Purpose: This paper aims to examine how social and moral salience influences the activation/deactivation of consumer motives and how this in turn affects costly pro-environmental consumer behavior. Design/methodology/approach: In two experiments involving real purchases, it was tested whether...

It is argued that utility theory that underpins current cost-benefit analyses of daily travel needs to be complemented. An alternative theoretical framework is to this end proposed which applies subjective well-being (SWB) to travel behaviour analysis. It is posited in this theoretical framework...

Confirmatory factor analyses are used to examine the psychometric properties of the satisfaction with travel scale (STS), including tests of measurement invariance across urban areas and travel modes (car, public transport and slow modes). The data set consists of questionnaire responses from...

Recent research suggests that travellers’ anticipated trip utility may differ from the utility they actually experience when making the trip. This implies that it is important to investigate not only the factors underlying trip decision making, but also the actual experience of the trip. To...