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Increasing Community Recycling With Persuasive Communication And Public Commitment, Shawn M. Burn, Stuart Oskamp
Increasing Community Recycling With Persuasive Communication And Public Commitment, Shawn M. Burn, Stuart Oskamp
Psychology and Child Development
Persuasive communication and public commitment were used to encourage recycling in a citywide program. The persuasive communication was a combination of factors which have been found by laboratory researchers to produce attitude and/ or behavior change. The public commitment manipulation involved signing a statement supportive of recycling. Households which did not recycle during a 6- week baseline period were selected for experimental study. Trained Boy Scouts made an oral informational statement and then gave each of 201 experimental households one of three treatments (a written persuasive communication, public commitment, or both). A control group of 132 homes received no treatment. …