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For better or for worse? Empirical evidence of moral licensing in a behavioral energy conservation campaign
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Metadata
- Authors
- Tiefenbeck, V., Staake, T., Roth, K., & Sachs, O.
- Venue
- Energy Policy
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2013-06
- Volume
- 57
- Pages
- 160-171
- ISSN
- 0301-4215 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2162886622
- Cited by
- 487
- References
- 9
- FWCI
- 93.98
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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