Publications in Peer-Reviewed Academic Journals
Publications in Peer-Reviewed Academic Journals
Co-Authors: Katharina Gangl & Paul van Lange
Abstract:
The present research addresses tools that could help reduce littering in society. Four interventions were tested which, based on different processes, should reduce littering: monetary information, the depicted injunctive norm, watching eyes and a nature picture. To test these interventions, a randomized controlled trial (RCT) involving 440 community building's waste disposal areas (N = 71,155) was conducted in Vienna. Littering was assessed before the intervention, 24–48 h after, and again seven weeks after the intervention. Results show that the financial intervention (monetary information) hardly had any effect on littering whereas the norm-based intervention (depicted injunctive norm) led to more littering compared to the control and in particular, the nature picture. In contrast, the reputation-based intervention (watching eyes) and ecology-based intervention (nature picture) reduced littering over time by 4.7%. Thus, interventions based on implicit and soft appeals to reputation and ecology are more effective in fostering clean environments than classical interventions applying explicit information on finances and norms.
Citation: Gangl, K., Walter, A., & Van Lange, P. A. M. (2022). Implicit reminders of reputation and nature reduce littering more than explicit information on injunctive norms and monetary costs. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 84, 101914.
➡️ Paper
Co-Authors: Katharina Gangl, Marcel Seifert, Kira Abstiens, Florian Spitzer, Erich Kirchler, Sophie Karmasin & Christian Kimmich
Abstract:
We identify stakeholders in the climate transition process, define necessary behavioral changes, and specify barriers that inhibit or promote the transition towards increased public transport use and renewable energy expansion. Overall, 89 experts in sustainability transition were asked to assess Austrian stakeholders´ power and interest in the sustainable transition of mobility and renewable energy supply, and to propose required target behaviors of identified stakeholders. Additionally, the experts and a representative sample of 1,000 citizens ranked key barriers to the transition. The results indicate that the Ministry of Finance, the EU and local governments are crucial, especially for implementing an ecological financial reform and stricter regulations. Conversely, lobbying and a lack of political will and public awareness of the climate crisis are barriers to the transition. We discuss coalition-building among pro-transition stakeholders and behaviorally informed climate communication as critical future research areas for addressing the behavioral dimension of the sustainability transition.
Working Paper (submitted)
Co-Authors: Klara Kinnl and Jakob Moeller
Abstract:
Teamwork is prevalent in many forms of production, but individual contributions to team output are often ambiguous. We use a large-scale online experiment with an interactive team task to investigate gender differences in claiming credit for contributions to teamwork with misaligned incentives: Team members have an incentive to exaggerate their contribution but this harms the other team member. In this setting, we find that men claim to have contributed more than equally contributing women. Using two further between-subject treatments, we experimentally test and rule out gender differences in social preferences and in overconfidence as mechanisms for the observed gender claim-gap. Instead, we provide exploratory evidence that men and women prioritize different factors when deciding how much to claim. Further, we only find a gender gap among high-contributors, and we show that the gap is particularly pronounced for large claims, which has potentially important consequences for gender equity in labour market outcomes.
Working Paper (R & R in Experimental Economics)
Co-Authors: Lukas Maier and Marc Schabka
Co-Authors: Florian Spitzer, Kira Abstiens
Policy Brief Research Report [in German]
Co-Authors: Katharina Gangl, Florian Spitzer
Research Report [in German]
Co-Authors: Kerstin Grosch, Hermann Kuschej
Research Report [in German]
Co-Authors: Kerstin Grosch
Research Report [in German]
Co-Authors: Katharina Gangl, Kerstin Grosch, Florian Spitzer,
Policy Brief Research Report [in German]
Co-Authors: Katharina Gangl, Axel Sonntag, Martin G. Kocher
Research Report [in German]