The Significance of Hedonic Values for Environmentally Relevant Attitudes, Preferences, and Actions

Environment and Behavior

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 163-192

  Steg, Linda ^a   Perlaviciute, Goda ^a   van der Werff, Ellen ^a   Lurvink, Judith ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

attitudes; environmental behaviour; hedonic values; preferences; values

Indexed keywords

HEDONIC ANALYSIS; VALUATION;

EID: 84891596683     PISSN: 00139165     EISSN: 1552390X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0013916512454730     Document Type: Article

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