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negative footprint illusion: a standalone construct

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Environmental psychology

the mistaken belief that adding green items to a set of conventional ones lowers the total environmental impact, from averaging rather than summing impacts.

In environmental psychology, negative footprint illusion refers to the mistaken belief that adding green items to a set of conventional ones lowers the total environmental impact, from averaging rather than summing impacts. This meaning comes from Gorissen (2016) in Journal of Environmental Psychology.[1]

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References

Gorissen, K., & Weijters, B. (2016). The negative footprint illusion: Perceptual bias in sustainable food consumption. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 45, 50-65. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2015.11.009

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