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With widespread fears of climate change, global warming, and policymakers calling for reducing our consumption, it is important that we have an understanding of antecedents of consumers’ environmentally-friendly consumption behaviors. In this research, we conduct two studies to examine the interaction effect of environmental identity and perceived responsibility for global warming on consumers’ collective guilt and its subsequent effect on intentions to engage in environmentally-friendly behaviors. Further, we examine a mechanism by which the feeling of collective guilt may be avoided by some. Extending the study by Ferguson and Branscombe (2010), we show that when environmental degradation is perceived to be caused by humans (as opposed to natural factors), it leads to a feeling of collective guilt among those who identify highly with the environment. This collective guilt encourages environmentally-friendly consumption behavior.

With widespread fears of climate change, global warming, and policymakers calling for reducing our consumption, it is important that we have an understanding of antecedents of consumers’ environmentally-friendly consumption behaviors. In this research, we conduct two studies to examine the interaction effect of environmental identity and perceived responsibility for global warming on consumers’ collective guilt and its subsequent effect on intentions to engage in environmentally-friendly behaviors. Further, we examine a mechanism by which the feeling of collective guilt may be avoided by some. Extending the study by Ferguson and Branscombe (2010), we show that when environmental degradation is perceived to be caused by humans (as opposed to natural factors), it leads to a feeling of collective guilt among those who identify highly with the environment. This collective guilt encourages environmentally-friendly consumption behavior.

In the penitential ethos of late fourteenth-century England, ideas about shame and guilt were of central concern. Preachers and poets, alike, considered questions such as: what role should shame have in contrition and penance? What is the precise relationship between physical purity and moral or spiritual purity? What are the emotions best suited to eliciting the fullest and most sincere confession? Such questions were posed explicitly in penitential manuals and handbooks, but they also formed the ethical and philosophical soil out of which many of the periods major literary works emerged. This dissertation examines representations of shame and guilt in the literary contexts and narrative poetry of Geoffrey Chaucer. I consider Chaucers treatment of these ideas in light of his contemporaries, especially the Gawain-poet, as well as a broader historical context, surveying shame and guilt in the Middle English literary traditions of romance and hagiography. I also explore recent developments in affect theory, and draw on work in anthropology and psychoanalysis in order to theorize the ethical dimensions of shame, guilt, and related ideas of agency and purity. I argue that much of Chaucers poetry, but especially the Canterbury Tales, articulate the private and public facets of these emotions, not only as matters for the confessional, but as representative of opposing ethical systems, and, therefore, as fundamental in shaping possibilities for human social life. I see Chaucer as a poet deeply concerned with ethical questions. His works consistently represent guilt as an ethical ideal whereas shame is often portrayed as the psychological reality that gets in the way of attempts to realize the ideal. From Dido to Criseyde to Virginia and Dorigen, many of Chaucers characters call attention to the injustice of guiltless shame: the way in which the individuals inner moral state conflicts with the external world of honour and shame. Thus, while Chaucers narratives present us with a full spectrum of ethical responses and psychological motives for evading or claiming moral responsibility, I pay special attention to the many ways in which shame is mobilized in service of social and gendered dynamics of power and victimization.

Thesis (M.A.)--York University, 2007. Graduate Programme in Psychology. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 40-48). Also available on the Internet. MODE OF ACCESS via web browser by entering the following URL: http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:MR32005

Thesis (Th. M.)--Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, 1996. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 118-121).

Thesis (doctoral)--Universität Erlangen.

Thesis (S.T.M.)--Trinity Lutheran Seminary, 2001. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 228-231).

Thesis (doctoral)--Universität Göttingen. / Includes bibliographical references (p. [vii]-x).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1963. / Typescript. Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 82-83).