Preparing for the Environmental Decade: A Field Experiment on Recycling Behavior

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Krendl, K. A., Olson, B., & Burke, R. (1992). Preparing for the environmental decade: A field experiment on recycling behavior. Journal of Applied Communication Research, 20, 1, 19-36.
Examines the impact of a communication campaign designed to encourage recycling participation in a community curbside pickup program. Residents in the study were contacted in 1 of…

Personality Variables and Environmental Attitudes as Predictors of Ecologically Responsible Consumption Patterns. Special Issue: Marketing Research

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Balderjahn, I. (1988). Personality variables and environmental attitudes as predictors of ecologically responsible consumption patterns. Special Issue: Marketing research. Journal of Business Research, 17, 1, 51-56.
A causal model of ecologically concerned consumers is analyzed by the LISREL approach. Demographic, socioeconomic, cultural, personality, and attitudinal variables are specified t…

Recycling as a Marketing Problem: A Framework for Strategy Development. Special Issue: Psychology, Marketing, and Recycling

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Shrum, L. J., Lowrey, T. M., & McCarty, J. A. (1994). Recycling as a marketing problem: A framework for strategy development. Special Issue: Psychology, marketing, and recycling. Psychology and Marketing, 11, 4, 393-416.
Provides a framework for integrating past recycling research by conceptualizing recycling compliance as a marketing problem. Within a social marketing framework, recycling behavio…

The Role of Memory in Understanding and Encouraging Recycling Behavior. Special Issue: Psychology, Marketing, and Recycling

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Heckler, S. E. (1994). The role of memory in understanding and encouraging recycling behavior. Special Issue: Psychology, marketing, and recycling. Psychology and Marketing, 11, 4, 375-392.
Explores the role of memory processes in 2 aspects of recycling behavior. First, traditional research in cognitive psychology, communication, and consumer behavior is discussed br…

Consumer Recycling Goals and their Effect on Decisions to Recycle: A Means-End Chain Analysis. Special Issue: Psychology, Marketing, and Recycling

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Bagozzi, R. P., & Dabholkar, P. A. (1994). Consumer recycling goals and their effect on decisions to recycle: A means-end chain analysis. Special Issue: Psychology, marketing, and recycling. Psychology and Marketing, 11, 4, 313-340.
Means-end chain theory and the laddering methodology were used to derive the goals relevant to consumers for recycling, as well as the interrelations among goals. Data were collec…

The Effect of Commitment on Adoption and Diffusion of Grass Cycling. Special Issue: Litter Control and Recycling

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Cobern, M. K., Porter, B.E., Leeming, F.C., & Dwyer, W.O. (1995). The effect of commitment on adoption and diffusion of grass cycling. Special Issue: Litter control and recycling. Environment and Behavior, 27, 2, 213-232.
Tested the effects of 2 levels of commitment to grass cycling (GC; i.e., not bagging grass clippings). During 4 wks of baseline, data were collected for all houses in 3 homogenous…

Joint Effect of Feedback and Goal Setting on Performance: A Field Study of Residential Energy Conservation

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Becker, L. J. (1978). Joint effect of feedback and goal setting on performance: A field study of residential energy conservation. Journal of Applied Psychology, 63, 4, 428-433.
The facilitating motivational effect of feedback on performance has been attributed by some to difficult goals set in response to feedback. In the present article the effect was …

The Effect of a Conservation Program on Schoolchildren's Attitudes toward the Environment

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Ryan, C. (1991). The effect of a conservation program on schoolchildren’s attitudes toward the environment. Journal of Environmental Education, 22, 4, 30-35.
In this article, the author examines the issue of whether there are any discernible effects of a conservation educational program for fifth-grade schoolchildren a year after a vis…

Counting on Blood Donors: Increasing the Impact of Reminder Calls

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Lipsitz, A., Kallmeyer, K., Ferguson, M., & Abas, A. (1989). Counting on blood donors: Increasing the impact of reminder calls. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 19, 13, 1057-1067.
Two experiments were conducted to see if blood drive attendance could be increased by altering the content of reminder calls. In Experiment 1 college students received either a s…

A Structural Model of Environmental Attitudes and Behaviour. Special Issue: Green Psychology

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Grob, A. (1995). A structural model of environmental attitudes and behaviour. Special Issue: Green psychology. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 15, 3, 209-220.
The multivariate relationship between environmental attitudes and pro-environmental behavior was examined. In two studies a structural model linking environmental awareness, emot…
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