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Is Evidence‐Based Policymaking an Environmental Studies Agenda? An Interpretive Review

open access: yesEnvironmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Studies of knowledge development and use for public decision‐making can be found across the social sciences. There have been increasing calls for meaningful integration of the contrasting disciplinary perspectives on this topic, including from environmental and sustainability sciences.
Peter Tangney, Raisa Adamjee
wiley   +1 more source

Negotiating Forest Management Within the Multiple‐Use of Forests in Sweden

open access: yesEnvironmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT European forest governance is increasingly expected to reconcile timber production with biodiversity conservation, climate mitigation, rural development, and human well‐being. In Sweden, forest policy promotes multifunctionality and environmental concern under the principle of “freedom with responsibility,” yet clear‐cut, even‐aged forestry ...
Jenny Friman   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Striving for Significance: Development and Validation of the Desire for Significance Scale

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Social Psychology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The need for personal significance (i.e., the desire for mattering, meriting respect and ‘being someone’) is a psychogenic need that guides a variety of human behaviours studied across multiple domains of social psychology. Despite its relevance, a validated measure of stable individual differences in the motivation to satisfy the need for ...
Erica Molinario   +14 more
wiley   +1 more source

Everyone Knows It's a Hoax: The Role of Perceived Descriptive Norms in Conspiracy Beliefs

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Social Psychology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT People's belief in conspiracy theories is shaped by social influence processes. This contribution investigated these processes in six studies (total N = 2906) by examining the role of descriptive norms, that is, the perception that others endorse conspiracy theories.
Jan‐Willem van Prooijen   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Individuals Meaningfully Differ in How They Construct the Populist Subject of ‘the People’: Development and Initial Validation of the Popular Inclusion and Exclusion Scale

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Social Psychology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Despite the variety of populist manifestations, little research has dedicated itself to exploring this variation within and between individuals. Building on a discursive tradition, we propose that individuals meaningfully differ in how they construct the populist group of ‘the people’. Across three studies, we developed a popular inclusion and
Joseph D. Foley   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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