Commitment and Behavior Change

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Social influence approaches to encourage resource conservation: A meta-analysis (2013, background): “This finding is supported by observations made elsewhere (e.g. Abrahamse et al., 2005; Lokhorst et al., 2013) that interventions have different effects for different target groups.”
Environmental psychology matters. (2014, background): “A third meta-analysis focused on individuals’ commitment to action; the findings confirmed that commitment can be effective but called for further examination of the reasons that it works (Lokhorst et al. 2013).”
Using social norms and commitment to promote pro-environmental behavior among hotel guests (2015, background): “This could be explained by an attitudinal conception of commitment (Cialdini, 2007; Lokhorst et al., 2013) according to which the commitment reinforces individuals' attitudes, which in turn reinforce behavior in a more consequential way (Holland, Verplanken, & Van Knippenberg, 2002; Pardini &…”
Positive and negative spillover of pro-environmental behavior: An integrative review and theoretical framework (2014, background): “Public commitments are commonly used in environmental interventions, and meta-analytic analyses suggest that they can be an effective strategy for motivating behavior change (Abrahamse et al., 2005; Lokhorst et al., 2013).”