Koster, Fardau (2022) Public Participation and Values in Sustainable Projects. Bachelor thesis, Psychology.
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Abstract
In order to mitigate the impacts of climate change environmental policies are required. The support from the public for these policies is necessary to create a successful implementation. In current research we will study public participation, trust in science, and values as possible contributors to the acceptability of a food tax policy. By means of an online survey, we performed an experimental study with a between-subjects design. From our convenience sample 108 people completed the survey. Participants were asked to imagine that they would participate in a public participation procedure, in which they would discuss different consequences of the food tax policy. Consequently, participants were randomly distributed between the three experimental conditions; personal consequences, environmental consequences or a combination of both. At the end the acceptability of the policy was measured. We expected that when one’s values were congruent with the consequences discussed, or that when a combination of consequences was being discussed, the acceptability of the food tax policy would be higher. We performed an ANCOVA, which did not show a significant relation between the experimental conditions and the acceptableness of the food tax policy. However, there were other significant effects found, whereas people with higher levels of biospheric values evaluated the policy as more acceptable than people with lower levels of biospheric values. Moreover, people with higher levels of trust in science, were more acceptable of the policy than people with lower levels of trust in science. However, an attention check with regard to the manipulation was wrongly answered by a large part of the participants. This raises questions about the reliability of the manipulation of this study. Keywords: Public Participation, Trust, Values, Environmental Policy
| Item Type: | Thesis (Bachelor) |
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| Supervisor name: | Perlaviciute, G. |
| Degree programme: | Psychology |
| Differentiation route: | Other [Bachelor Psychology] |
| Date Deposited: | 17 Feb 2022 09:38 |
| Last Modified: | 17 Feb 2022 09:38 |
| URI: | http://gmwpublic.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/194 |
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