Green and greenback: The behavioral effects of environmental attitudes in low-cost and high-cost situations

Rationality and Society

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 441-472

  Diekmann, Andreas ^a   Preisendörfer, Peter ^b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Attitudes and behavior; Collective goods; Environmental behaviour; Low cost hypothesis; Rational choice; Social norms

Indexed keywords

EID: 0348230486     PISSN: 10434631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1043463103154002     Document Type: Review

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