Blar i Bergen Open Research Archive på forfatter "Doran, Rouven"
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Attitudes, efficacy beliefs, and willingness to pay for environmental protection when travelling
Doran, Rouven; Hanss, Daniel; Larsen, Svein (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015-04-09)Environmental sustainability may be seen as a collective challenge that can only be met if a sufficient number of individuals cooperate. Whether or not individual tourists are willing to contribute their share may thus ... -
Comparison between own and others’ travel motives: A research note
Doran, Rouven; Larsen, Svein; Wolff, Katharina (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016)This study examines the assumption that tendencies to dissociate oneself from other tourists relate to the desire to position own characteristics (using travel motives as an example) in a positive light. Results suggest ... -
Complexity and Simplification in Understanding Travel Preferences Among Tourists
Øgaard, Torvald; Doran, Rouven; Larsen, Svein; Wolff, Katharina (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)Travel preferences are complex phenomena, and thus cumbersome to deal with in full width in diagnostic and strategic planning processes. The aim of the present investigation was to explore to what extent individual preferences ... -
Different but similar: Social comparison of travel motives among tourists
Doran, Rouven; Larsen, Svein; Wolff, Katharina (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014-09-08)Although previous research suggests that people prefer to think of themselves as being authentic (or individualistic) travellers rather than stereotyped tourists, there have been few studies investigating the external ... -
Eco-friendly travelling: The relevance of perceived norms and social comparison
Doran, Rouven (Doctoral thesis, 2016-12-12)Tourism can be linked to negative environmental impacts, such as an extensive output of greenhouse gas emissions. But in spite of the increase in public awareness of (as well as positive attitudes towards) the need to ... -
Exposure to the IPCC special report on 1.5 °C global warming is linked to perceived threat and increased concern about climate change
Ogunbode, Charles Adedayo; Doran, Rouven; Böhm, Gisela (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)This article investigates the influence of exposure to the IPCC special report on 1.5 °C global warming on climate change attitudes. Among a nationally representative sample of the Norwegian public, we found that exposure ... -
Intentions to make sustainable tourism choices: do value orientations, time perspective, and efficacy beliefs explain individual differences?
Doran, Rouven; Hanss, Daniel; Larsen, Svein (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016-05-02)There is a growing literature addressing psychological variables that can be associated with choices of environmentally sustainable tourism alternatives. This paper contributes to this literature by focusing on individual ... -
Laypeople's affective images of energy transition pathways
Böhm, Gisela; Doran, Rouven; Pfister, Hans-Rudiger (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2018-10-10)This paper explores the public perception of energy transition pathways, that is, individual behaviors, political strategies, and technologies that aim to foster a shift toward a low-carbon and sustainable society. We ... -
Pathways to energy transition: A faceted taxonomy
Böhm, Gisela; Doran, Rouven; Rødeseike, Annika; Pfister, Hans-Rudiger (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)The article deals with the public perception of energy transition pathways, that is, of strategies towards sustainable ways of energy use. Implementing sustainable pathways poses a major challenge for organizations and ... -
Political Orientation Moderates the Relationship Between Climate Change Beliefs and Worry About Climate Change
Gregersen, Thea; Doran, Rouven; Böhm, Gisela; Tvinnereim, Endre; Poortinga, Wouter (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Public perceptions are well established as a key factor in support for climate change mitigation policies, and they tend to vary both within and between countries. Based on data from the European Social Survey Round 8 (N ... -
The relative importance of social and personal norms in explaining intentions to choose eco-friendly travel options
Doran, Rouven; Larsen, Svein (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015)Changes in current travel patterns are important in order to move towards a more sustainable future of tourism. This paper reports findings from a study (N = 762) investigating the relative importance of social and personal ... -
Sustainable consumption of groceries: the importance of believing that one can contribute to sustainable development
Hanss, Daniel; Böhm, Gisela; Doran, Rouven; Homburg, Andreas (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016-02-26)This study investigated relations between consumers’ sustainable development self-efficacy, attitudes, norms and intentions to purchase sustainable groceries such as ecological and fair trade foods. Demographic variables ... -
Using card sorting to explore the mental representation of energy transition pathways among laypeople
Doran, Rouven; Böhm, Gisela; Hanss, Daniel (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2018-12-04)Meeting international emission targets will require major changes in the energy system. This paper addresses the public perception of different pathways to energy transition, and their mental representation in particular. ... -
What makes tourist experiences interesting
Larsen, Svein; Wolff, Katharina; Doran, Rouven; Øgaard, Torvald (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-08-07)Traditional tourist role theory implies that tourists are either novelty seekers or familiarity seekers, while the interaction-hypothesis-of-inherent-interest predicts that interestingness is maximal when novel and familiar ...