Unintended anchors: Building rating systems and energy performance goals for U.S. buildings

Energy Policy

Volumn 38, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 3557-3566

  Klotz, Leidy ^a   Mack, Daniel ^b   Klapthor, Brent ^a   Tunstall, Casey ^b   Harrison, Jennilee ^a  

^a AMRL   (United States)

^b CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anchoring; Buildings; Cognitive Bias

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE BIAS; COMMERCIAL BUILDING; ENERGY PERFORMANCE; ENERGY REDUCTION; ENERGY USE; IN-BUILDINGS; PER UNIT; RATING SYSTEM; STANDARD PRACTICES;

OFFICE BUILDINGS;

ANCHORS;

BUILDING; ENERGY MARKET; ENERGY PLANNING; ENERGY POLICY; ENERGY USE;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 77953688051     PISSN: 03014215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2010.02.033     Document Type: Article

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