Understanding the attitude-action gap: functional integration of environmental aspects in car purchase intentions
This study aims at understanding how a general positive attitude toward the environment results in a limited purchase of environmentally friendlier cars, often referred to as the attitude-action gap. In a first experiment 27 volunteers performed a judgment task on car purchase intention. Participants were asked to evaluate the probability of buying cars varying in purchase price, environmental performance, operating cost and vehicle quality. A second experiment required 47 participants [...]
Differential Effects of Nonreinforcement and Punishment in Humans
In an associative learning preparation, the participants were given partial reinforcement [...]
Judgment frequency effects in generative and preventive causal learning
The frequency of judgment effect is a special case of Response [...]
Retardation and summation tests after extinction: The role of familiarity and generalization decrement
In four conditioned taste aversion experiments with rats as subjects, [...]
Lightness and hue perception: The Bezold-Brucke effect and colour basic categories
Using surface colours as stimuli, the present research was aimed [...]
