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DOI	10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2013.07.029
	Social influence approaches to encourage resource conservation: A meta-analysis
	Abrahamse W.; Steg L.
发表日期	2013
ISSN	0959-3780
卷号	23 期号:6
英文摘要	Would somebody be more willing to start recycling if they knew that their friends were all recycling? Social influence refers to the ways in which our behaviour is affected by what other people do, or by what other people think. Various insights from theories of social influence have been applied as part of interventions to encourage resource conservation, such as the use of social norms, social learning, and social comparison processes. The question arises: Is social influence as effective as is sometimes assumed? This review compares the effectiveness of different social influence approaches to encourage resource conservation via a meta-analysis and outlines what remains to be learned about the mechanisms linking social influence to behaviour change. A random-effects meta-analysis with a sample of 29 studies revealed that social influence approaches were effective when compared to a control group. They were also more effective when compared to another intervention, although in this case the effect size was small. The effectiveness was different for different social influence approaches and for different target groups. These findings raise a number of important questions, which form the basis of a research agenda for better understanding the processes through which social influence approaches encourage resource conservation. © 2013 Elsevier Ltd.
英文关键词	Behavior change; Meta-analysis; Resource conservation; Social influence
学科领域	meta-analysis; recycling; resource management; social behavior
语种	英语
scopus关键词	meta-analysis; recycling; resource management; social behavior
来源期刊	Global Environmental Change
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/117845
作者单位	School of Geography, Environment and Earth Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington, PO Box 600, Wellington, New Zealand; University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Abrahamse W.,Steg L.. Social influence approaches to encourage resource conservation: A meta-analysis[J],2013,23(6).
APA	Abrahamse W.,&Steg L..(2013).Social influence approaches to encourage resource conservation: A meta-analysis.Global Environmental Change,23(6).
MLA	Abrahamse W.,et al."Social influence approaches to encourage resource conservation: A meta-analysis".Global Environmental Change 23.6(2013).