Interested, indifferent or active information avoider of climate labels: Cognitive dissonance and ascription of responsibility as motivating factors
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Keywords
Climate label; information avoidance; cognitive dissonance; carbon emission reduction; consumer behavior; strategic avoidance;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D12 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - Consumer Economics: Empirical Analysis
- D83 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Search; Learning; Information and Knowledge; Communication; Belief; Unawareness
- Q18 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Agriculture - - - Agricultural Policy; Food Policy; Animal Welfare Policy
- Q54 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Climate; Natural Disasters and their Management; Global Warming
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-AGR-2020-03-23 (Agricultural Economics)
- NEP-CBE-2020-03-23 (Cognitive and Behavioural Economics)
- NEP-ENE-2020-03-23 (Energy Economics)
- NEP-ENV-2020-03-23 (Environmental Economics)
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