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  • Environmental Psychology
  • Behavioral Economics
  • Societal Impact Studies

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  • Online research often neglects the societal consequences of human behavior.
  • Pro-environmental behavior studies frequently use self-reports and hypothetical scenarios, limiting validity.
  • There is a need for online methods that measure actual, consequential pro-environmental actions.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop and validate a web-based procedure for studying consequential pro-environmental behavior online.
  • To create a task where participants engage in real environmental actions with tangible costs and benefits.
  • To assess the reliability and validity of this new procedure compared to existing measures.

Main Methods:

  • Development of the Work for Environmental Protection Task (WEPT), a multi-trial web-based procedure.
  • Participants screened numerical stimuli to earn donations for an environmental organization, incurring effort costs.
  • A preregistered validation study (N = 209) was conducted to assess task performance and validity.

Main Results:

  • WEPT performance varied systematically with implemented costs and benefits, indicating participants responded to consequences.
  • Aggregated performance on the WEPT was highly reliable.
  • WEPT performance correlated with self-reports and objective observations of other pro-environmental behaviors.

Conclusions:

  • The Work for Environmental Protection Task (WEPT) is a valid online procedure for studying actual pro-environmental behavior.
  • The WEPT can advance experimental analysis of environmental actions and address common-method variance.
  • The WEPT framework can be adapted for studying other consequential, societally relevant behaviors online.