One model to predict them all: Predicting energy behaviours with the norm activation model

Energy Research and Social Science

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages 8-14

  Van Der Werff, Ellen ^a   Steg, Linda ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Compatibility principle; Energy behaviour; Norm activation model

Indexed keywords

EID: 84924034513     PISSN: 22146296     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2014.11.002     Document Type: Article

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