Social influence approaches to encourage resource conservation: A meta-analysis

By W. Abrahamse, L. Steg. 2013

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Subfields: Applied Psychology, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Marketing

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Contingent effects of social norms on tourists’ pro-environmental behaviours: the role of Chinese traditionality (2020, background): “Concerning the elicitation of PEBs, social norms are widely recognised as a powerful lever (Abrahamse & Steg, 2013; Gossling et al., 2019; Stern, 2000; Thogersen, 2006).”
Internal and external barriers to energy efficiency: which role for policy interventions? (2019, background): “…instruments comparison affects energy use, a meta-analysis of 30 different studies published between 1976 and 2013 concludes that peer comparison is less powerful than other social influence interventions, because it delivers the feedback in a fairly anonymous way (Abrahamse and Steg 2013).”
A Social Norms Intervention Going Wrong: Boomerang Effects from Descriptive Norms Information (2018, background): “However, providing information has in itself not proven effective at increasing sustainable choices [9,10].”
Societal Transformations in Models for Energy and Climate Policy: The Ambitious Next Step (2019, background): “Meta-analyses provide a good starting point.(90,91) As is often observed, though, evidence from social sciences usually comes from case studies that are very sparse for global and long-term coverage, segmented, and hard to harmonize as a”
How social norms are often a barrier to addressing climate change but can be part of the solution (2020, methodology): “…conservation behaviors such as saving residential water and energy (Schultz et al., 2007; Allcott, 2011; Brent et al., 2015; for a review, see Abrahamse & Steg, 2013), adopting sustainable technologies such as solar panels (Bollinger & Gillingham, 2012) and electric vehicles (Barth et al.,…”
Social norms and pro-environmental behavior: A review of the evidence (2017, background): “Abrahamse and Steg (2013) provide a meta-analysis of different types of peer in ﬂ uence interventions, including the block leader approach, public commitment and modeling, group feedback, socially comparative feedback (providing information about one's behavior relative to the behavior of others),…”
Technical potentials and costs for reducing global anthropogenic methane emissions in the 2050 timeframe –results from the GAINS model (2020, background): “Further abatement potential from institutional changes (Evans and Steven 2009) and behavioural changes (Abrahamse and Steg 2013, Camilleri et al 2019)will be necessary butmay take longer to realize.”
Influencing Factors of Chinese Consumers’ Purchase Intention to Sustainable Apparel Products: Exploring Consumer “Attitude–Behavioral Intention” Gap (2020, background): “There has been a consensus that the social environment strongly affects people’s intentions and behaviors [40–43] (Fishbein and Ajzen, 2011; Abrahamse and Steg, 2013; Joshi and Rahman, 2015; Kim and Seock, 2019).”