Water Conservation and Culture of Indifference among College Students: The Nexus of Descriptive Norms

Onyenankeya, Kevin; Caldwell, Marc; Okoh, Anthony I.

doi:10.1080/09709274.2015.11906926

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“…Future research needs to replicate these findings with improved external validity. Although it is unlikely that any choice architect thinks that people would be better off on the longrun if they would choose blue over green in a computer task, it is an operationalization of a situation in which the decision maker is only marginally interested in the outcome of the decision, which is the case, for example, in water conservation behavior (Onyenankeya et al, 2015). The current studies both used a social proof nudge, and since the preference framework is derived from a wide range of nudges types, future research should test the effectiveness also with other types of nudges, specifically in the absence of clear preferences.…”

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When in Doubt, Follow the Crowd? Responsiveness to Social Proof Nudges in the Absence of Clear Preferences

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Nudges have gained popularity as a behavioral change tool that aims to facilitate the selection of the sensible choice option by altering the way choice options are presented. Although nudges are designed to facilitate these choices without interfering with people's prior preferences, both the relation between individuals' prior preferences and nudge effectiveness, as well as the notion that nudges 'facilitate' decision-making have received little empirical scrutiny. Two studies examine the hypothesis that a social proof nudge is particularly effective when people have no clear prior preference, either because people are indifferent (in a color-categorization task; Study 1, N = 255) or because people experience a choice conflict (making shopping decisions about meat products; Study 2, N = 97). Both studies employed a social proof nudge to steer participants' choices. The potential facilitating effect of the nudge was tested using a mouse-tracker paradigm that implicitly assessed experienced uncertainty during decision-making. Results showed that the nudge was effective in steering participants' decisions; the facilitation effect (i.e., reduced uncertainty regarding the decision) was only observed for conflicting preferences, but not under indifference. A better understanding of when and how nudges can influence individuals' behavior may help in deciding whether nudges are an appropriate policy tool for changing particular undesirable behavior.

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Section: Limitations and Future Studiesmentioning

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When in Doubt, Follow the Crowd? Responsiveness to Social Proof Nudges in the Absence of Clear Preferences

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“…Informational social influence has been linked to individuals' need to identify effective behaviour (Cialdini et al, 1990) in multiple areas, including water conservation (Onyenankeya et al, 2015;Richetin et al, 2016), transgression tolerance (Wang et al, 2015), shopping behaviour (Demarque et al, 2015), muscular endurance (Priebe and Spink, 2014) and speeding/dangerous driving (Forward, 2009). No study to date has systematically investigated the independent effect of informational social influence on disaster preparedness, particularly terrorist-related preparedness actions:…”

Section: Social Influence Theorymentioning

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Social influence and cognitive-motivational effects on terrorism preparedness: A hurdle model

Wirtz

Rohrbeck

2017

Health Education Journal

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Objectives: The identification of factors which influence peoples’ preparation for health safety risks posed by natural and man-made disasters is a central concern in health education. Prior studies have generally approached this issue from either a cognitive or a social influence perspective, and have failed to recognise the increased importance of terrorism-related concerns in motivating health safety preparedness behaviour. The purpose of this study was to develop a unified social cognitive framework for understanding peoples’ preparations for health safety risks, focusing on terrorism-related cognitive and social influences. Design/Method/Approach: Participants in the National Survey of Disaster Experiences and Preparedness reported preparedness actions they had taken since 2001, their appraisals of terrorism-related threat and coping, and whether they knew others who had taken preparedness actions because of terrorism. Using a logistic binomial hurdle statistical model, number of actions taken was regressed on terrorism-related vulnerability, severity, response efficacy, self-efficacy, and informational social influence. Simultaneous models both of taking any action and of the number of actions taken were tested. Findings: After controlling for demographic variables, both taking any action and the number of preparedness actions taken were positively related to terrorism-related informational social influence, response efficacy, and self-efficacy; effects of terrorism-related vulnerability and severity appraisals were much smaller. Compared to cognitive factors, terrorism-related informational social influence had a substantially larger effect on taking any action, and a moderately larger effect on the number of actions taken. Conclusion: Terrorist-related informational norms were more salient than cognitive factors in influencing peoples’ preparation for health safety risks. Participants who knew someone who had taken one or more emergency preparedness actions because of terrorism were significantly more likely to take any preparedness action, and to take more preparedness actions, themselves. These findings are consequential in developing future educational initiatives.

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“…Clayton and Opotow [18] proposed that the social aspect of identity, i.e., experiences with other people, help to shape an individual's perceived reciprocal relationship with nature. Some social identity scholars [19][20][21][22][23][24] have suggested that the individual's current personal and/or social goals are also a reflection of the psychological significance of group membership, thereby providing a better understanding of the macro-(collective identity or personal identification with the group), meso-(attends to inter-and intragroup relations and their influence on group identity), and micro-(cognitive and motivational processes of authentic alignment with one's 'real' self) level processes of individual participation in pro-environmental behavior. In addition to attitudes and past behavioral patterns, social identity can be an important predictor of pro-environmental behavior because people act in ways to verify the meanings of their social identities.…”

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Encouraging Environmental Commitment to Sustainability: An Empirical Study of Environmental Connectedness Theory to Undergraduate Students

Lin

Kao

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Sustainability

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Environmental commitment to sustainability is one of the most critical issues in the “emerging contaminants”, few studies have examined the role of commitment to pro-environmental behavior and environmental concerns. This study aimed to explore the relationship between environmental commitment and three forms of emotional association: place attachment and social identity, connectedness and concerned about nature. Using 1288 respondents and a structural equation modeling approach, results show that connection to nature enhanced social identity, place attachment, and environmental concern, which in turn increased environmental commitment to sustainability. Place attachment was not related to environmental commitment to sustainability. Further analysis suggested that the theoretical model relationship between connection to nature and environmental commitment to sustainability was mediated by social identity and environmental concern. The findings of this research can offer guidelines for policy makers and green educators who evaluate an environmental commitment so as to provide proper beliefs association with nature and promote social identity and place attachment by emerging contaminants in educational activities. This demonstrates the importance of using a series of robustness of social identity and place attachment instruments and more environmental concern to promote environmental commitment to sustainability. Interpretation of the findings reveals the potential role that environmental commitment to sustainability can play as a hub and catalyst for major emerging contaminants change by fostering recognition of environmental commitment as a way of change and combine schools and government sectors to connect the micro- and macro-levels.

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Water Conservation and Culture of Indifference among College Students: The Nexus of Descriptive Norms

Cited by 13 publications

References 4 publications

When in Doubt, Follow the Crowd? Responsiveness to Social Proof Nudges in the Absence of Clear Preferences

When in Doubt, Follow the Crowd? Responsiveness to Social Proof Nudges in the Absence of Clear Preferences

Social influence and cognitive-motivational effects on terrorism preparedness: A hurdle model

Encouraging Environmental Commitment to Sustainability: An Empirical Study of Environmental Connectedness Theory to Undergraduate Students

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