[HTML][HTML] Household energy use: Applying behavioural economics to understand consumer decision-making and behaviour

ER Frederiks, K Stenner, EV Hobman - Renewable and Sustainable …, 2015 - Elsevier
Household energy conservation has emerged as a major challenge and opportunity for
researchers, practitioners and policymakers. Consumers also seem to be gaining greater …

Positive and negative spillover of pro-environmental behavior: An integrative review and theoretical framework

HB Truelove, AR Carrico, EU Weber, KT Raimi… - Global Environmental …, 2014 - Elsevier
A recent surge of research has investigated the potential of pro-environmental behavior
interventions to affect other pro-environmental behaviors not initially targeted by the …

Public service motivation: A systematic literature review and outlook

A Ritz, GA Brewer, O Neumann - Public Administration Review, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Over the past two decades, research on public service motivation has seen rapid growth.
Despite the relatively large number of publications to date, no systematic research overview …

A meta-analytic review of moral licensing

I Blanken, N Van De Ven… - Personality and Social …, 2015 - journals.sagepub.com
Moral licensing refers to the effect that when people initially behave in a moral way, they are
later more likely to display behaviors that are immoral, unethical, or otherwise problematic …

Moral self‐licensing: When being good frees us to be bad

AC Merritt, DA Effron, B Monin - Social and personality …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Past good deeds can liberate individuals to engage in behaviors that are immoral, unethical,
or otherwise problematic, behaviors that they would otherwise avoid for fear of feeling or …

Do green products make us better people?

N Mazar, CB Zhong - Psychological science, 2010 - journals.sagepub.com
Consumer choices reflect not only price and quality preferences but also social and moral
values, as witnessed in the remarkable growth of the global market for organic and …

Self-serving justifications: Doing wrong and feeling moral

S Shalvi, F Gino, R Barkan… - Current directions in …, 2015 - journals.sagepub.com
Unethical behavior by “ordinary” people poses significant societal and personal challenges.
We present a novel framework centered on the role of self-serving justification to build upon …

The nature of slacktivism: How the social observability of an initial act of token support affects subsequent prosocial action

K Kristofferson, K White, J Peloza - Journal of Consumer …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Prior research offers competing predictions regarding whether an initial token display of
support for a cause (such as wearing a ribbon, signing a petition, or joining a Facebook …

Collective efficacy increases pro-environmental intentions through increasing self-efficacy

P Jugert, KH Greenaway, M Barth, R Büchner… - Journal of …, 2016 - Elsevier
We discuss prior findings that enhancing perceptions of collective efficacy encourages pro-
environmental behavior. We suggest that collective efficacy manipulations affect pro …

For better or for worse? Empirical evidence of moral licensing in a behavioral energy conservation campaign

V Tiefenbeck, T Staake, K Roth, O Sachs - Energy Policy, 2013 - Elsevier
Isolated environmental campaigns focusing on defined target behaviors are rolled out to
millions of households every year. Yet it is still unclear whether these programs trigger cross …