Thomas Dietz

Value Orientations, Gender, and Environmental Concern

A social-psychological model is developed to examine the proposition that environmentalism represents a new way of thinking. It presumes that action in support of environmental ...

Influences on Attitude-Behavior Relationships

A simple model was tested in which attitudinal factors and external conditions act in combination to influence behavior. The model predicts that behavior is a monotonic function...

The New Ecological Paradigm in Social-Psychological Context

The New Ecological Paradigm (NEP) scale is the most frequently used measure of environmental concern, but it has not been placed in the context of a social-psychological theory ...

Social Structural and Social Psychological Bases of Environmental Concern

Efforts to explain environmental concern as a function of social structure have revealed some weak but reliable associations. Stronger associations have been found between envir...

Climate Change and Society

This article traces the long intellectual history that seeks to understand the recursive relationship between variations in the Earth's climate and variations in social structur...

Toward a theory of choice: Socially embedded preference construction