This NY Times article entitled "Green Development? Not in my (Liberal) Backyard." The article discusses how neighborhoods famously known for their liberal pro-environment stance will not allow changes in their community to actually support environmental projects such as bike lanes or wind turbines. The article calls this Nimbyism, but students in Psy 240 know it better as Apparent Hypocricy -- the cognitive error that Elkind identified where adolescents will profess to endorse a certain value or belief, but they are unwilling to change their own lifestyle to go along with those beliefs. How might adults who are still experiencing this cognitive error be scaffolded (aka Vygotsky) into making their behaviors congruent with their beliefs?
Monday, March 14, 2011
Adolescent Hypocricy in Adulthood
This NY Times article entitled "Green Development? Not in my (Liberal) Backyard." The article discusses how neighborhoods famously known for their liberal pro-environment stance will not allow changes in their community to actually support environmental projects such as bike lanes or wind turbines. The article calls this Nimbyism, but students in Psy 240 know it better as Apparent Hypocricy -- the cognitive error that Elkind identified where adolescents will profess to endorse a certain value or belief, but they are unwilling to change their own lifestyle to go along with those beliefs. How might adults who are still experiencing this cognitive error be scaffolded (aka Vygotsky) into making their behaviors congruent with their beliefs?
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