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Frontiers in Psychology
Some behavioral aspects of energy descent: how a biophysical psychology might help people transition through the lean times ahead
Raymond De Young1 
关键词: biophysical psychology;    environmental psychology;    conservation psychology;    energy descent;    behavior change;    prefamiliarization;    embedded benefits;    psychological well-being;   
DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01255
学科分类:心理学(综合)
来源: Frontiers
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【 摘 要 】

We may soon face biophysical limits to perpetual growth. Energy supplies may tighten and then begin a long slow descent while defensive expenditures rise to address problems caused by past resource consumption. The outcome may be significant changes in daily routines at the individual and community level. It is difficult to know when this scenario might begin to unfold but it clearly would constitute a new behavioral context, one that the behavioral sciences least attends to. Even if one posits a less dramatic scenario, people may still need to make many urgent and perhaps unsettling transitions. And while a robust response would be needed, it is not at all clear what should be the details of that response. Since it is likely that no single response will fix things everywhere, for all people or for all time, it would be useful to conduct many social experiments. Indeed, a culture of small experiments should be fostered which, at the individual and small group level, can be described as behavioral entrepreneurship. This may have begun, hidden in plain sight, but more social experiments are needed. To be of help, it may be useful to both package behavioral insights in a way that is practitioner-oriented and grounded in biophysical trends and to propose a few key questions that need attention. This paper begins the process of developing a biophysical psychology, incomplete as it is at this early stage.

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