Informing behavioural policies with data from everyday life

Lades, Leonhard K.; Martin, L.A.; Delaney, Liam

doi:10.1017/bpp.2018.37

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“…We accounted for study quality in both methods by including categorical variables describing the design and clarity of the included studies. Together, these analyses join quantitative evidence on what interventions promote conservation practice adoption with qualitative evidence on how they do so (Lades et al., 2018).…”

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Assessing intervention effectiveness at promoting voluntary conservation practice adoption in agrienvironments

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Wainger

2023

Conservation Biology

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Although implementing conservation practices on private farms and forests can produce substantial environmental benefits, these practices are not being adopted widely enough to result in measurable improvements at regional scales. Researchers have investigated the production and program factors influencing producer choices to voluntarily adopt these practices. However, the findings of reviews are inconsistent, raising questions about review methods, including the omission of relevant variables. Further, applying lessons from past work to promote adoption is difficult because many reviews investigated dispositional or demographic variables that practitioners and policy makers cannot directly observe or influence. We conducted a new review of 146 empirical studies that tested the effects of different interventions (e.g., financial incentives, outreach events, and nudges) on increasing the likelihood of producers adopting conservation practices. We conducted a metaregression of quantitative studies from diverse disciplines that filtered studies by quality (i.e., use of randomization and clear analysis reporting). We synthesized these results with a thematic analysis of qualitative studies on producer perspectives about conservation practices. Financial incentives had the strongest evidence of increasing producers’ likelihood of adopting conservation practices (odds ratio 1.86, p < 0.05). However, this effect was only apparent after filtering by study quality, which also improved model fit and identified significant regional differences (odds ratio –1.69, p < 0.01). The thematic review of qualitative studies revealed that peer groups may be successful in reinforcing adoption behaviors due to homophily effects and that financial incentives not only offset implementation costs but also mitigated perceived risks of adoption. Given the problems we encountered in testing hypotheses about the magnitude of variability explained by intervention types and practice characteristics, we recommend additional experimental and longitudinal work that accounts for financial incentives and pairs qualitative and quantitative data to clarify relationships between program design and practice adoption rates.

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Assessing intervention effectiveness at promoting voluntary conservation practice adoption in agrienvironments

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2023

Conservation Biology

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“…The DRM is well established to minimise memory bias, particularly for factual information such as time spent in specific locations (Lucas et al, 2021). Lades et al (2022) provide a detailed discussion of the strengths of the DRM. For our purposes, we adapted it to generate an anonymous, online study to measure detailed behaviour relevant to the transmission of COVID-19.…”

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Behavioural evidence to inform the COVID-19 pandemic response: Ireland's Social Activity Measure (SAM)

Lunn,

Timmons,

Robertson

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Behav. Public Policy

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Humankind's main defence against the virus that cuases COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2), besides vaccine development, was co-ordinated behaviour change. In many countries, co-ordination was assisted by tracking surveys designed to measure self-reported behaviour and attitudes. This paper describes an alternative, complementary approach, which was undertaken in close collaboration with officials in the Department of the Taoiseach (Irish Prime Minister). We adapted the Day Reconstruction Method (DRM) to develop the ‘Social Activity Measure’ (SAM). The study was conducted fortnightly for 18 months, with findings delivered directly to the Department. This paper describes the method and shows how SAM generated a detailed picture of where and why transmission risk occurred. By using the DRM, we built aggregate measures from narrative accounts of how individuals spent their previous day. SAM recorded the amount, location and type of social activity, including the incidence of close contact and mask-wearing, as well as compliance with public health restrictions by shops and businesses. The method also permitted a detailed analysis of how public perceptions and comprehension are related to behaviour. The results informed government communications and strategies for lifting public health restrictions. The method could be applied to other future situations that might require co-ordinated public behaviour over an extended period.

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Paths that lead astray: Examining the situational predictors of intention-behaviour gaps in meat consumption

Laffan

Lades

Delaney

2023

Journal of Environmental Psychology

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Informing behavioural policies with data from everyday life

Cited by 4 publications

References 79 publications

Assessing intervention effectiveness at promoting voluntary conservation practice adoption in agrienvironments

Assessing intervention effectiveness at promoting voluntary conservation practice adoption in agrienvironments

Behavioural evidence to inform the COVID-19 pandemic response: Ireland's Social Activity Measure (SAM)

Paths that lead astray: Examining the situational predictors of intention-behaviour gaps in meat consumption

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