Pro-environmental behaviour (PEB) is often promoted by reinforcing or highlighting own benefits. However, considering that actors also care about the outcomes for others (i.e. they hold other-regarding preferences), PEB may also be encouraged by addressing these other-regarding preferences. In this paper, we review the results from social science experiments where interventions addressing other-regarding preferences were used to promote PEB. Based on our synthesis, we conclude that addressing other-regarding preferences can be effective in promoting (various types of) PEB in some, but not in all instances. Whether an intervention was effective depended inter alia on the pre-established preferences, cost structures and the perceived cooperation of others. Effective interventions included the provision of information on behavioural consequences, perspective-taking, direct appeals, framing and re-categorization. The interventions worked by activating other-regarding preferences, raising awareness about adverse consequences, evoking empathic concern and expanding the moral circle. We propose to take these findings as an impulse to examine policy instruments and institutions in terms of whether they activate and strengthen other-regarding preferences, thereby enabling collective engagement in PEB.

亲环境行为（PEB）通常通过增强或强调自身利益来促进。但是，考虑到参与者也关心他人的结果（即，他们拥有其他考虑的偏好），也可以通过解决这些其他考虑的偏好来鼓励PEB。在本文中，我们回顾了社会科学实验的结果，在这些实验中，针对其他偏好的干预措施被用来促进PEB。根据我们的综合，我们得出结论，在某些情况下（但并非在所有情况下）解决其他方面的偏好可以有效地促进（各种类型的）PEB。干预是否有效，除其他外，取决于预先确定的偏好，成本结构和其他人的合作感。有效的干预措施包括提供有关行为后果的信息，采取观点，直接诉求，取景和重新分类。这些干预措施通过激发其他方面的偏好，提高人们对不良后果的认识，引起同情心关注和扩大道德圈而起作用。我们建议以这些发现为冲动，从政策工具和机构是否激活和加强其他方面的偏好的角度来研究这些工具和机构，从而使人们能够参与PEB。