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ArticleFrontiers in psychology2024

The physical environment matters: room effects on online purchase decisions.

Ann Eklund, Anna Edenbrandt, Johan Rahm, Maria Johansson

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Article in Frontiers in psychology, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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4 authors.

Ann EklundEnvironmental Psychology, Department of Architecture and Built Environment, Lund University, Lund, Sweden.
Anna EdenbrandtDepartment of Economics, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden.
Johan RahmEnvironmental Psychology, Department of Architecture and Built Environment, Lund University, Lund, Sweden.
Maria JohanssonEnvironmental Psychology, Department of Architecture and Built Environment, Lund University, Lund, Sweden.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Introduction: People as individual consumers are regularly targeted in sustainability campaigns or communications with the hope of enhancing sustainable behavior at an individual level, with subsequent sustainability transformation at a larger societal scale. However, psychological motivation is complex and campaigns need to be based on an understanding for what individual, and contextual, factors support or hinder sustainable behavioral choices. Methods: In a discrete choice experiment, participants made hypothetical online purchases in each of three rooms designed to evoke associations to Results: Preferences for the normative attribute of t-shirts increased in the normative room compared to the room with gain associations. No effect of the rooms with hedonic or gain priming was observed on the choice. Discussion: The study supports the hypothesis that the physical room can enhance goal frame activation and behavioral choice but concludes that such priming effect is sensitive to specificity of the prime.

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choice experimentgoal framing theoryonline behaviorprimingsustainable consumption

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PMID38957886
PMCPMC11217526

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