West Virginia University.
J Appl Behav Anal. 1977 Fall;10(3):425-35. doi: 10.1901/jaba.1977.10-425.
Monetary payments, energy information, and daily feedback on consumption were employed to reduce electricity use in four units of a university student housing complex. A combined multiple-baseline and withdrawal design permitted both within- and between-unit comparisons. Payments produced immediate and substantial reductions in consumption in all units, even when the magnitude of the payments was reduced considerably. Feedback also produced reductions, but information about ways to conserve and about the cost of using various appliances did not. It was also found that, in general, payments combined with either information or feedback produced no greater effect than payments alone.
采用货币支付、能源信息以及每日消费反馈的方式来减少一所大学学生宿舍区四栋楼的用电量。采用组合的多基线和撤销设计可以进行单元内和单元间的比较。支付手段使得所有单元的用电量立即大幅减少，即使支付的金额大大减少也是如此。反馈也产生了减少效果，但关于节约方式和各种电器使用成本的信息则没有。还发现，一般来说，支付手段结合信息或反馈产生的效果并不比单独使用支付手段更好。
