Findings showed that virtual simulations of a natural and urban environment elicit similar effects as real counterparts of these environments.
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Our findings highlight the importance of digital media in disseminating family planning (FP) information among young women and their networks, the differences in norms governing the acceptability to talk about FP online vs. in-person and the significance of targeting misinformation about FP in digital media spaces.
In this paper, a novel distributed control strategy addressing a (feasible) psycho-social-physical welfare problem in islanded Direct Current (DC) smart grids is proposed.
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Here we conduct three survey studies across five countries and we use cross-sectional and experimental research designs to examine a central hypothesis: employees may internalize their organization’s pro-environmental goals, and this may further encourage pro-environmental actions. Our results suggest that perceived CER is associated with more pro-environmental behavior at work through strengthening employees’ intrinsic pro-environmental motivation rather than through changing social norms.
This study investigates ethical concerns as the basis of emotions. We test whether people perceive an unequal distribution of negative outcomes of a local energy project as more unfair than an equal distribution thereof and, in turn, experience stronger negative emotions (hypothesis 1) and whether these effects depend on whether the project has personal consequences or not (i.e. the self-relevance of the project; hypothesis 2).
This paper argues that the value-action gap can to a large extent be explained by a choice architecture which promotes unsustainable behaviours. Therefore, we present a redesign of choice architecture in the context of meat consumption, to stimulate people to act in line with their values.
Overall, our findings suggest sustainable energy policy acceptability depends on the extent to which individuals benefit from the policy.
We compared the effects of environmental information with versus without dynamic norm information on encouraging reductions in meat consumption, and whether effects would depend on receivers’ intrinsic motivation.
People are increasingly exposed to climate-related hazards, including floods, droughts, and vector-borne diseases. A broad repertoire of adaptation actions is needed to adapt to these various hazards.
We examined to what extent different dimensions of trust, notably integrity- and competence-based trust, are associated with public acceptability of real ongoing energy projects associated with acute risks and other consequences.
