Collective self and individual choice: The role of social comparisons in promoting public engagement with climate change

Engaging the Public with Climate Change: Behaviour Change and Communication

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 66-83

  Rabinovich, Anna ^a   Morton, Thomas A ^a   Duke, Christopher C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84925823912     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9781849775243     Document Type: Chapter

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