Daniel Schwartz

TL;DR: The authors used behavioral decision research to understand consumer beliefs about smart meters, including in-depth mental models interviews and a follow-up survey with a sample of potential smart meter customers of a major U.S. mid-Atlantic electricity utility.

TL;DR: Examining how the Hawthorne effect emerges in a large field experiment focused on residential consumers’ electricity use found evidence for a Hawthorne (study participation) effect, seen in a reduction of their electricity use—even though they received no information, instruction, or incentives to change.

TL;DR: It was found that emphasizing a program's monetary benefits reduced participants' willingness to enroll, and participants' explanations about enrollment revealed less attention to environmental concerns when programs emphasized monetary savings, even when environmental savings were also emphasized.

TL;DR: This paper found that sadness-inducing videos lead to more time devoted to an energy-footprint calculator and greater donations to an environmental organization than non-affective videos, while warning people that emotions, and their effects on behavior, cool off does not reverse the effects of the time delay unless people make a nonbinding commitment just after watching the affective ad.

TL;DR: The results suggest that significant interaid performance differences on the hearing aid evaluation are not likely to occur very often when the aids being evaluated are relatively homogeneous electroacoustically, and that the performance hierarchy is likely to change as the patient adjusts to amplification.