Junior Professorship for Environmental Psychology

Development of behavioral paradigms for the analysis of pro-environmental behavior

• Lange, F., & Rieger, A. (2025). A minute can only be spent once: Validating a behavioral paradigm to study societally relevant time allocation conflicts. Behavior Research Methods, 57, 246.

• Lange, F. (2023). Behavioral paradigms for studying pro-environmental behavior: A systematic review. Behavior Research Methods, 55, 600-622.

• Lange, F. & Dewitte, S. (2022). The Work for Environmental Protection Task: A consequential web-based procedure for studying pro-environmental behavior. Behavior Research Methods, 54, 133-145.

• Lange, F., Steinke, A., & Dewitte, S. (2018). The Pro-Environmental Behavior Task: A laboratory measure of actual pro-environmental behavior. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 56, 46-54.

Determinants of pro-environmental behavior

• Kusch, S., Krebs, R., & Lange, F. (2025). Value through cognitive effort: Working for an environmental organization increases subsequent donations. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 107, 102771.

• Lange, F., & Dewitte, S. (2023). Validity and scope sensitivity of the Work for Environmental Protection Task. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 86, 101967.

• Lange, F., & Truyens, M. (2022). Mixed evidence for the effect of virtual nature exposure on effortful pro-environmental behavior. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 81, 101803.

• Lange, F., & Dewitte, S. (2020). Positive Affect and Pro-environmental Behavior: A preregistered experiment. Journal of Economic Psychology, 80, 102291.

• Lange, F., Brick, C., & Dewitte, S. (2020). Green when seen? No support for an effect of observability on environmental conservation in the laboratory: a registered report. Royal Society Open Science, 7, 190189.

Interventions for the promotion of pro-environmental behavior (laboratory, online)

• Lipinski, P. A., Kunkle, S., & Lange, F. (2025). Effects of Financial Incentives on Pro-Environmental Behavior Before and After Incentive Discontinuation. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 105, 102638.

• Kroker, V., & Lange, F. (2024). Financial and prosocial incentives promote pro-environmental behavior in a consequential laboratory task. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 102331.

• Lange, F., & Dewitte, S. (2023). Non-monetary reinforcement effects on pro-environmental behavior. Journal of Economic Psychology, 97, 102628.

• Wenzel, M., Rowland, Z., Nielsen, K. S., & Lange, F. (2023). The impact of perceived threat and perceived coping efficacy on individual actions toward biodiversity conservation. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 88, 102038.

Interventions for the promotion of pro-environmental behavior (field)

• Lange, F., Van Asbroeck, R., Van Baelen, D., & Dewitte, S. (2024). For cash, the planet, or for both: Evaluating an informational intervention for energy consumption reduction. Energy Policy, 194, 114314.

• Sochnikoff, I. & Lange, F. (2024). How to promote mobile phone recovery? Evaluation of a collection campaign in Belgian schools. Cleaner and Responsible Consumption, 15, 100231.

• Lange, F., Cnudde, M., & Maesen, H. (2023). Using prosocial incentives to promote vegetarian food choices: a field experiment. Food Quality and Preference, 106, 104812.

• Lange, F., Hermans, Z., De Koster, J., & Smismans, R. (2022). Promoting pro-environmental gardening practices: Field experimental evidence for the effectiveness of biospheric appeals. Urban Forestry & Urban Greening, 70, 127544.

• Lange, F., De Weerdt, L., & Verlinden, L. (2021). Reducing Plastic Bag Use Through Prosocial Incentives. Sustainability, 13, 2421.

Perspectives on environmental psychology

• Lange, F. (2024). What is measured in pro-environmental behavior research? Journal of Environmental Psychology, 98, 102381.

• Nielsen, K. S., Cologna, V., Bauer, J. M., Berger, S., Brick, C., Dietz, T., Hahnel, U. J. J., Henn, L., Lange, F., Stern, P. C., & Wolske, K. S. (2024). Realizing the full potential of behavioural science for climate change mitigation. Nature Climate Change, 14, 322-330.

• Lange, F., Berger, S., Byrka, K., Brügger, A., Henn, L., Sparks, A. C., ... & Urban, J. (2023). Beyond self-reports: A call for more behavior in environmental psychology. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 86, 101965.

• Wille, F., & Lange, F. (2022). Potential Contributions of Behavior Analysis to Research on Pro-environmental Behavior. Frontiers in Psychology, 13, 685621.

• Lange, F., & Dewitte, S. (2019). Measuring pro-environmental behavior: Review and recommendations. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 63, 92-100.