A two-step informational strategy for reducing littering behavior in a cinema

Environment and Behavior

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 752-762

  Hansmann, Ralf ^a   Scholz, Roland W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Behavior change; Communication; Intervention; Littering; Norms

Indexed keywords

PACKAGING WASTE;

EID: 0344586709     PISSN: 00139165     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0013916503254755     Document Type: Article

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