Planning to Save the Planet.
Adolescents are an important population to target with energy-saving interventions: Not only are adolescents high consumers of energy, but they are also the adult consumers of the future. In the present study, an online energy-saving intervention was developed based on implementation intentions, a w...
| Publicado en: | Environment & Behavior Vol. 48; no. 8; pp. 1049 - 1073 |
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Sage Publications Inc.
Oct2016
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