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. 2000 Spring;33(1):101–104. doi: 10.1901/jaba.2000.33-101

A longitudinal study of informational interventions to save energy in an office building.

H Staats 1, E van Leeuwen 1, A Wit 1
PMCID: PMC1284229  PMID: 10738959

Abstract

Informational interventions were employed to promote two behaviors relevant for efficient heating of individual offices in a large office building. In two successive winter seasons, interventions were applied during 4-week periods. Short-term effects were assessed weekly, and long-term effects were assessed 1 year after each of the two intervention periods. Improvements were observed in each intervention period, with partial behavior maintenance 1 year later. The changes observed in the individual offices across conditions are suggestive of the program's capacity to correct relapses in earlier proenvironmental behavior.

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