Author Question: In the study about how to encourage hotel guests to reuse their towels thereby promoting ... (Read 44 times)

kshipps · **on:** Jun 22, 2018

In the study about how to encourage hotel guests to reuse their towels thereby promoting conservation, which type of message was the most effective?

a. one that simply provided a general environmental focus
b. one that invited guests to partner with the hotel to protect the environment
c. one that invoked the norm of reciprocity by noting that the hotel was doing its part to protect the environment and inviting the guest to do his or her part
d. one that clearly portrayed environmental damage with photos of decimated landscape

Question 2

Suppose that you are a ninth grade teacher, and you are trying to get your students to conserve more water and energy in their daily lives. Which of the following approaches is likely to be least successful?

a. Educate them about the need for conservation.
b. Make use of prompts, or reminders, at times when they tend to be wasteful.
c. Have them make public commitments to their parents that they will be less wasteful.
d. Have them make public commitments to their peers that they will be less wasteful.