Peer influence on household energy behaviours

Differences in firewood users’ and LPG users’ perceived relationships between cooking fuels and women’s multidimensional well-being in rural India

“…These lessons point to the possible value in intervention-related work of enabling peer learning. Wolske, et al 40 describe two types of communication channels relating to 'peer effects': active, which trigger deliberative processing, and passive, which enable intuitive processing. Peer learning between users and non-users of new fuels could open both: active channels, through discussion with fellow women, and passive channels, by observing their cooking practices.…”

Leveraging Social Science to Generate Lasting Engagement with Climate Change Solutions

“…Systematic reviews and meta-analyses of the behavioral science literature have repeatedly shown that social norms are among the most powerful interventions for encouraging pro-environmental behaviors. 8,12,[104][105][106][107][108] Although interventions that use social norms are generally effective, treatment effects are heterogeneous, and therefore it is important to consider important details, such as the type of norm, who is communicating it, how they are communicating it, and in what context.…”

“Taking action for the Reef?”–Australians do not connect Reef conservation with individual climate‐related actions

“…Diverse factors influence adoption of climate-related actions. These include (i) psychological factors, e.g., personal values and identity, threat awareness, sense of responsibility, the perceived behavior of others (social norms), and perceptions about the action; (ii) contextual factors that influence the opportunity to perform an action, e.g., availability of solar technologies, incentives; (iii) personal capacity to perform the action, including access to time and resources; and (iv) habits (Bouman et al, 2020;Klockner, 2013;Stern, 2000;Vainio, Pulkka, Paloniemi, Varho, & Tapio, 2020;van Valkengoed & Steg, 2019;Wolske, Gillingham, & Schultz, 2020). A distal but necessary precursor for taking action is knowing what actions can be performed to achieve a goal, sometimes referred to as "procedural knowledge" (Kaiser & Fuhrer, 2003).…”