Showing papers in "Journal of Economic Psychology in 1983"

TL;DR: In this article, a model is proposed that relates personal, environmental (eg home) and behavioral factors to energy use, which is instrumental in relating variables that determine energy use in the home In the following these determinants of household energy use: socio-demographic factors, family life-style, energy prices, energyrelated behavior, cost-benefit trade offs, effectiveness and responsibility, feedback, information, home characteristics are discussed In the third section several options for energy-saving campaigns and related research are discussed

TL;DR: In this article, a set of hypotheses related to the importance of four types of perceived risks in nine product classes were examined and the relieving ability of nine risk-reducing strategies was investigated.

TL;DR: In this paper, a field experiment was carried out to test the effects on conservation of four strategies: general information about how to conserve energy in the home, weekly feedback with respect to the magnitude and financial consequences of people's personal energy consumption compared with the consumption of people in comparable settings (i.e., same houses), weekly comparative feedback and financial reinforcement for decreases in energy use.

TL;DR: The extent to which United States consumers have taken lifestyle cutbacks in eleven expenditure areas as a result of higher energy prices is examined in this paper, which brings into question whether a market-oriented conservation policy will increase the taking of conservation actions, but also raise a disturbing question about existing tax credit programs.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the impact of the foot-in-the-door technique on residential energy conservation and explore the implications of minimal justification techniques for producing long-term maintenance of energy conserving behaviors and for promoting their occurrence across a large population of individuals.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors focused on energy-related behavioral patterns of 145 households in Vlaardingen, The Netherlands, based on self-reported behaviors of 145 individuals in the Netherlands.

TL;DR: For instance, this article found that if they had to send a cheque as a gift, they would spend more than twice as much on it as on the other kinds of presents.

TL;DR: In this paper, a psychological framework depicting the determinants of tax evasion behavior is introduced and a review of the literature generally confirms the proposed conception, and results of a small-scale study (N = 111) lend further support to the approach.

TL;DR: In this article, a three-year period, a stratified random sample of residential electricity consumers in Northeastern Wisconsin, USA were placed on one of three time-of-day price ratios, 2:1, 4:1 or 8:1.

TL;DR: In this article, the understanding of economics of 89 Israeli children, aged 7-17, was probed by means of interviews and questionnaires, including commerce, production, strikes, capital investment, and the causes of inflation.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluate various policy options for relieving fuel poverty, including increasing incomes to pay for fuel costs, increasing benefits, introducing a fuel allowance or extending the existing scheme of additional heating requirements.

TL;DR: In this paper, the impact of normative pressure on energy conservation based on the data of the questionnaire was examined theoretically, and it was shown that the influence of social norms on intentions to conserve energy appeared to be rather weak, leading to a pessimistic view about the effectiveness of a normative approach.

TL;DR: In this article, a questionnaire dealing with the operation of the bank and shop transactions was given to Hong Kong boys, aged 6 to 13, and the results showed that the experience was found to produce a significant improvement in the understanding of bank among 10 to 13 year old boys, and of shop profit among 8 to 10 year old children.

TL;DR: This article examined the relationship between Protestant Work Ethic beliefs, social value systems and attitudes toward taxation and found that those who strongly endorsed the Protestant work ethic were more opposed to taxation than those who did not strongly endorse these beliefs.

TL;DR: In this article, a theoretical framework is proposed to provide a comprehensive and integrative view of energy use behavior, examining variables that create and maintain particular types and intensities of energy consumption behavior.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors propose a theoretical framework for the definition and explanation of tax resistance, and discuss tax compliance and tax mentality as well as theoretical work on free-riding, exchanging and gift-giving.

TL;DR: This article investigated six alternative strategies for promoting energy conservation: financial incentives, community programs, efficiency standards, land-use changes, consumption limits, and price increases, and found that public acceptance of these strategies varies widely, from 83 percent for financial incentives to 9 percent for price increases.

TL;DR: In this paper, the mutual predictability between the Index of Consumer Sentiment and non-attitudinal economic indicator using linear regressions on aggregate time-series data for several EEC member countries was investigated.

TL;DR: In this paper, a model of postpurchase evaluation processes is presented, which is used as a theoretical framework for explaining different kinds of consumer complaint actions, and several hypotheses regarding consumer complaint behavior (actions) are derived and empirically tested.

TL;DR: In this paper, a sophisticated, media-based approach, developed from a detailed marketing plan, is described as the foundation of a basic program, but such a program would be experimental in nature and contain subparts to carefully evaluate other strategies (e.g., diffusion, feedback).

TL;DR: In this paper, a comparison of gasoline and home heating energy conservers from a single sample is provided, and evidence is provided that these are two unique groups and that those who are conserververs in both areas form a third unique group that is closer to the original notion of a generalized conservation ethic.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors focused on consumer motion picture motives and choice criteria, and examined the predictive ability of movie motives and consumers' attribute importances in preference regressions of four types of movies, and carried out a motion picture choice analysis by predicting audience membership with discriminant analysis.

TL;DR: In another study, this article found that adults consistently under-estimate the size of all British notes and overestimate the old pound note (withdrawn in 1979) and underestimate the new pound note.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used a questionnaire to ask individuals directly about their perceptions of and preferences for public spending and found that public expenditure perceptions and preferences showed consistent and predictable patterns among young individuals with little or no experience of paying tax.

TL;DR: In this article, attribute importance is introduced as a mediating variable between the quality judgment and informational value of cues, and all product attributes are classified into two different categories, revealed vs. hidden attributes.

TL;DR: The results of a survey of inflationary expectations executed in 1979-1980 are reported in this article, where respondents form one "informed" and one "uninformed" group, and the results suggest that the adaptive expectations formation model works best for the uninformed group, while the extrapolative model is more satisfactory for the informed group.

TL;DR: In this paper, potential social implications are discussed, especially with reference to equity and distributional impacts and to the voluntariness dimension, and two ideal types of instruments are considered which are the mainstreams underlying the present energy conservation debate.

TL;DR: The authors examined the perceptions and values of commuters in Toronto concerning public transit and the private car and found that respondents were characterized by their predominant commuting mode and provided ratings of the perceived benefits of the modes available.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on the symbolic significance of energy consuming technology and the case of the automobile and demonstrate that it cannot be considered just a technical device for transporting people but that it is also a cultural symbol infused with desires, meanings and life-images.

TL;DR: For example, this article found that seven-sided white coins were more valuable than 12-sided or circular coins of about the same diameter, and the absolute values assigned to such coins followed a similar trend to the relative values.