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Analyzing Changes in Waste Reduction Behavior in a Low-Income Urban Community Following a Public Outreach Program

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Margai, F. L. (1997). Analyzing changes in waste reduction behavior in a low-income urban community following a public outreach program. Environment and Behavior, 29, 6, 769-792.
Investigated changes in waste reduction behavior in East Harlem, NY, before and after an educational outreach program. Using focus groups and survey data, the attitudinal and beha…

Resource Recovery: Use of a Group Contingency to Increase Paper Recycling in an Elementary School

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Hamad, C. D., Cooper, D. & Semb, G. (1977). Resource recovery: Use of a group contingency to increase paper recycling in an elementary school. Journal of Applied Psychology, 62, 6, 768-772.
Recycling has been suggested as a means for replenishing dwindling energy supplies, reducing solid waste accumulation, and conserving natural resource bases. In the present study,…

The Development of an Environmental Values Short Form

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Zimmermann, L. K. (1996). The development of an environmental values short form. Journal of Environmental Education, 28, 1, 32-37.
Developed a scale to assess environmental values in adults and, eventually, children. First, several subscales from the Children's Environmental Response Inventory (CERI; T. E. Bu…

Teaching the Concept of Precycling: A Campaign and Evaluation

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Gillilan, Sheryl; Werner, Carol M.; Olson, Lynne; Adams, Dorothy (1996). Teaching the Concept of Precycling: A Campaign and Evaluation. Journal of Environmental Education, 28, 1, 11-18.
Evaluated the extent to which shoppers acquired knowledge about precycling from radio, TV and in-store advertising campaign (ADC) and whether that knowledge was translated into se…

Recycling and Morality: A Critical Review of the Literature

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Thogersen, J. (1996). Recycling and morality: A critical review of the literature. Environment and Behavior, 28, 4, 536-558.
Provides a brief literature review with the intention of uncovering problems and shortcomings in the framework of the Subjective Expected Utility model and the Theory of Reasoned …

Green Buying: The Influence of Environmental Concern on Consumer Behavior

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Mainieri, T., Barnett, E. G., Valdero,T. & Unipan, J. B. (1997). Green buying: The influence of environmental concern on consumer behavior. Journal of Social Psychology, 137, 2, 189-204.
Investigated variables that predict "green buying" (i.e., buying products that are environmentally beneficial). These included awareness about environmental impacts of products, s…

Effort as a Moderator of the Attitude-Behavior Relationship: General Environmental Concern and Recycling

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Schultz, P. W. & Oskamp, S. (1996). Effort as a moderator of the attitude-behavior relationship: General environmental concern and recycling. Social Psychology Quarterly, 59, 4, 375-383.
Examined the role of effort in the link between attitudes and behavior, and tested the possibility that effort can reconcile the disparate findings on the relationship between env…

Pro-Environmental Habits: Propensity Levels in Behavioral Change

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Dahlstrand, U. & Biel, A. (1997). Pro-environmental habits: Propensity levels in behavioral change. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 27, 7, 588-601.
Examined relationships between habits, beliefs about products, choice criteria for purchasing, and perceptions of such factors, applied to the area of buying home detergents and w…

Emotional Subtexts in Corporate Greening

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Fineman, S. (1996). Emotional subtexts in corporate greening. Organization Studies, 17, 3, 479-500.
Explores the view that pro-environmental organizational changes depend on the emotional meanings that managers attribute to greening, and discusses the strategic role of emotions …

Dual "Realities" of Conservation Behavior: Self-Reports vs Observations of Re-Use and Recycling Behavior

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Corral-Verdugo, V. (1997). Dual "realities" of conservation behavior: Self-reports vs observations of re-use and recycling behavior. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 17, 2, 135-145.
Housewives in 100 randomly selected Mexican families self-reported their re-use/recycling, and direct observations were made of the frequency of re-used/recycled items in those fa…
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