The next edition of the DSI/NRF/CSIR Chair in Waste and Society Webinar Series is titled "Towards ending attitude-behaviour rift in littering behaviour: Insight from littering prevention behaviour research in Nigeria".
Host: Dr Marlin Hoffman
Date: Thursday, 17 March 2022
Time: 12h00
Platform: Zoom
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Oluyinka Ojedokun is an Applied Social and Environmental Psychologist at Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba-Akoko, Ondo State, Nigeria. He received his Ph.D. from the prestigious University of Ibadan, Nigeria, and focused his research on psychosocial factors and responsible environmental behavior (i.e., waste management) in developing countries, an interest that continues to this day.
Ojedokun is a recipient of some fellowship and grants: including TETFUND research grant (Institutional Based) in 2016, Meaning-Making Research Initiative 2017 grant, and a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at the North-West University (Mafikeng Campus), South Africa. In addition to authoring chapters in books, he has authored and co authored more articles in reputable international and national journals.
His current research tends toward psychosocial processes underlying environmental behaviors (e.g., littering behavior, plastic littering, open defecation, inappropriate toilet behavior, and pro-environmental behavior).
This webinar will focus on different reasons for expecting consistency between attitudes and behaviour, as well as interrogating models that researchers have developed for understanding the mechanisms through which attitudes shape behaviour. The ultimate goal of environmental behaviour researchers is to bring about a change in people’s behaviour that causes environmental problems. Thus, the presenter will also share experiences and challenges associated with researching littering prevention behaviour in Nigeria. The webinar will conclude by highlighting areas that require advancement in doing littering behaviour and littering prevention behaviour research, especially, within the continent of Africa.
DETAILS
Presenter: Oluyinka OjedokunHost: Dr Marlin Hoffman
Date: Thursday, 17 March 2022
Time: 12h00
Platform: Zoom
JOIN WEBINAR HERE
ABOUT THE PRESENTER
Oluyinka Ojedokun is an Applied Social and Environmental Psychologist at Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba-Akoko, Ondo State, Nigeria. He received his Ph.D. from the prestigious University of Ibadan, Nigeria, and focused his research on psychosocial factors and responsible environmental behavior (i.e., waste management) in developing countries, an interest that continues to this day.Ojedokun is a recipient of some fellowship and grants: including TETFUND research grant (Institutional Based) in 2016, Meaning-Making Research Initiative 2017 grant, and a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at the North-West University (Mafikeng Campus), South Africa. In addition to authoring chapters in books, he has authored and co authored more articles in reputable international and national journals.
His current research tends toward psychosocial processes underlying environmental behaviors (e.g., littering behavior, plastic littering, open defecation, inappropriate toilet behavior, and pro-environmental behavior).
ABSTRACT
The study of the relationship between attitudes and behaviour has a long tradition in social psychology and is of particular relevance to littering behaviour and littering prevention behaviour research. Sound judgment dictates that positive attitudes towards the environment should predict pro-environmental behaviour or responsible environmental behaviour. For example, it is good sense to expect that people who possess a negative attitude toward littering would engage in littering prevention behaviour. Regrettably, the link between attitudes and behaviour is not that straight. In other words, there exists evidence of a worrying rift/inconsistency between what people say (attitudes) and their behaviour. Notwithstanding this rift, attitude is a useful construct in social psychology, and to that extent, at least to some degree it should predict behaviour, especially, pro-environmental behaviour (e.g., littering prevention behaviour).This webinar will focus on different reasons for expecting consistency between attitudes and behaviour, as well as interrogating models that researchers have developed for understanding the mechanisms through which attitudes shape behaviour. The ultimate goal of environmental behaviour researchers is to bring about a change in people’s behaviour that causes environmental problems. Thus, the presenter will also share experiences and challenges associated with researching littering prevention behaviour in Nigeria. The webinar will conclude by highlighting areas that require advancement in doing littering behaviour and littering prevention behaviour research, especially, within the continent of Africa.
