REDUCING RESIDENTIAL ELECTRICAL ENERGY USE: PAYMENTS, INFORMATION, AND FEEDBACK1
- 1 September 1977
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis
- Vol. 10 (3), 425-435
- https://doi.org/10.1901/jaba.1977.10-425
Abstract
Monetary payments, energy information, and daily feedback on consumption were employed to reduce electricity use in four units of a university student housing complex. A combined multiple-baseline and withdrawal design permitted both within- and between-unit comparisons. Payments produced immediate and substantial reductions in consumption in all units, even when the magnitude of the payments was reduced considerably. Feedback also produced reductions, but information about ways to conserve and about the cost of using various appliances did not. It was also found that, in general, payments combined with either information or feedback produced no greater effect than payments alone.Keywords
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