Environmental protection s in social psychology
... my attitude scores a 4 or 5 towards environmental protection. On the Friday morning at 1030 my attempt for environment protection is replacing the disposable containers in Mcdonald’s by my own reusable containers. However, when it comes to the counter, the Mcdonald’s staff looked confused and explained to me” WE are sorry could not replace it as there is a long queue behind you” My mother also said after people in the queue gave her some pressure “Come on, let’s go, just take the food and stop annoying the other people” At that moment I decided to end my environmental protection day. The shopping experience at 1800 causes me a great drop in the attitude because my mother said something when she saw the smelly bad with fish blood. She said” You can’t even finish a simple task” However, the turning point from a low attitude to a high attitude was the criticism by my brother and my father after I switched off the computer that was on for the whole day and lost the nearly finished download game. For some reason, at that time I was full of determination to explain the energy saving concept to him and browse on some website to support my theory. This maybe saying why my attitude changes because my behavior of finding reasonable explanation to my acts. The following table is the summary for the events in my environmental protection day Time and Venue of the event Nature of the event Successful or not Attitude level after the event 10:30 McDonald’s Request to use lunch boxes to replace the paper boxes for breakfast NO Rejected by McDonald’s staff and my mother 0 13:00 J...