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Warm glow is associated with low- but not high-cost sustainable behaviour

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  • Sander van der Linden

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Why do people contribute to important societal causes, such as sustainability? This study hypothesized that people are motivated to help because they anticipate a sense of warm glow from acting green. Although results reveal that ‘feel-good’ affect mostly drives low- rather than high-cost behaviour changes, harnessing people’s intrinsic motivation to help the environment may be an underleveraged mechanism for promoting sustainability.

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  • Sander van der Linden, 2018. "Warm glow is associated with low- but not high-cost sustainable behaviour," Nature Sustainability, Nature, vol. 1(1), pages 28-30, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:natsus:v:1:y:2018:i:1:d:10.1038_s41893-017-0001-0
    DOI: 10.1038/s41893-017-0001-0
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