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Article: Designing environmental campaigns by using agent-based simulations: strategies for changing environmental attitudes.
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ABSTRACT: Agent-based computer simulation was used to create artificial communities in which each individual was constructed according to the principles of the elaboration likelihood model of Petty and Cacioppo [1986. The elaboration likelihood model of persuasion. In: Berkowitz, L. (Ed.), Advances in Experimental Social Psychology. Academic Press, New York, NY, pp. 123-205]. Campaigning strategies and community characteristics were varied systematically to understand and test their impact on attitudes towards environmental protection. The results show that strong arguments influence a green (environmentally concerned) population with many contacts most effectively, while peripheral cues have the greatest impact on a non-green population with fewer contacts. Overall, deeper information scrutiny increases the impact of strong arguments but is especially important for convincing green populations. Campaigns involving person-to-person communication are superior to mass-media campaigns because they can be adapted to recipients' characteristics.Journal of Environmental Management 10/2008; 88(4):805-16. · 3.24 Impact Factor
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2008
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Eawag: Das Wasserforschungs-Institut des ETH-Bereichs
- Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (Eawag)
Dübendorf, ZH, Switzerland
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