Edenbrandt, Anna and Lagerkvist, Carl-Johan and Nordstrom, Jonas
(2021).
Interested, indifferent or active information avoiders of carbon labels: Cognitive dissonance and ascription of responsibility as motivating factors.
Food Policy. 101
, 102036
[Research article]
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Abstract
Active avoidance of information is gaining attention in the behavioural sciences. We explore motivations for active avoidance of carbon emissions information. In the first stage of a stated preference survey, respondents indicated whether they wished to access carbon emissions information (info-takers) or not (info-decliners) when selecting a protein source. In the second stage, all respondents were provided with carbon emissions information. The info-takers reduced emissions from their food choices by 32%, while the info-decliners also reduced their emissions (by 12%). This indicates active information avoidance among at least some info-decliners. We explore how cognitive dissonance, responsibility feelings and personal norms affect a person's actions when information is imposed upon them, and their role as motivators for actively avoiding carbon emissions information on meat products. Individuals who experience climate-related cognitive dissonance and/or responsibility feelings change behaviour more following climate information, and it also increases choice task uncertainty mostly among these. These findings point to the potential of increasing impact from information by simultaneously increasing personal responsibility feelings and activating social norms.
Authors/Creators: | Edenbrandt, Anna and Lagerkvist, Carl-Johan and Nordstrom, Jonas | ||||||
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Title: | Interested, indifferent or active information avoiders of carbon labels: Cognitive dissonance and ascription of responsibility as motivating factors | ||||||
Series Name/Journal: | Food Policy | ||||||
Year of publishing : | 2021 | ||||||
Volume: | 101 | ||||||
Article number: | 102036 | ||||||
Number of Pages: | 14 | ||||||
Publisher: | ELSEVIER SCI LTD | ||||||
ISSN: | 0306-9192 | ||||||
Language: | English | ||||||
Publication Type: | Research article | ||||||
Article category: | Scientific peer reviewed | ||||||
Version: | Published version | ||||||
Copyright: | Creative Commons: Attribution 4.0 | ||||||
Full Text Status: | Public | ||||||
Subjects: | (A) Swedish standard research categories 2011 > 5 Social Sciences > 509 Other Social Sciences > Social Sciences Interdisciplinary (Peace and Conflict Research and Studies on Sustainable Society) | ||||||
Keywords: | Climate label, Information avoidance, Cognitive dissonance, Carbon emission reduction, Consumer behaviour, Strategic ignorance | ||||||
URN:NBN: | urn:nbn:se:slu:epsilon-p-113080 | ||||||
Permanent URL: | http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:slu:epsilon-p-113080 | ||||||
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ID Code: | 25060 | ||||||
Faculty: | NJ - Fakulteten för naturresurser och jordbruksvetenskap | ||||||
Department: | (NL, NJ) > Dept. of Economics | ||||||
Deposited By: | SLUpub Connector | ||||||
Deposited On: | 26 Aug 2021 13:25 | ||||||
Metadata Last Modified: | 26 Aug 2021 13:31 |
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