Ecological behavior across the lifespan: Why environmentalism increases as people grow older.

In this research, two alternative theoretical explanations: maturation versus learning were compared using two large samples (N = 779, N = 2317) assessed almost a decade apart.  results show that learning rather than maturation explained the relation between age and self-reported ecological behavior.

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Otto, S.; Kaiser, F. G.
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Otto, S. and F. G. Kaiser.  2014.  Ecological behavior across the lifespan: Why environmentalism increases as people grow older.  Journal of Environmental Psychology 40(0): 331-338.

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2014
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