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Appendix G: Glossary
Pages 295-302

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... where messages are provided containing statistics, factors, narratives, but also possibly normative or descriptive content, including explicit persuasive framing and behavior change prompts with the intention of changing behavior. Appeals can be explicit (ask individuals directly to act)
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... "Reflective processing" refers to conscious processing of information where attitudes are formed in light of rational arguments, relevant experiences, and knowledge. Tactics for interventions that appeal to this type of processing include knowledge transfer designed to increase self-efficacy.
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... Effectiveness: Effectiveness is the extent to which an intervention produces the desired results when provided under the usual circumstances or real world environment. Engagement: A type of intervention that creates involvement or commitment by cueing individuals (e.g., via goal setting or commitments)
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... Intervention: An intervention is a combination of program elements or strategies designed to produce behavior changes among individuals or an entire population. Interventions that include multiple strategies are typically the most effective in producing desired and lasting change.
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... Economic incentives, by contrast, are explicitly intended to shape behavior by changing one's economic position or power in consequential ways. Opportunity (to prevent food waste)
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... These principles explain how individuals evaluate their own opinions and abilities by comparing themselves to others in order to reduce uncertainty in these domains, and learn how to define the self.  Social marketing: The adaptation of commercial marketing technologies to programs designed to influence the voluntary behavior of target audiences to improve their personal welfare and that of the society of which they are a part (Andreasen, 1994)
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... In behavioral science, strategies are combined into a specific intervention to produce behavior changes among individuals or an entire population. REFERENCES Andreasen, A.R.
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... 2019. Meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials testing behavioural interventions to promote household action on cli mate change.
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