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A LONGITUDINAL STUDY OF INFORMATIONAL INTERVENTIONS TO SAVE ENERGY IN AN OFFICE BUILDING
Author(s) -
Staats Henk,
Leeuwen Esther,
Wit Arjaan
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
journal of applied behavior analysis
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.1
H-Index - 76
eISSN - 1938-3703
pISSN - 0021-8855
DOI - 10.1901/jaba.2000.33-101
Subject(s) - psychological intervention , intervention (counseling) , psychology , term (time) , contingency management , longitudinal study , medicine , psychiatry , physics , pathology , quantum mechanics
Informational interventions were employed to promote two behaviors relevant for efficient heating of individual offices in a large office building. In two successive winter seasons, interventions were applied during 4‐week periods. Short‐term effects were assessed weekly, and long‐term effects were assessed 1 year after each of the two intervention periods. Improvements were observed in each intervention period, with partial behavior maintenance 1 year later. The changes observed in the individual offices across conditions are suggestive of the program's capacity to correct relapses in earlier proenvironmental behavior.