Anthropogenic carbon emissions have the potential to trigger changes in climate and
ecosystems that would be catastrophic for the well-being of humans and other species …

Human behavior is responsible for many of our greatest environmental challenges. The
accumulated effects of many individual and household decisions have major negative …

It is well known that people conform to normative information about other people's current
attitudes and behaviors. Do they also conform to dynamic norms—information about how …

Inattention and imperfect information bias behavior toward the salient and immediately
visible. This distortion creates costs for individuals, the organizations in which they work, and …

This article discusses the use of green nudges—behavioral interventions aimed at reducing
negative externalities—as an environmental policy instrument. We present a new framework …

We argue that the behavioral challenges posed by climate change are fundamentally
problems of social influence. Behaviors that perpetuate climate change are often opaque in …

Excess use of disposable to-go-cups constitutes a severe sustainability threat. Behavioral
economics and economic psychology suggest various antidotes. In the present paper, we …

Behavioural interventions that leverage social norms are widely used to foster energy
conservation. For instance, home energy reports combine information on others' behaviour …

The seminal studies by Allcott and Mullainathan (2010), Allcott (2011), and Allcott and
Rogers (2014) show that social comparison-based home energy reports (HER) are a cost …

How can we curb the current norm of unsustainable levels of meat consumption? Research
on dynamic norms finds that learning that others are starting to eat less meat can inspire …