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Behavioral and Social Aspects of Energy Consumption and Production Preliminary Report (1982) / Chapter Skim
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Introduction
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... There was great concern, for example, about the possibility that the hostilities that broke out on gasoline lines during the 1979 oil shortfall were only a pale image of what would happen in a serious oil emergency. It was anticipated that the noneconomic behavioral and social sciences might make important contributions to energy policy and analysis in at least four ways: First, they might help increase the accuracy of predictions of behavioral responses to economic incentives affecting energy use.
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... Despite the significance of these potential contributions, the noneconomic behavioral and social sciences have been concerned with energy issues for only a short time. As a result their contributions to knowledge about national energy issues can at present only occasionally take the form of propositions derived from the empirical study of energy issues.
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... For example, we might discuss information about energy and energy costs in terms of its properties as a signal of changing economic events or in terms of the ways consumers process incomplete or uncertain information. This sort of approach would make some insights from the noneconomic behavioral and social sciences easily accessible to policy makers and others not trained in these disciplines.
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... The first section describes possible areas of contribution from the social and behavioral sciences and the three topics chosen for further study: the behavior of energy consumers, energy activity at the local level, and preparation for and response to energy emergencies. The second section presents the committee's first-year work on one of these topics, the behavior of energy consumers.
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