TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2008//
TI  - Modern Institutions, Phenomenal Dissociations, and Destructiveness Toward Humans and the Environment
JO  - Organization and environment
A1  - Worthy, K.
SP  - 148
EP  - 170
VL  - 21
IS  - 2
N2  - 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 />
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SN  - 1086-0266
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1086026608318987
ID  - ref1
ER  -