Green defaults : Information presentation and pro-environmental behaviour

By Daniel Pichert, Konstantinos V. Katsikopoulos. 2008

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Marketing

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Climate policy through changing consumption choices: Options and obstacles for reducing greenhouse gas emissions (2014, unknown): “After changing the default to a low GHG electricity mix, the most consumers do not opt out for a cheaper electricity mix with higher GHG intensity (Pichert and Katsikopoulos, 2008).”
Green nudges: Do they work? Are they ethical? (2016, background): “In 2006, more than 99% of electricitymeterswere still supplied by EWS, and this number has hardly changed since (Sunstein and Reisch, 2014; Pichert and Katsikopoulos, 2008).”
Advancing Conservation by Understanding and Influencing Human Behavior (2017, background): “Conservation Letters published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc. 253 sources the default on a power bill increased purchases of renewable energy, compared to when customers had to actively switch away from cheaper conventional energy supplies (Pichert & Katsikopoulos 2008) (Figure 3).”
Motivating Sustainable Food Choices (2014, background): “…to perform a behavior (Abrahamse et al., 2005), behavior change is typically seen only when that information is accompanied by additional efforts at—for example— providing feedback about or removing barriers to the behavior in question (Gardner & Stern, 1996; Pichert & Katsikopoulos, 2008).”
From intention to action: Can nudges help consumers to choose renewable energy? (2014, background): “Our research speaks to policy because in many Western countries a clear majority of consumers exhibit a gap between intention and action: they consume conventional energy, although they prefer renewable energy and would be willing to pay a premium (Kaenzig et al., 2013; Pichert and Katsikopoulos, 20”
Overcoming the Social and Psychological Barriers to Green Building (2008, unknown): “With much of the construction industry still tied to trade unions, positive environmental influence can happen through both management goals and union representation (Pollin & Wicks-Lim, 2008).”
When and why defaults influence decisions: a meta-analysis of default effects (2019, unknown): “This is true of one study in our data, which looked at both the percentage who chose the desired outcome and their willingness to pay (Pichert & Katsikopoulos, 2008).”
A Review and Taxonomy of Choice Architecture Techniques (2016, methodology): “When green energy was the default in a field experiment, more people used green energy compared with the traditional gray energy that was offered as the default in most communities (Pichert & Katsikopoulos, 2008; Sunstein & Reisch, 2013).”
Internal and external barriers to energy efficiency: which role for policy interventions? (2019, background): “…programs as an opt-out rather than an opt-in, or default temperature for heating or washing at low degrees) are able to address the status quo bias (Pichert and Katsikopoulos 2008, McCalley 2006; Brown et al. 2013) because people tend to stick to the status quo (Kahneman et al. 1991).”
Are experienced people affected by a pre-set default option—Results from a field experiment (2009, background): “In the environmental area, Pichert and Katsikopoulosa [9] show that pre-set default options can have significant effects on pro-environmental behavior in the choice of ‘‘green’’ electricity.”
Whatever the customer wants, the customer gets? Exploring the gap between consumer preferences and default electricity products in Germany (2013, background): “Pichert and Katsikopoulos (2008) present first empirical evidence showing that these cognitive biases and mechanisms also hold for default electricity mixes.”