Blar i NTNU Open på forfatter "Vesely, Stepan"
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Can competing demands affect pro-environmental behaviour: a study of the impact of exposure to partly related sequential experiments
Amaris Castro, Gloria Estefany; Vesely, Stepan; Hess, Stephane; Klöckner, Christian Andreas Nikolaus (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)The study of human behaviour is central to the development of appropriate policies for sustainability. We argue that mathematical models of human choice behaviour may produce biased results if they fail to account for the ... -
Climate change action as a project of identity: Eight meta-analyses
Vesely, Stepan; Masson, Torsten; Chokrai, Parissa; Becker, Anna M.; Fritsche, Immo; Kløckner, Christian; Tiberio, Lorenza; Carrus, Giuseppe; Panno, Angelo (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Identity can improve our understanding of personal climate action, particularly when climate action becomes an expression of a person’s self. However, it is unclear which kind of self or identity is most relevant. Building ... -
Consumers intention to adopt residential solar panels in Central Norway
Lundheim, Sigurd Hilmo (Master thesis, 2019)Solsellepaneler har ikke hatt like stor gjennomslagskraft i Norge som annen høykostnads miljøteknologi, som for eksempel elbiler og hybridbiler. I de siste årene har det likevel vært en økende interesse for kjøp av ... -
Donations to renewable energy projects: The role of social norms and donor anonymity
Vesely, Stepan; Kløckner, Christian; Carrus, Giuseppe; Chokrai, Parissa; Fritsche, Immo; Masson, Torsten; Panno, Angelo; Tiberio, Lorenza; Udall, Alina Mia (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)This paper shows that interventions based on social norms and on increasing the visibility of people's decisions to others (“decision observability”) present promising pathways of generating public support for renewable ... -
From vague interest to strong intentions to install solar panels on private homes in the North – An analysis of psychological drivers
Lundheim, Sigurd Hilmo; Vesely, Stepan; Nayum, Alim; Kløckner, Christian (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Solar panels have not seen the same widespread adoption in the Nordic countries as in the rest of Europe. The aim of the paper is to investigate how house owners that have already expressed some interest in solar panels ... -
How anonymity and norms influence costly support for environmental causes
Vesely, Stepan; Kløckner, Christian (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)Social norms are a key driver of pro-environmental action, but their influence may vary by context. An important contextual factor is behavior observability. We employ a laboratory quasi-experiment studying donations to ... -
Is environmental behavior related to economic risk preferences? An exploratory case by case analysis
Vesely, Stepan; Klöckner, Christian Andreas Nikolaus (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Do risk preferences play a role when deciding whether to act pro-environmentally? Looking at 28 different behaviors case by case – including recycling, waste reduction, energy and water conservation, consumer behavior, and ... -
Norms, prices, and commitment: A comprehensive overview of field experiments in the energy domain and treatment effect moderators
Vesely, Stepan; Kløckner, Christian; Carrus, Giuseppe; Tiberio, Lorenza; Caffaro, Federica; Biresselioglu, Mehmet Efe; Kollmann, Andrea C.; Sinea, Anca C. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)This paper provides a comprehensive overview of field experiments utilizing social norms, commitment and price-based interventions to promote energy conservation, load shifting, and energy efficiency behaviors. Treatment ... -
Psychological Predictors of Energy Saving Behavior: A Meta-Analytic Approach
Carrus, Giuseppe; Tiberio, Lorenza; Mastandrea, Stefano; Chokrai, Parissa; Fritsche, Immo; Kløckner, Christian; Masson, Torsten; Vesely, Stepan; Panno, Angelo (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Understanding how psychological processes drive human energy choices is an urgent, and yet relatively under-investigated, need for contemporary society. A knowledge gap still persists on the links between psychological ... -
Social desirability in environmental psychology research: Three meta-analyses
Vesely, Stepan; Kløckner, Christian (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)That social desirability might be a confounder of people's survey responses regarding environmental actions has been discussed for a long time. To produce evidence for or against this assumption, we conducted meta-analyses ...