The moderating role of individual differences in responses to benefit and temporal framing of messages promoting residential energy saving

Journal of Environmental Psychology

Volumn 44, Issue , 2015, Pages 95-108

  Xu, Xiaojing ^a   Arpan, Laura M ^b   Chen, Chien fei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Consideration of future consequences; Economic framing; Energy saving; Environmental concern; Environmental framing; Temporal framing

Indexed keywords

EID: 84944246403     PISSN: 02724944     EISSN: 15229610     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvp.2015.09.004     Document Type: Article

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