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- Andersson, Hanna, 1991-, et al.
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The negative footprint illusion is exacerbated by the numerosity of environment-friendly additions: unveiling the underpinning mechanisms
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Ingår i: Journal of Cognitive Psychology. - : Taylor & Francis. - 2044-5911 .- 2044-592X. ; 36:2, s. 295-307
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The addition of environmentally friendly items to conventional items sometimes leads people to believe that the carbon footprint of the entire set decreases rather than increases. This negative footprint illusion is supposedly underpinned by an averaging bias: people base environmental impact estimates not on the total impact of items but on their average. Here, we found that the illusion's magnitude increased with the addition of a greater number of "green" items when the number of conventional items remained constant (Studies 1 and 2), supporting the averaging-bias account. We challenged this account by testing what happens when the number of items in the conventional and "green" categories vary while holding the ratio between the two categories constant (Study 3). At odds with the averaging-bias account, the magnitude of the illusion increased as the category size increased, revealing a category-size bias, and raising questions about the interplay between these biases in the illusion.
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- Elmqvist, Thomas, 1963-, et al.
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Urbanization in and for the Anthropocene
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Ingår i: npj Urban Sustainability. - : Springer. - 2661-8001. ; 1:1
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Key insights on needs in urban regional governance - Global urbanization (the increasing concentration in urban settlements of the increasing world population), is a driver and accelerator of shifts in diversity, new cross-scale interactions, decoupling from ecological processes, increasing risk and exposure to shocks. Responding to the challenges of urbanization demands fresh commitments to a city–regional perspective in ways that are explictly embedded in the Anthopocene bio- techno- and noospheres, to extend existing understanding of the city–nature nexus and regional scale. Three key dimensions of cities that constrain or enable constructive, cross scale responses to disturbances and extreme events include 1) shifting diversity, 2) shifting connectivity and modularity, and 3) shifting complexity. These three dimensions are characteristic of current urban processes and offer potential intervention points for local to global action.
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- Holmgren, Mattias, Doktorand, 1991-, et al.
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Eliminating the Negative Footprint Illusion by Fostering a Summative Mindset using a Transfer Paradigm
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Annan publikation (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- People’s belief that an environmentally friendly item that is added to a set of conventional items has the ability to reduce the total environmental impact of these items could lead to unwanted environmental consequences. An averaging bias seems to underpin this negative footprint illusion: people make their estimates based on the average of the environmental impact produced by the items rather than their accumulative sum. We report a study using a problem-solving transfer paradigm to explore if this preoccupation to think in terms of an average can be eliminated by fostering a summative mindset. The results demonstrate that, participants can correctly estimate that environmental impact will increase when a “green” car is added to a set of petrol cars, but only when this task is preceded by a task that engenders a summation judgment. Our evidence indicates that the negative footprint illusion can be tempered by problem-solving transfer whereby a primed concept (summation) is used adaptively on subsequent judgments, thereby correcting for bias in environmental judgments.
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- Jonsäll, Anette, et al.
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Effects of genotype and rearing system on sensory characteristics and preference for pork (M. Longissimus dorsi)
- 2002
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Ingår i: Food Quality and Preference. - : Elsevier. - 0950-3293 .- 1873-6343. ; 13:2, s. 73-80
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The study concerns sensory quality, consumer preference, and thawing and cooking losses of loin muscle (M. Longissimus dorsi) from Hampshire crosses of different genotypes. Half of the pigs were organically reared, the others conventionally reared. A selected and trained panel carried out descriptive tests showing that loin from organically reared pigs scored lower for juiciness and higher for crumbliness than loin from conventionally reared pigs. Loin from RN− carriers compared with loin from non-carriers scored higher for tenderness, juiciness, acidulous taste and meat taste and lower for crumbliness. Loin from gilts scored higher for juiciness and lower for off-flavour than loin from castrated males. Two consumer tests were performed. Rearing system did not influence the consumer preference for pork loin, while RN− loins were preferred to loins from non-carriers. Neither rearing system nor genotype affected thawing or cooking losses. Loin from females, however, had higher thawing loss than loin from castrated males.
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