Guest speakers: consuming behavior and ING
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What beliefs about water sources rely on material superiority and what does this superiority mean?
What beliefs about water sources rely on originality of natural products and what does this mean?
So: as long as there is no human interference, nothing is on the hand
Name the two normative norms that influence well maintenance
- Personal norms: refer to internal standards of behavior and feelings of obligation to certain behavior
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What are the four motivations that people use to deny that they have to clean their freaking water well?
- Normative motives: social and personal norms
- Lack of knowledge: about how or where to test the surrounding water
- Lack of financial motivations: if present, this sometimes leads to people testing their well water (only receive subsidies when cleaning the well)
- Physical context: where people live can impact water testing behavior
Government external interference is considered as a potential risk to the drinking water quality of peoples water well. What two factors towards the government contributed to this?
- Lack of trust: well owners feel threatened by government intervention about the quality of the well water, and feel in control when this is not the case
- Lack of fairness: well owners felt treated unfairly, as others on public supplies do not pay for water testing directly. They feel they should get financial relief too
How do you define the belief that one can determine one's own internal states and behavior, influence one's environment, and/or bring about desired outcomes?
What is the perception of one's own ability to perform a given behavior?
What is the belief in one’s ability to influence events that affect one’s life and control over the way these events are experienced?
What leads to an underestimation of the risks and, as a result, a reluctance to follow current water testing guidelines and recommendations?
How are messages to arouse fear by emphasizing the potential danger and harm called?
How are messages that stress out many people called?
What is a hypothesized causal chain in which one variable affects a second variable that, in turn, affects a third variable called?
What is the idea that knowledge will automatically result in action?
Explain the theoretical framework for well owners
- Beliefs about water sources: well owners trust on their own ability to judge the water.
- Beliefs about contamination sources: well owners are aware of anthropogenic contamination, but not about geogenic contamination
- Beliefs about (social) context: if others don't do it, then I don't do it as well
- Beliefs about external interference: no interference of the government bitches
What effect may come from may come from learning that such actions are easy, feeling efficacious, feeling satisfied with having taken the initial steps, or developing an identity as someone who engages in such behaviors?
What effect may happen when people feel licensed to not act sustainably because they already did their bit or when they use financial savings realized in ways that are fossil fuel intensive? The latter is known as the “rebound effect”
What factors can affect a wide range of behaviors, making them an important target for promoting consistent sustainable energy behavior?
What incentives can be useful to motivate and enable people to engage in sustainable energy behavior by lowering the barriers to action?
What policies are rather effective to promote sustainable energy behavior because people are strongly motivated to save money?
How do you call it when one’s behavior is compared to the behavior of others?
How do you call having peers demonstrate sustainable behavior, can also be effective in more sustainability?
Explain short term incentive vs long term incentive
What is the development of self-control and patience?
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