@article{ref1,
title="Environmental, altruistic, or monetary benefits? A longitudinal online experiment on how framed behavioral consequences affect self-reported eco-driving of German vehicle owners",
journal="Transportation research part F: traffic psychology and behaviour",
year="2023",
author="Kramer, Jule and Petzoldt, Tibor",
volume="93",
number="",
pages="204-221",
abstract="Framing interventions that emphasize behavioral consequences are currently gaining prominence for promoting pro-environmental behaviors like eco-driving. Eco-driving encompasses those driving behaviors that positively affect the vehicle's fuel or energy consumption. To investigate how eco-driving tips with highlighted behavioral consequences promote eco-driving motivations and behaviors in everyday life, we conducted a longitudinal online experiment. For this, vehicle owners that are registered in a participants panel of a German vehicle manufacturer (N = 402) were recruited via e-mail invitation. They filled out two online surveys over the course of one month (NT1 = 281; NT2 = 228). As part of the first survey, participants were randomly assigned to a framing condition in which either CO2 (environmental framing), pollutant (altruistic framing), or monetary savings (monetary framing) of eco-driving were highlighted, or the control group. We examined whether the framed tips increased short-term eco-driving motivation and intention as well as medium-term eco-driving behavior change. As expected, participants rated the savings of environmental and altruistic framing (i.e., CO2/ pollutant savings) as worthier than the monetary savings. However, individuals who were exposed to framed eco-driving information independent of framing content reported an increase of eco-driving behavior, compared to the control group. Therefore, researchers and practitioners should find ways how to communicate framed eco-driving information to drivers.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1369-8478",
doi="10.1016/j.trf.2023.01.006",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.trf.2023.01.006"
}