The impact of attitudes and behavioral costs on environmental behavior: A natural experiment on household waste recycling

Social Science Research

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 917-930

  Best, Henning ^a   Kneip, Thorsten ^b  

^a GESIS LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR THE SOCIAL SCIENCES   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANNHEIM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dual process; Environmental behavior; Environmental concern; Low cost hypothesis; Model of frame selection; Rational choice

Indexed keywords

EID: 79953217986     PISSN: 0049089X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2010.12.001     Document Type: Article

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