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Television Feedback Used to Modify Gasoline Consumption

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Rothstein, R. N. (1980). Television feedback used to modify gasoline consumption. Behavior Therapy, 11, 5, 683-688.
Provided feedback on the amount of gasoline consumed daily to a mass audience in West Texas via a nightly news television program. The amount of gasoline consumed was reported b…

Personality Characteristics and Environmental Attitudes

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Arbuthnot, J. (1974). Environmental knowledge and recycling behavior as a fuction of attitudes and personality characteristics. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 1, 1, 119-121.
Investigated the relationship between attitudes toward environmental issues and certain personality characteristics related to locus of control, openness of belief system, and per…

The Proof of the Pudding: Making Energy Efficiency Work

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Robinson, J. B. (1991). The proof of the pudding: Making energy efficiency work. Energy Policy, 631-645.
If Western industrialized market economies are to realize a substantial proportion of the potential benefits of increased energy efficiency, there is a need to move beyond enginee…

Factors Influencing Household Recycling Behavior

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Oskamp, S., Harrington, M. J., Edwards, T. C., Sherwood, D. L., Okuda, S. M., & Swanson, D. C. (1991). Factors influencing household recycling behavior. Environment and Behavior, 23, 4, 494-519.
Conducted telephone interviews to study the recycling behavior, attitudes, and knowledge of 221 adults in a suburban city that had begun a citywide curbside recycling program with…

Fear of Technological Hazards: One Concern or Many?

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Pilisuk, M., & Acredolo, C. (1988). Fear of technological hazards: One concern or many?. Social Behaviour, 3, 1, 17-24.
Surveyed 234 males and 218 females living in agricultural, suburban, or high technology areas by phone and by mail questionnaire on their levels of concern about risks associated …

Complexities of Household Energy Consumption and Conservation

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Ritchie, J. R. B., McDougall, G. H. G., & Claxton, J. D. (1981). Complexities of household energy consumption and conservation. Journal of Consumer Research, 8, 3, 233-242.
Used a national sample of Canadian households (N = 2,366) to relate climatic variables, dwelling/appliance/vehicle descriptors, demographic characteristics, and attitudinal variab…

Optimizing Investment Levels for Energy Conservation: Individual versus Social Perspective, and the Role of Uncertainity

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Rabl, A. (1987). Optimizing investment levels for energy conservation: Individual versus social perspective, and the role of uncertainity. Energy Efficiency: Perspectives on Individual Behavior, 101-114.

Psychological or Attitudinal Factors which Influence the Introduction of Energy Conservation Technologies

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Parthasarathy, R. (1989). Psychological or attitudinal factors which influence the introduction of energy conservation technologies. Abhigyan, fall, 36-47.
Energy conservation technologies can be classified in terms of (1) stages of development, (2) the investments required, (3) numbers of items involved, and (4) the beneficiaries. A…

Attitude Toward the Environment as a Special Case of Attitude Toward all Living Things

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Ray, J. J., & Lovejoy, F. H. (1984). Attitude toward the environment as a special case of attitude toward all living things. Journal of Social Psychology, 123, 2, 285-286.
M. Maccoby's (1972) attitude scale, which measures E. Fromm's (1973) concept of "biophilia" (emotional commitment to life), was administered to 45 university students, 54 Ss from …

Environmental Evaluations and Participation Activities: A Social Psychological Field Study

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Prester, G., Rohrmann, B., & Schellhammer, E. (1987). Environmental evaluations and participation activities: A social psychological field study. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 17, 9, 751-787.
Investigated the determinants of protest vs passivity in a situation of environmental deterioration, using questionnaire data from 229 West Germans in an urban area where plans fo…

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