Encouraging electricity savings in a university residential hall through a combination of feedback, visual prompts, and incentives

MJ Bekker, TD Cumming, NKP Osborne… - Journal of applied …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
This experiment investigated the combined use of visual prompts, daily feedback, and
rewards to reduce electricity consumption in a university residential hall. After a 17‐day …

The mural as graffiti deterrence

PJ Craw, LS Leland Jr, MG Bussell… - Environment and …, 2006 - journals.sagepub.com
This study investigated whether the use of a colorful mural as a passive thematic prompt
could significantly reduce new graffiti attacks in an area prone to graffiti. A control design …

Reducing traffic speed within roadwork sites using obtrusive perceptual countermeasures

JA Allpress, LS Leland Jr - Accident Analysis & Prevention, 2010 - Elsevier
Excessive speed is currently one of the primary contributory factors in traffic accidents within
roadwork sites around the world. The present study evaluated two novel interventions …

Farmers, streams, information, and money: does informing farmers about riparian management have any effect?

HM Rhodes, LS LELAND, JR, BE Niven - Environmental Management, 2002 - Springer
We assessed relationships between the extent to which farmers reported exposure to
relevant information and their attitudes towards, knowledge about, and degree of adoption of …

Obesity and intellectual disability in New Zealand

KV Stedman, LS Leland Jr - Journal of Intellectual and …, 2010 - Taylor & Francis
Background The international literature suggests that obesity is likely to be more
pronounced in the population of people with intellectual disability (ID). However, there are …

Improving cafeteria patrons' waste disposal

HB Craig, LS Leland Jr - Journal of Organizational Behavior …, 1983 - Taylor & Francis
This study took place in a University student cafeteria where financial restrictions meant
customers were expected to clear their own tables. Initial low rates of appropriate waste …

Reducing passive smoking by promoting self segregation of smokers using signs and thematic prompts

JL Fanslow, LS Leland Jr, T Craig, H Hahn… - Journal of …, 1988 - Taylor & Francis
Recent research has demonstrated that passive smoking presents a long-term health
hazard for nonsmokers and it is often a source of immediate discomfort for them. As a result …

Increasing donations to supermarket food‐bank bins using proximal prompts

SJ Farrimond, LS Leland Jr - Journal of Applied Behavior …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
There has been little research into interventions to increase participation in donating items to
food‐bank bins. In New Zealand, there has been an increased demand from food banks …

The properties of one: Facial memory and the isolation effect

KM Main, LS Leland Jr, GC Bartlett - The Journal of general …, 1998 - Taylor & Francis
In an experiment testing the extension of the von Restorff/isolation effect to feature
recognition, observers viewed a study set of 20 faces with 0, 1, 2, or 4 distinctive stimuli on …

The properties of one: Single distinctive stimuli and their effects

RA Webster, LS Leland Jr… - The Journal of General …, 1997 - Taylor & Francis
In the presence of 1 simple, distinctive stimulus, memory of its context (a face or page of text)
is better than with 0, 2, or more such stimuli. According to the von Restorff (Wallace, 1965) or …