Author Question: Freedman and Fraser (1966) asked homeowners to put a large, unattractive sign in their yards. They ... (Read 53 times)

ericka1 · **on:** Jun 22, 2018

Freedman and Fraser (1966) asked homeowners to put a large, unattractive sign in their yards. They were very successful in getting people to agree if

a. they just asked the homeowners to put up the large sign.
b. they asked 2 weeks after getting the homeowners to put a small sign in the window.
c. they asked homeowners to pick up litter in the community first.
d. they told homeowners to conserve energy.

Question 2

Based on the field study by Shultz and his colleagues (2007) in which several households in a neighborhood received weekly feedback about their level of energy consumption relative to their neighbors,

if you wanted to encourage people to use less electricity, what would you do?
a. Tell them the average level of energy consumption.
b. Teach them ways to conserve energy.
c. Give them smiley or sad faces depending on how well they conserved energy.
d. Reduce their bill for efforts at efficiency.