Signs that encourage internalized recycling: Clinical validation, weak messages and "creative elaboration"

Journal of Environmental Psychology

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 193-202

  Werner, Carol M ^a   White, Paul H ^a   Byerly, Sari ^a   Stoll, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

Creative elaboration; ELM; HSM; Persuasive signs

Indexed keywords

EID: 67349163721     PISSN: 02724944     EISSN: 15229610     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvp.2009.02.003     Document Type: Article

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