Despite the decision by supermarket-giant Tesco to delay its plan to add carbon-footprint information onto all of its 70,000 products, carbon labelling, if carefully designed, could yet change consumer behaviour. However, it requires a new type of thinking about consumers and much additional work.
This is a preview of subscription content, access via your institution
Access options
Subscribe to this journal
Receive 12 print issues and online access
$209.00 per year
only $17.42 per issue
Buy this article
- Purchase on Springer Link
- Instant access to full article PDF
Prices may be subject to local taxes which are calculated during checkout
References
Stoekel, L. E. et al. NeuroImage 41, 636–647 (2008).
Henderson, J. M. & Ferreira, F. in The Interface of Language, Vision, and Action: Eye Movements and the Visual World (eds Henderson, J. M. & Ferreira, F.) 1–58 (Plenum Press, 2004).
Holsanova, J., Holmberg, N. & Holmqvist, K. App. Cog. Psychol. 23, 1215–1226 (2009).
Graham, D. J. & Jeffery, R. W. Am. Diet. Assoc. 111, 1704–1711 (2011).
Visschers, V. H. M., Hess, R. & Siegrist, M. Pub. Health Nutr. 13, 1099–1106 (2010).
Graham, D. J. & Jeffrey, R. W. Pub. Health Nutr. 15, 189–197 (2011).
Beattie, G., McGuire, L. & Sale, L. Int. J. Environ. Cult. Econ. Soc. Sustain. 6, 47–65 (2010).
Damasio, A. R. Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain (Putnam Publishing, 1994).
Kahneman, D. Thinking, Fast and Slow (Penguin, 2011).
Elliot, A. J. et al. J. Exp.Psychol. 136, 154–68 (2007).
Fazio, R. H. & Towles-Schwen, T. in Dual-Process Theories in Social Psychology (eds Chaiken, S. & Trope, Y.) 97–116 (Guilford Press, 1999).
Gollwitzer, P. M. Am. Psychol. 54, 493–503 (1999).
Olson, M. A. & Fazio, R. H. Person. Soc. Psychol. Bull. 32, 421–433 (2006).
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Rights and permissions
About this article
Cite this article
Beattie, G. Psychological effectiveness of carbon labelling. Nature Clim Change 2, 214–217 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate1468
Published:
Issue Date:
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate1468
This article is cited by
-
Leaving the “sustainability or collapse” narrative behind
Sustainability Science (2019)