A review of intervention studies aimed at household energy conservation
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In this paper, the authors reviewed and evaluated the effectiveness of interventions aiming to encourage households to reduce energy consumption by changing individual knowledge and perceptions rather than changing contextual factors (i.e., pay-off structure) which may determine households' behavioral decisions.About:
This article is published in Journal of Environmental Psychology.The article was published on 2005-09-01 and is currently open access. It has received 2453 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Psychological intervention & Behavior change.read more
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Encouraging pro-environmental behaviour : An integrative review and research agenda
Linda Steg,Charles Vlek +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the contribution and potential of environmental psychology for understanding and promoting pro-environmental behaviour is discussed. But, the authors focus on four main factors underlying human behaviour patterns: identification of the behaviour to be changed, examination of the main factors behind this behaviour, design and application of interventions to change behaviour to reduce environmental impact, and evaluation of the effects of interventions.
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Social Norms and Energy Conservation
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TL;DR: In this paper, a series of programs run by a company called OPOWER to send Home Energy Report letters to residential utility customers comparing their electricity use to that of their neighbors is evaluated.
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Feedback on household electricity consumption: a tool for saving energy?
TL;DR: A psychological model is presented that illustrates how and why feedback works, and some indication that the most successful feedback combines the following features: it is given frequently and over a long time, provides an appliance-specific breakdown, is presented in a clear and appealing way, and uses computerized and interactive tools.
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Household actions can provide a behavioral wedge to rapidly reduce US carbon emissions
TL;DR: This work uses a behavioral approach to examine the reasonably achievable potential for near-term reductions by altered adoption and use of available technologies in US homes and nonbusiness travel and estimates the plasticity of 17 household action types in 5 behaviorally distinct categories.
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Personal and social factors that influence pro-environmental concern and behaviour: a review
Robert Gifford,Andreas Nilsson +1 more
TL;DR: The number of these influences suggests that understanding pro-environmental concern and behaviour is far more complex than previously thought, and a primary goal of researchers now should be to learn more about how these many influences moderate and mediate one another to determine pro-Environmental behaviour.
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