Why farmers adopt best management practice in the United States
Psychology of Climate Change
Estimating Time Preferences from Convex Budgets
Detection of Influential Observation in Linear Regression
Perceived Risk Attitudes
Adoption of agricultural conservation practices in the United States
The role of climate change risk perception, response efficacy, and psychological adaptation in pro-environmental behavior
Cooperating with the future
What do people bring into the game? Experiments in the field about cooperation in the commons
Risk Aversion and Incentive Effects
Bias in meta-analysis detected by a simple, graphical test
Quantifying heterogeneity in a meta‐analysis
Trust, Reciprocity, and Social History
Conducting Meta-Analyses in R with the metafor Package
Risk aversion and cleaner cooking fuel choice
Herders' risk preference and grassland transfer strategy
Perceived social green preference
Meta-analyses of factors motivating climate change adaptation behaviour
Time to Change What to Sow
Delay Discounting as an Index of Sustainable Behavior
Time preferences and the management of coral reef fisheries
Present bias predicts participation in payments for environmental services
Social Norms and Pro-environmental Behavior
Inferences from sparse data
Tenure security, private time preference, and use of natural resources among lowland Bolivian Amerindians
Risk preferences and purchase of energy-efficient technologies in the residential sector
Conditional cooperation, context and why strong rules work — A Namibian common-pool resource experiment
A more dynamic understanding of human behaviour for the Anthropocene
Cognition and behavior in context
What shapes perceptions of climate change? New research since 2010
Prisoners of the Wrong Dilemma
Risk preferences, risk perceptions and timber harvest decisions — An empirical study of nonindustrial private forest owners in northern Sweden
The prosocial origin of sustainable behavior
Do economic preferences predict pro-environmental behaviour
External validity of artefactual field experiments
Experimental Evidence on the Impact of Biodiversity Conservation Videos on Charitable Donations
Determinants of conservation among the rural poor
A domain‐specific risk‐attitude scale
Stated social behavior and revealed actions
Risk attitudes and economic well-being in Latin America
Farmers’ risk preferences and their climate change adaptation strategies in the Yongqiao District, China
From the Lab to the Field
The Behavioralist Meets the Market
Why Social Preferences Matter – the Impact of non‐Selfish Motives on Competition, Cooperation and Incentives
The dragons of inaction
Variables in experimental games
Valuing the Future
Prosocial Behavior
A Theory of Fairness, Competition, and Cooperation
What Do Laboratory Experiments Measuring Social Preferences Reveal About the Real World
The globalizability of temporal discounting
Breaking cognitive barriers to a sustainable future
Risk as feelings
Exploring External Validity of Common Pool Resource Experiments
Climate Change Demands Behavioral Change
Collective Action and the Evolution of Social Norms
A Behavioral Approach to the Rational Choice Theory of Collective Action
Analysis of Delay Discounting as a Psychological Measure of Sustainable Behavior
Social Dilemmas
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |