OBJECTIVE The adoption of pro-environmental behaviours reduces anthropogenic environmental impacts and subsequent human health effects. This study developed composite indices measuring adoption of pro-environmental behaviours at the household level in Canada. METHODS The 2007 Households and the Environment Survey conducted by Statistics Canada collected data on Canadian environmental behaviou...

Cities that can improve their environmental performance will benefit from having a healthier, more productive populace that enjoys a better quality of life. This study attempts to answer the question of how to create a ‘smart’ sustainable city through developing a culture of sustainability from a waste management perspective. With this concept in mind, a waste reduction model is theorised. The ...

Climate change is an existential threat facing humanity on a global scale. To handle this problem, all societal actors, including young people, need to get involved. This narrative review focuses what implications climate has for research in developmental psychology. It argued that how people relate closely associated with key issues dealt field. The aim of article present overview about and co...

Sustainable consumption, provision of a clean and healthy environment, as well improvements to the quality life current future generations, are all integral parts sustainable development strategy, which is understood compromise between environmental, economic social objectives society. The pro-environmental pro-social consumer engagement in consumption may lead behavioral change, thus contribut...

Abstract The importance acquired by private cars as the leading travel mode in most advanced countries has drawn attention to concerns related pro-environmental behaviour. Indeed, car brought great benefits society, albeit causing a whole lot of environmental and socio-economic consequences. In this perspective, we exploit Eurobarometer data on attitudes Europeans towards urban mobility investi...

OBJECTIVE Recent evidence found that patients with schizophrenia display non-verbal behaviour designed to avoid social engagement during the opening moments of their meetings with psychiatrists. This study aimed to replicate, and build on, this finding, assessing the non-verbal behaviour of patients and psychiatrists during meetings, exploring changes over time and its association with patients...

Th e aim of this paper is to describe and analyse attitudes and behaviours of the student population (N=1347) of the University of Rijeka towards environmental issues. Data were collected during the summer semester of the 2015/2016 academic year. Paper seeks to explore the connection between the following measured concepts: socio-ecological orientations, pro-environmental behaviour, ethos types...

Moral enhancement is a topic that has sparked much current interest in the world of bioethics. The possibility of making people ‘better,’ not just in the conventional enhancement sense of improving health and other desirable (and desired) qualities and capacities, but by making them somehow more moral, more decent, altogether better people, has attracted attention from both advocates1 2 and sce...

If artificial intelligence (AI) were achievable, what would the consequences be for human society?1 Perhaps surprisingly, the answer to this question is already at hand. We are achieving rapid and accelerating success in our quest to build AI. That very success — and the slowness with which both the academic community and the general public have come to recognise it — has shown how little we un...