A longitudinal study of informational interventions to save energy in an office building.
Informational interventions were employed to promote two behaviors relevant for efficient heating of individual offices in a large office building. In two successive winter seasons, interventions were applied during 4-week periods. Short-term effects were assessed weekly, and long-term effects were assessed 1 year after each of the two intervention periods. Improvements were observed in each intervention period, with partial behavior maintenance 1 year later. The changes observed in the individual offices across conditions are suggestive of the program's capacity to correct relapses in earlier proenvironmental behavior.
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Department of Social and Organizational Psychology, Leiden University, The Netherlands. staats@fsw.leidenuniv.nl
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D001521:Behavior Therapy; D003246:Conservation of Energy Resources; D006361:Heating; D006801:Humans; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D009042:Motivation; D010174:Pamphlets; D014495:Universities