Dr Chris Bretter
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
School of Business
Researcher biography
I am an environmental psychologist interested in the intersection of psychology and environmental behaviour. As such, I have researched the psychological mechanisms underpinning individual support for climate policies, sustainable transport and food waste behaviour. More recently, I have become interested in how misinformation shapes (or impedes) environmental behaviour, the sources and consequences of misinformation beliefs, and in examining possible avenues to reduce beliefs in misinformation.
Book Chapter
Russell, Sally V., Padfield, Rory W. and Bretter, Christian (2023). An introduction to A Research Agenda For Sustainability And Business. A research agenda for sustainability and business. (pp. 1-17) edited by Sally V. Russell and Rory W. Padfield. Cheltenham, United Kingdom: Edward Elgar Publishing. doi: 10.4337/9781839107719.00008
Journal Articles
Bretter, Christian and Pangbourne, Kate (2025). Emotions as antecedents of sustainable travel behaviour. Travel Behaviour and Society, 38 100903, 100903. doi: 10.1016/j.tbs.2024.100903
Osberg, Gustav, Schulz, Felix and Bretter, Christian (2024). Navigating sustainable futures: the role of terminal and instrumental values. Ecological Economics, 225 108325, 108325. doi: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2024.108325
Bretter, Christian, Sharma, Hemant and Pangbourne, Kate (2024). Understanding car-sharing by integrating long-, medium- and short-term cognitions. Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour, 107, 985-996. doi: 10.1016/j.trf.2024.10.020
Bretter, Christian and Schulz, Felix (2024). Climate policy support in the UK: An interaction of worldviews and policy types. Policy Studies Journal. doi: 10.1111/psj.12570
Guo, Wenjing, Unsworth, Kerrie, Bretter, Christian and Davis, Matthew (2024). When and How does in‐role pro‐environmental behavior spill over to extra‐role behavior: two experimental studies in the retail and education industries. Business Strategy and the Environment, 33 (6), 5855-5872. doi: 10.1002/bse.3782
Bretter, Christian, Unsworth, Kerrie L. and Robinson, Mark A. (2023). The effect of non-verbal mimicry on evaluations in interactions with cognitively (dis)similar individuals. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 77 (8), 1678-1693. doi: 10.1177/17470218231208699
Bretter, Christian and Schulz, Felix (2023). Public support for decarbonization policies in the UK: exploring regional variations and policy instruments. Climate Policy, 24 (1), 117-137. doi: 10.1080/14693062.2023.2273302
Bretter, Christian, Unsworth, Kerrie L., Russell, Sally V., Quested, Tom E., Kaptan, Gülbanu and Doriza, Aggelina (2023). Food waste interventions: experimental evidence of the effectiveness of environmental messages. Journal of Cleaner Production, 414 137596, 137596. doi: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2023.137596
Bretter, Christian, Unsworth, Kerrie L., Kaptan, Gülbanu and Russell, Sally V. (2023). It is just wrong: moral foundations and food waste. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 88 102021, 102021. doi: 10.1016/j.jenvp.2023.102021
Bretter, Christian and Schulz, Felix (2023). Why focusing on “climate change denial” is counterproductive. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 120 (10) e2217716120, e2217716120. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2217716120
Bretter, Christian, Unsworth, Kerrie L. and Robinson, Mark A. (2022). Watching the mimickers: mimicry and identity in observed interactions. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 29 (2), 398-413. doi: 10.1037/xap0000462
Bretter, Christian, Unsworth, Kerrie L., Russell, Sally V., Quested, Tom E., Doriza, Aggelina and Kaptan, Gülbanu (2022). Don't put all your eggs in one basket: Testing an integrative model of household food waste. Resources, Conservation and Recycling, 185 106442, 106442. doi: 10.1016/j.resconrec.2022.106442
Unsworth, Kerrie L., Davis, Matthew C., Russell, Sally V. and Bretter, Christian (2021). Employee green behaviour: How organizations can help the environment. Current Opinion in Psychology, 42, 1-6. doi: 10.1016/j.copsyc.2020.12.006