Behaviour change: insights for environmental policy making from social psychology and behavioural economics

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Behaviour change: insights for environmental policy making from social psychology and behavioural economics

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Victoria University of Wellington

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Policy Quarterly

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This paper surveys research on behaviour change and identifies ways that social psychology and behavioural economics can assist with environmental policy making. By understanding why and how people make decisions – and how decisions are affected by framing, habits, cognitive biases, and risk perception and interpretation – we can design policies that are more effective, less costly and more acceptable to the public.

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Article

Date created

2009-11-01

Creator

Cornforth, Alana

URL

https://doi.org/10.26686/pq.v5i4.4307

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