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Consumers intention to adopt residential solar panels in Central Norway
No full textSolsellepaneler 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 solsellepanel i Norge. Hensikten med denne oppgaven er å undersøke effekten av psykologiske og sosiodemografiske faktorer på intensjonen om å bli en pilotkunde for et solsellepanelprosjekt. Teorien om planlagt atferd (theory of planned beahviour; TPB) og en utvidet modell av teorien blir brukt som grunnlag. Dataen ble samlet inn ved hjelp av et spørreskjema der 697 deltakere svarte.
Resultatene av de statistiske analysene indikerer tre variabler som på en robust måte kan predikere intensjon om å bli en pilotkunde. Den første er opplevd atferdskontroll (percived behavioural control; PBC). Opplevd atferdskontroll viser at de som ikke forventer problemer med installasjon og drift av solcellepaneler har større sannsynlighet for å bli en pilotkunde. Dette viser hvor viktig det er å få høykost-miljøatferd til å fremstå som enkel. Den andre variabelen er åpenhet for nye innovasjoner (innovativeness). Selv om effekten er svak, indikerer resultatet at åpenhet for ny teknologi predikerer intensjon på en positiv måte. Den tredje signifikante prediktoren er kjønn. Det viser seg at menn har en høyere intensjon om å bli en av pilotkundene sammenlignet med kvinner. De statistiske analysene indikerer også marginale positive effekter av blant annet holdninger og subjektiv norm på intensjonen om å bli en pilotkunde. Basert på resultatene blir mulige strategier for å spre bruk av solcellepaneler og annen høykost-miljøteknologi diskutert
Consumers intention to adopt residential solar panels in Central Norway
Full text linkSolsellepaneler 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 solsellepanel i Norge. Hensikten med denne oppgaven er å undersøke effekten av psykologiske og sosiodemografiske faktorer på intensjonen om å bli en pilotkunde for et solsellepanelprosjekt. Teorien om planlagt atferd (theory of planned beahviour; TPB) og en utvidet modell av teorien blir brukt som grunnlag. Dataen ble samlet inn ved hjelp av et spørreskjema der 697 deltakere svarte.
Resultatene av de statistiske analysene indikerer tre variabler som på en robust måte kan predikere intensjon om å bli en pilotkunde. Den første er opplevd atferdskontroll (percived behavioural control; PBC). Opplevd atferdskontroll viser at de som ikke forventer problemer med installasjon og drift av solcellepaneler har større sannsynlighet for å bli en pilotkunde. Dette viser hvor viktig det er å få høykost-miljøatferd til å fremstå som enkel. Den andre variabelen er åpenhet for nye innovasjoner (innovativeness). Selv om effekten er svak, indikerer resultatet at åpenhet for ny teknologi predikerer intensjon på en positiv måte. Den tredje signifikante prediktoren er kjønn. Det viser seg at menn har en høyere intensjon om å bli en av pilotkundene sammenlignet med kvinner. De statistiske analysene indikerer også marginale positive effekter av blant annet holdninger og subjektiv norm på intensjonen om å bli en pilotkunde. Basert på resultatene blir mulige strategier for å spre bruk av solcellepaneler og annen høykost-miljøteknologi diskutert
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Norms, prices, and commitment: A comprehensive overview of field experiments in the energy domain and treatment effect moderators
Full text linkThis 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 effects reported in the extant literature, as well as the factors that may strengthen or dampen these effects are reviewed. We find that social norm and incentive-based interventions mostly achieve small reductions in energy consumption, and that the effects of commitment-based interventions are essentially zero for the most part. Incentive effects on energy efficiency investments are mostly non-existent, safe for a few exceptions. One gap that we identify is the almost complete absence of field experiments leveraging social norms or commitment to promote energy efficiency investments. We discuss a broad range of (mostly under-researched) plausible moderators of the interventions' effects. Crucially, a more careful attention to moderators in future research can highlight instances in which interventions can be effective, notwithstanding their modest or non-existent average treatment effects. Our review offers a starting point in this regard
Social desirability in environmental psychology research: Three meta-analyses
Full text linkThat 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 of correlations between social desirability scales and self-reports of environmentally relevant behaviors, intentions, and (broadly defined) attitudes, based on data from 29 previously published papers. The pooled correlations with social desirability are generally small, ranging from 0.06 to 0.11 (0.08–0.13 when correcting for measurement error attenuation). However, our results do not lead to the conclusion that social desirability can be completely disregarded by environmental psychologists as a potential confounder. For example, we found evidence of substantial heterogeneity across studies, so the effect of social desirability may be more pronounced in specific cases. Continued attention to social desirability bias is needed to fully understand its possible subtle effects.publishedVersionCopyright © 2020 Vesely and Klöckner. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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