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Incentives
In this activity students consider what incentives motivate people to modify their behaviour in the context of studying how people can be persuaded to change their electricity consumption.
They study a research project being carried out at the University of Oxford before choosing their own research question and designing a study to investigate it.
Learning Outcomes
- Students can define extrinsic and intrinsic motivation and give examples
- Students can choose a suitable research question and design a study based on it.
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