This study focused on social and cognitive psychological factors that drive personal norms consequent buying intentions towards green electric appliances. The differentiates itself from other similar studies by examining the mediating role of consumer moral developing nation perspective. Following a cross-sectional design, data were collected 360 consumers in shopping malls using purposive samp...

The main objective of this study is to present the relationship between knowledge energy concepts, lifestyle and personal norms with energy-saving behavior in elementary school teacher education students Banten Province, Indonesia. method opposed quantitative research correlational a sample 447 Muhammadiyah University Jakarta Elementary School Teacher Education Study Program, validation results...

Many patrons in nightlife settings around the world experience and engage behavior that some find distressing others a useful method of interacting with potential sexual partners. Some these behaviors nevertheless meet World Health Organizations’ definition violence. Recent research suggests social norms Australian might be encouraging to or tolerate violence when it occurs, even though violate...

Personal protective equipment (PPE) is the least desirable way to ensure workplace safety, and it is difficult to use consistently. Hard hats are different; they have cachet and are often worn even when they are not required. We investigated the history of this personal protective equipment to see if there were any lessons that could be applied to other forms of PPE. We learned that what makes ...

The effect of the personal values such as trust or a desire for privacy of users and developers of open source software (OSS) on the development and use of the software developed by OSS projects is a topic of growing interest in the Information Systems (IS) field. This topic has been investigated in proprietary IS development, but a limiting factor in many of these studies is a lack of theoreti...

AIMS This exploratory trial examines the feasibility of implementing a social norms marketing campaign to reduce student drinking in universities in Wales, and evaluating it using cluster randomised trial methodology. METHODS Fifty residence halls in 4 universities in Wales were randomly assigned to intervention or control arms. Web and paper surveys were distributed to students within these ...

Emotions can be triggered by various factors. According to the Appraisal Theories (De Rivera, 1977; Frijda, 1986; Ortony et al., 1988; JohnsonLaird and Oatley, 1989) emotions are elicited and differentiated on the basis of the cognitive evaluation of the personal significance of a situa-tion, object or event based on appraisal criteria (intrinsic characteristics of objects and events, sig-nific...