There are many factors that hinder ecological sustainability, and the fact that people can develop a cognitive bias toward curtailment in environmentally friendly behaviors seems to be one of them. That is, people believe that the environmental impact of a later good curtailment behavior can compensate for the environmental impact of an initial bad environmental damage behavior, which is also called compensatory green belief. And in fact, curtailment behavior as a cure for the symptoms of environmental behavior does not have a compensatory effect. This paper builds on previous research to refine generalized environmentally friendly behaviors by exploring the compensatory green beliefs people hold about curtailment behaviors in two studies that extend from collective environmental governance (study 1) to individual environmental governance contexts (study 2). It was found that compensatory green beliefs about curtailment behavior were stable in the collective environmental governance context. In the individual environmental governance context, people hold stronger explicit compensatory green beliefs about pollution-initiated curtailment behavior, but not implicit compensatory green beliefs. Overall, people's misconceptions about environmental behavior are one of the factors that hinder ecological sustainability.

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关于限电行为的补偿性绿色信念：“亡羊补牢，胜于未雨绸缪”

阻碍生态可持续性的因素有很多，而人们对环保行为的削减可能产生认知偏见，这似乎就是其中之一。即人们相信后来的良好限电行为对环境的影响可以补偿最初不良的环境破坏行为对环境的影响，也称为补偿性绿色信念。事实上，限电行为作为环境行为症状的治疗手段并不具有补偿作用。本文以之前的研究为基础，通过从集体环境治理（研究 1）到个人环境治理背景（研究 2）的两项研究，探讨人们对限电行为所持有的补偿性绿色信念，从而完善广义的环境友好行为。研究发现，在集体环境治理背景下，关于限电行为的补偿性绿色信念是稳定的。在个体环境治理背景下，人们对污染引发的限电行为持有更强的显性补偿性绿色信念，而不是隐性补偿性绿色信念。总体而言，人们对环境行为的误解是阻碍生态可持续性的因素之一。