@article{ref1,
title="Modern Institutions, Phenomenal Dissociations, and Destructiveness Toward Humans and the Environment",
journal="Organization and environment",
year="2008",
author="Worthy, K.",
volume="21",
number="2",
pages="148-170",
abstract="Environmental theorists frequently argue that human--nature alienations are to blame for the increasingly severe global environmental crisis. This article offers empirical evidence that supports such claims. Data and theory presented here show that phenomenal dissociation-- defined as the lack of immediate, sensual engagement with the consequences of our everyday actions and with the human and nonhuman others that we affect with our actions--increases destructive tendency and that awareness is not enough to curb destructiveness. This study begins to reveal some of the psychodynamics by which phenomenal dissociations lead to destructive tendency; discusses how modern institutions, organizational structures, and technologies propagate harms by mediating between actor and consequences; and argues that environmental psychology, which commonly focuses on attitudinal variables such as awareness and concern, must expand its reach to account for the pervasive phenomenal dissociations of contemporary life.<p />",
language="",
issn="1086-0266",
doi="10.1177/1086026608318987",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1086026608318987"
}