Stepan Vesely
Biographic Data
| ID | 2349429 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stepan Vesely |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stepan |
| FAMILY NAME | Vesely |
| SIGNATURE | VESELY S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Norwegian University of Science and Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9056-5368 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 28 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Mechanisms of Pro-Environmental Behavioural Spillover
If one pro-environmental behaviour (PEB) influences subsequent behaviours, this spillover effect holds significant implications for environmental policies. This paper systematically examines the psychological mechanisms underpinning PEB spillover by testing a comprehensive set of mediators within the same empirical framework. Studies were conducted in Norway ( N = 1,574) and Germany ( N = 1,938), using correlational and experimental designs. The …
Motivating Sustainable Lifestyles
Behavioural interventions using smartphones are increasing, yet limited research has examined the psychological drivers and barriers to adopting sustainable behaviours through mobile app‐mediated interventions. This study investigates how anticipated emotions and psychological reactance, in tandem with the Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB) constructs, shape individuals' willingness to accept sustainable lifestyle practices (‘Challenges’) delivere…
Smart thermostats, washing machines, and electric vehicle charging
Data from three stated choice experiments conducted in Germany and Spain with over 2500 participants provide new evidence on the determinants of consumer preferences for smart thermostats, smart electric vehicle charging, and smart scheduling of washing machine operation. Our findings reveal that across the three technologies, financial savings, the opportunity to consume energy generated from renewables, and technological benefits, such as vehic…
Evidence on environmentally conscious consumers’ preferences for energy-use automation in Germany and Spain
Addressing climate change with behavioral science
Effectively reducing climate change requires marked, global behavior change. However, it is unclear which strategies are most likely to motivate people to change their climate beliefs and behaviors. Here, we tested 11 expert-crowdsourced interventions on four climate mitigation outcomes: beliefs, policy support, information sharing intention, and an effortful tree-planting behavioral task. Across 59,440 participants from 63 countries, the interve…
Patterns of household electricity consumption in Norway as a function of psychological factors, socio-economic constellations and access to electric appliances
To explore the complexity of household living conditions and their relation to electricity consumption, the socio-technical constellations they create for themselves and the perceived ease of saving electricity, we conducted a clustering analysis to categorise Norwegian participants in an electricity-saving programme based on environmental concerns, personal norms and socio-economic parameters. We also explored if the household clusters differed …
Can competing demands affect pro-environmental behaviour
Climate change action as a project of identity
Identity can improve our understanding of personal climate action, particularly when climate action becomes an expression of a person’s self. However, it is unclear which kind of self or identity is most relevant. Building on a comprehensive series of eight meta-analyses (using data from 188 published articles, N = 414,282 participants) this research systematically compares how strongly climate-friendly intentions and behaviors are associated wit…
Donations to renewable energy projects
This paper shows that interventions based on social norms and on increasing the visibility of people's decisions to others (“decision observability”) present promising pathways of generating public support for renewable energy development. In a laboratory experiment (n = 300), we show that social norms and decision observability increase support for renewable energy, even at a financial cost to oneself: When exposed to pro-environmental social no…
Social Desirability in Environmental Psychology Research
That social desirability might be a confounder of people's survey responses regarding environmental actions has been discussed for a long time. To produce evidence for or against this assumption, we conducted meta-analyses of correlations between social desirability scales and self-reports of environmentally relevant behaviors, intentions, and (broadly defined) attitudes, based on data from 29 previously published papers. The pooled correlations …
Climate change action as a project of identity
Identity can improve our understanding of personal climate action, particularly when climate action becomes an expression of a person’s self. However, it is unclear which kind of self or identity is most relevant. Building on a comprehensive series of eight meta-analyses (using data from 188 published articles, N = 414,282 participants) this research systematically compares how strongly climate-friendly intentions and behaviors are associated wit…
Donations to renewable energy projects
This paper shows that interventions based on social norms and on increasing the visibility of people's decisions to others (“decision observability”) present promising pathways of generating public support for renewable energy development. In a laboratory experiment (n = 300), we show that social norms and decision observability increase support for renewable energy, even at a financial cost to oneself: When exposed to pro-environmental social no…
Can competing demands affect pro-environmental behaviour
Social Desirability in Environmental Psychology Research
That social desirability might be a confounder of people's survey responses regarding environmental actions has been discussed for a long time. To produce evidence for or against this assumption, we conducted meta-analyses of correlations between social desirability scales and self-reports of environmentally relevant behaviors, intentions, and (broadly defined) attitudes, based on data from 29 previously published papers. The pooled correlations …
Climate change action as a project of identity
Identity can improve our understanding of personal climate action, particularly when climate action becomes an expression of a person’s self. However, it is unclear which kind of self or identity is most relevant. Building on a comprehensive series of eight meta-analyses (using data from 188 published articles, N = 414,282 participants) this research systematically compares how strongly climate-friendly intentions and behaviors are associated wit…
Donations to renewable energy projects
This paper shows that interventions based on social norms and on increasing the visibility of people's decisions to others (“decision observability”) present promising pathways of generating public support for renewable energy development. In a laboratory experiment (n = 300), we show that social norms and decision observability increase support for renewable energy, even at a financial cost to oneself: When exposed to pro-environmental social no…
Can competing demands affect pro-environmental behaviour
Addressing climate change with behavioral science
Effectively reducing climate change requires marked, global behavior change. However, it is unclear which strategies are most likely to motivate people to change their climate beliefs and behaviors. Here, we tested 11 expert-crowdsourced interventions on four climate mitigation outcomes: beliefs, policy support, information sharing intention, and an effortful tree-planting behavioral task. Across 59,440 participants from 63 countries, the interve…
Patterns of household electricity consumption in Norway as a function of psychological factors, socio-economic constellations and access to electric appliances
To explore the complexity of household living conditions and their relation to electricity consumption, the socio-technical constellations they create for themselves and the perceived ease of saving electricity, we conducted a clustering analysis to categorise Norwegian participants in an electricity-saving programme based on environmental concerns, personal norms and socio-economic parameters. We also explored if the household clusters differed …
Smart thermostats, washing machines, and electric vehicle charging
Data from three stated choice experiments conducted in Germany and Spain with over 2500 participants provide new evidence on the determinants of consumer preferences for smart thermostats, smart electric vehicle charging, and smart scheduling of washing machine operation. Our findings reveal that across the three technologies, financial savings, the opportunity to consume energy generated from renewables, and technological benefits, such as vehic…
Evidence on environmentally conscious consumers’ preferences for energy-use automation in Germany and Spain
Mechanisms of Pro-Environmental Behavioural Spillover
If one pro-environmental behaviour (PEB) influences subsequent behaviours, this spillover effect holds significant implications for environmental policies. This paper systematically examines the psychological mechanisms underpinning PEB spillover by testing a comprehensive set of mediators within the same empirical framework. Studies were conducted in Norway ( N = 1,574) and Germany ( N = 1,938), using correlational and experimental designs. The …
Motivating Sustainable Lifestyles
Behavioural interventions using smartphones are increasing, yet limited research has examined the psychological drivers and barriers to adopting sustainable behaviours through mobile app‐mediated interventions. This study investigates how anticipated emotions and psychological reactance, in tandem with the Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB) constructs, shape individuals' willingness to accept sustainable lifestyle practices (‘Challenges’) delivere…
Environmental Education and Sustainability (9 works) · Behavioral Health and Interventions (4 works) · Climate Change Communication and Perception (4 works) · Ecology (4 works) · Economics (4 works) · Psychological intervention (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Biology (3 works) · Environmental economics (3 works) · Environmental Sustainability in Business (3 works)