Open Collections

Wu, David W.-L.; DiGiacomo, Alessandra; Peter, Lenkic J.; Vanessa, Wong K.; Kingstone, Alan; Lenkic, Peter J.; Wong, Vanessa K.

<b>Abstract</b><br/>Previous observational work revealed that transient populations in a sustainable building disposed of waste more accurately when compared to patrons in a non-sustainable building. The current study uses an experimental design to replicate this observed effect and to investigate whether or not the built environment influences motivational factors to impact behavior. We find support that a building designed and built to communicate an atmosphere of sustainability can influence waste disposal behavior. Participants in the sustainable building used the garbage receptacle significantly less and compensated by tending to select the containers and organics receptacle more, which actually resulted in more errors overall. Our findings suggest that building atmospherics can motivate people to recycle more. However, atmospherics alone do not appear to be sufficient to elicit the desired performance outcome.; <b>Usage notes</b><br /><div class="o-metadata__file-usage-entry"><h4 class="o-heading__level3-file-title">PLoS One Spreadsheet Data</h4><div class="o-metadata__file-description">Tab 1 displays the bin contents (where each item from each participant ended up). This data was used for the "Accuracy" and "Bin Contents" analyses. Tab 2 displays the coding results of the two coders from the current experiment. This data was used for the "Receptacles used" and "Time spent at receptacles" analyses. Tab 3 displays the coding results of the two coders from the observational data in Wu et al. (2013). This data was used for the "Time spent at receptacles" analyses.</div><div class="o-metadata__file-name"></div></div>

Dataset

2020-06-24

This dataset is made available under a Creative Commons CC0 license with the following additional/modified terms and conditions: CC0 Waiver

https://doi.org/10.5683/SP2/PYTCQZ

https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/