Goal-framing theory and norm-guided environmental behavior

Encouraging Sustainable Behavior: Psychology and the Environment

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 37-54

  Lindenberg, Siegwart ^a,b   Steg, Linda ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

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EID: 84893354726     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203141182     Document Type: Chapter

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