Moreover, the role that participants played was manipulated. An ocean fishing experimental task, with different climate conditions and resource regeneration rates, was used to simulate a commons dilemma. In echoing to this issue, the current study attempts to investigate the effects of ecological conditions on individuals’ environmentally responsible behavior, and to examine the role of leadership in managing resource deterioration in a small group.

Results show that to promote the sustainable consumption of shared ecological resources, it is prudent for educators, environmental managers, and policy makers to encourage the expression of biospheric values.Įxploring the possibility of self-governance of common-pool resources has received increasing attention in the literature. In line with our hypothesis, controlling for demographic characteristics (e.g., gender) and key facets of social desirability (e.g., impression management), egoistic, altruistic, and biospheric values positively predicted competition, altruistic cooperation, and ecological cooperation, respectively, within the commons dilemma. Two hundred Canadian undergraduate students completed an online survey assessing proenvironmental value orientation and commons dilemma decision-making tendencies.

In this study, we investigated the impact of three kinds of proenvironmental values (egoistic, altruistic, and biospheric) on competitive and cooperative behavior in a hypothetical ecological commons dilemma scenario. However, environmental values vary and they do not equally predict proenvironmental behavior. In ecological commons dilemma research, environmental values tend to be treated as a monolith.

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