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Lede, Ellin, Meleady, Rose 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4671-4960 and Seger, Charles R.
(2019)
Optimizing the influence of social norms interventions: Applying social identity insights to motivate residential water conservation.
Journal of Environmental Psychology, 62.
pp. 105-114.
ISSN 0272-4944
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Abstract
Social norms-based interventions offer a promising avenue to encourage proenvironmental behavior change. From a social identity perspective, it is argued that social norms communications will be maximally effective when they are tied to salient group memberships and supportive ingroup norms are communicated. Across four studies conducted in a water scarce region in England we demonstrate that a water conservation ingroup norms appeal encourages a shift in behavioral intentions and behavior. We provide initial evidence of the efficacy of the appeal against an information-only message (Study 1) and the mediating role of perceived ingroup norms (Study 2). Across two randomized control field trials, we find the appeal is more effective than a general social norms appeal (Study 3) and that sign-ups to a water-savings program significantly increase when the appeal is integrated into existing promotional materials (Study 4). We conclude by discussing how these insights can offer new perspectives on proenvironmental behavior change.
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Science Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Psychology |
| UEA Research Groups: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Social Cognition Research Group Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Centres > Centre for Behavioural and Experimental Social Sciences Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Cognition, Action and Perception |
| Depositing User: | LivePure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 26 Feb 2019 14:30 |
| Last Modified: | 20 Apr 2023 23:59 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/70012 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.jenvp.2019.02.011 |
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