A Towel Less: Social Norms Enhance Pro-Environmental Behavior in Hotels

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• Publication year

  2014

• Venue

  Journal of Social Psychology

• Publication date

  2014-02-11

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Business, Environmental Science, Psychology

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  DOI 10.1080/00224545.2013.855623PMID 24765814
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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