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Nudging: A promising tool for sustainable consumption behaviour?

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Mont et al. as mentioned in this paper analyzed existing academic knowledge on nudge and choice architecture, and investigated lessons about effectiveness of applied nudge tools and approaches in consumption domains of energy use in the home, food and mobility, and discussed opportunities and limitations for devising more successful nudge in the three consumption domains.
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This article is published in Journal of Cleaner Production.The article was published on 2016-10-15. It has received 314 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Nudge theory & Choice architecture.

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Does the COVID-19 outbreak mark the onset of a sustainable consumption transition?

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Green nudges: Do they work? Are they ethical?

TL;DR: The authors provide a structured overview of the most important contributions to the literature on pro-environmental nudges and, second, offer some critical considerations that may help the practitioner come to an ethically informed assessment of nudges.
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Reducing energy demand through low carbon innovation: A sociotechnical transitions perspective and thirteen research debates

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Consumption in the circular economy: A literature review

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present the results of a literature review that summarises and discusses insights from 111 articles in terms of the problem area, theoretical approaches, methods, and tools that have been used to collect and analyse data, the main issues, and identified research gaps.
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Healthy, sustainable and plant-based eating : perceived (mis)match and involvement-based consumer segments as targets for future policy

TL;DR: Investigating consumer perceptions of the match, or mismatch, between healthy and sustainable diets gives insight into consumers’ motivation to eat healthily and sustainably, as measured by involvement, emerges as a key trigger for increasinghealthy and sustainable eating.
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Judgment Under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases

TL;DR: The authors described three heuristics that are employed in making judgements under uncertainty: representativeness, availability of instances or scenarios, and adjustment from an anchor, which is usually employed in numerical prediction when a relevant value is available.
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Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness

TL;DR: In Nudge as discussed by the authors, Thaler and Sunstein argue that human beings are susceptible to various biases that can lead us to blunder and make bad decisions involving education, personal finance, health care, mortgages and credit cards, the family, and even the planet itself.
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Social Influence: Compliance and Conformity

TL;DR: This review covers recent developments in the social influence literature, focusing primarily on compliance and conformity research published between 1997 and 2002, and emphasizes the ways in which these goals interact with external forces to engender social influence processes that are subtle, indirect, and outside of awareness.
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Encouraging pro-environmental behaviour : An integrative review and research agenda

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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A Room with a Viewpoint: Using Social Norms to Motivate Environmental Conservation in Hotels

TL;DR: This paper examined the effectiveness of signs requesting hotel guests' participation in an environmental conservation program and found that normative appeals were more effective when describing group behavior that occurred in the setting that most closely matched individuals' immediate situational circumstances, referred to as provincial norms.
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How does nudging impact the promotion of sustainable product adoption?

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