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Redwolflake15 · **on:** Jun 22, 2018

Recall that researchers conducted a field experiment in Fairfax County, Virginia, where recycling efforts were instituted. These researchers found that positive attitudes best predicted recycling when residents

a. had to find their own containers for recycling.
b. had first agreed to recycle newspapers.
c. were provided with free recycling containers.
d. were provided with financial incentives for recycling.

Question 2

All of the following social psychological tips and tricks have been shown to improve people's environmentally damaging behaviors EXCEPT

a. decreasing people's cognitive dissonance over environmentally damaging behavior.
b. making people's resource use public.
c. making it easier for people to monitor their own resource use.
d. making it more convenient to act in an environmentally appropriate manner.