Foreword p. x
Introduction: The Why, the What, and the How of this Book p. xiii
The Why: Who I Am and Why I Wrote it p. xiii
The What: Chapter Organization and Rationale p. xvii
The How: Some Key Ingredients and Experiences p. xix
What on Earth Are We Doing?: The Psychology of Environmental Problems p. 1
Biology's Bottom Line: Carrying Capacity p. 5
Psychological Reactions: Boomsters versus Doomsters p. 16
Gimme More: The Psychology of Overconsumption p. 20
Back to Basics: Cultural versus Biological Carrying Capacity p. 22
The "Nature" of Western Thought p. 25
Our Western View of "Nature" p. 32
Nature Is Composed of Inert, Physical Elements
Nature Can and Should Be Controlled
Individual Human Beings Seek Private Economic Gain
We Must Progress
The "Nature" of Traditional Thought p. 50
Third World "Development" p. 55
A Psychological Approach to Worldview p. 58
Social Psychology: The Impact of Other People p. 62
Hitler's Contribution to Social Psychology p. 64
Our Irrational Attempts to Look Rational: Cognitive Dissonance Theory p. 65
Attitudes versus Behavior: The Split between Planet and Self p. 68
Attribution Theory: Making Up Meaning p. 74
The Rationality of Irrational Behavior p. 75
From Norms to Environmentally Appropriate Behavior p. 77
It Is Still a Man's World p. 80
Maintaining Gender Bias: Four Mechanisms
Gender Bias Saturates Our View of Nature
The Global Context of Environmentally Destructive Behavior
International Development and Underdevelopment
The Military
The Social Psychology of Overconsumption p. 105
The Social Psychology of Happiness p. 105
The Main Message and Limit of Social Psychology p. 111
Unconscious Conflicts: Freud and the Psychoanalytic Tradition p. 112
The Difficulty of Freud p. 113
The Basis and Basics of Freud's Theory p. 115
Unconscious Motivations
Conflict
Bodily Basis of Personality
Defenses
Critique of Freud and Psychoanalysis p. 132
Object Relations Theory: Re-experiencing the Mother p. 135
Healing the Split between Planet and Self: Freud's View p. 144
Using Freud's Ideas p. 146
Behaviorism: Emphasis on the Environment p. 153
Historical Basis of Behaviorism p. 155
Skinner's Operant Learning Principles p. 158
Applications to Environmental Problems p. 163
Antecedent Strategies: Changing the SDs p. 165
Consequence Strategies: Changing the SRs p. 167
Feedback as SRs
Prices as SRs
Social Traps as Reinforcement Dilemmas p. 175
Behavioral Self-Control p. 177
Applications of the Behavioral Approach p. 182
Healing the Split between Self and Planet: Forgoing Freedom p. 183
Cognitive Psychology: Emphasis on Thinking p. 188
The Cognitive Revolution p. 190
The Scientific Study of Thinking: Jean Piaget p. 192
When All You Have Is a Computer, Everything Looks Like Information p. 194
Information Processing: The Constraints of GIGO p. 195
Wrong Information
Limited Information
Irrelevant Information
Information Processing: The Constraints of Faulty Programs p. 206
Preconceptions and Expectations
Heuristics as Illogical Reasoning Strategies
Quantitative Illiteracy
Using Cognitive Psychology to Solve Environmental Problems p. 212
Risk Assessment: Whose Quantification Problem Is It? p. 218
Healing the Split: Retaining a Voice p. 225
Holistic Approaches: Gestalt and Transpersonal Psychology p. 228
Gestalt Psychology: Studying Perceptual Wholes p. 230
Laboratory Confirmation: Group Effects in Social Dilemma Games
Two more Applications of Gestalt: Perls and Lewin
From Gestalt to Ecological Psychology: Gibson and Neisser
Transpersonal Psychology: The Self beyond the Self p. 242
From Transpersonal Psychology to Deep Ecology
Two Examples: Eco-psychology and Transpersonal Ecology
Biodiversity from a Transpersonal Perspective
Healing the Split Between Planet and Self: Applications from Gestalt and Transpersonal Ecology p. 264
Psychology for a Sustainable World: Ecological Psychology p. 270
A Brief Look Back p. 271
Psychology as a Modernist Legacy p. 272
Psychology Focuses on the Individual
Psychology Is Defined as a Science
Psychology Is a Tool for the Improvement of Human Welfare
Psychology: Culprit or Solution? Comparing the Five Approaches p. 278
Toward an Ecological Psychology p. 283
Global Context of Environmentally Appropriate Behavior p. 284
Postmodern Psychology: The Constructed Self Meets the Constructed World p. 286
Critique of the Postmodernist Position
Constructive Postmodernism
Ecological Psychology: Four Operating Principles p. 296
Envisioning a Sustainable World p. 298
The Cost of Inaction? p. 301
What To Do p. 303
Index p. 312