Sticker in the box! Object-person distance and descriptive norms as means to reduce waste

Ecopsychology

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 146-148

  Reese, Gerhard ^a   Loeschinger, Daniel C ^b   Hamann, Karen ^b   Neubert, Sebastian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LUXEMBOURG   (Luxembourg)

^b FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

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EID: 84881511137     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19429347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/eco.2012.0075     Document Type: Article

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