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    "pk": 49365,
    "title": "The intrinsic drive for knowing boosts pro-environmental choices",
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    "abstract": "The ongoing climate crisis demands massive changes in people's life style. Behavioral economics has highlighted the use of extrinsic incentives (e.g., money) as a powerful tool for changing behavior. However, external incentives come with significant costs, making them feasible primarily for wealthier countries. Here, following recent insights from the field of curiosity and information-seeking, we explore whether internal incentives such as the intrinsic drive for knowing can motivate people to act more pro-environmentally. By developing a novel decision-making task, we showed that the drive for knowing predicts pro-environmental choices. Moreover, participants chose eco-friendly options more when their values were unknown compared to when they were known. Results from this study hold the potential to inform the development of future behavioral interventions, although a replication of its findings is still ongoing.",
    "language": "eng",
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    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "Psychology; Behavioral Science; Decision making; Quantitative Behavior"
        }
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    "section": "Papers with Poster Presentation",
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    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3685p1gf",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Irene",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Cogliati Dezza",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "UniversitŽ Libre de Bruxelles",
            "department": ""
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    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2025-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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