PSYA02H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13,3: Leon Festinger, Murder Of Kitty Genovese, Candid Camera
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Economic focuses on policy changes focuses on financial incentives and penalties through taxes and pricing. Changing people"s behaviour four most common approaches taken to attempt to change the public"s behaviour: Technological focuses on making the desired behaviour as easy as possible through changing the technology and structure that influence the person. E. g. people will be less likely to throw their litter on the ground if there are easily accessible garbage cans nearby. Each behaviour by itself is insufficient to change people"s behaviour on climate change crisis those changes can only happen if the public at large supports this idea that"s why raising awareness is important. The assumption behind the raising awareness approach is that people will generally do the right thing, provided they have the right information. In turn, this is based on the assumption that information drives attitudes, and attitudes drive behaviour to change behaviour you have to change beliefs!
