Environmental issues are some of the most pressing threats the world is facing nowadays. In this context, motivating individual pro‐environmental behavior becomes highly relevant. One strategy is to harness people's pro‐environmental dispositions (e.g., biospheric values, pro‐environmental attitudes). Although acknowledging the need to behave pro‐environmentally lies at the core of these dispositions, the extent to which they are reflected in day‐to‐day pro‐environmental practices fluctuates to a great extent. How to bridge this gap between dispositions and behaviors in pro‐environmentalism? This research tests a novel psychological solution, that is, to heighten subjective feelings of power. Power depicts people's control over their own and others’ outcomes. Two studies (total N = 338, with n = 200 in Study 1 and n = 138 in Study 2) manipulated people's situational sense of high versus low power (by recalling and writing about relevant incidents), measured pro‐environmental dispositions (biospheric values in Studies 1 and 2; attitude toward a specific environmental cause in Study 2), and examined their effects on pro‐environmental behaviors (spending time on environmental persuasion in Study 1 and spending money on environmental donation in Study 2). Overall, both studies revealed that pro‐environmental dispositions predicted pro‐environmental behaviors, but only when the actors were prompted to experience a high instead of a low sense of power. The findings illuminate power as an important and viable communication tactic—to orient people toward their dispositions and practice what they preach in pro‐environmentalism.

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缩小环境倾向与行为之间的差距：感觉力量的作用

环境问题是当今世界面临的最紧迫的威胁。在这种情况下，激发个人的环保行为变得非常重要。一种策略是利用人们对环境的态度（例如，生物圈价值，对环境的态度）。尽管认识到需要环保行为是这些倾向的核心，但它们在日常环保实践中所反映的程度在很大程度上波动。在亲环境主义中如何弥合性格和行为之间的鸿沟？这项研究测试了一种新颖的心理解决方案，即增强主观力量感。权力描述了人们对自己和他人成果的控制。两项研究（总N  = 338，其中n =研究1和n中的200 =研究2中的138）（通过回忆和撰写有关事件来操纵人们的高低动力情景），测量了亲环境的处置（研究1和2中的生物圈值；研究2中对特定环境原因的态度），并研究了它们对环保行为的影响（在研究1中花时间在环境说服上，在研究2中花钱在环境捐赠上）。总体而言，两项研究都表明，亲环境的性格可以预测亲环境的行为，但前提是要促使演员们表现出较高的权力感而不是较低的权力感。这些发现阐明了力量是一种重要且可行的沟通策略，可以使人们适应自己的性格，并实践他们在亲环境主义中的主张。