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Lookup NU author(s): Dr Cristian Domarchi DomarchiORCiD, Dr Quoc Vuong, Professor Elisabetta Cherchi
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© 2024 The Author(s). Cognitive consistency theories offer a solid background to understand the effects of latent psychological constructs in decision-making. These theories model decision-making as the product of a dynamic and recursive process in which individual elements are evaluated toward a decision and this emerging decision returns to its individual elements. In this study, we use the Hot Coherence (HOTCO) cognitive consistency theory to analyse the choice between electric, hybrid-electric, and petrol vehicles. We apply the model to a sample of respondents from England households with one or more cars. The HOTCO model offers a more nuanced representation of the decision-making process – compared with traditional attitude-behaviour link theories – by incorporating non-linear and multidimensional interactions between its components. Our results suggest that positive attitudes and emotional appraisals for electric and hybrid-electric vehicles are shaped by similar motivators, and respondents perceive them as capable of satisfying the same set of needs. In addition, environmental awareness and pro-innovative orientation are the two motives that generate the greater differences in attitudinal evaluations of petrol vehicles, compared with alternative fuels.
Author(s): Domarchi C, Vuong QC, Cherchi E
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour
Year: 2024
Volume: 107
Pages: 997-1014
Print publication date: 01/11/2024
Online publication date: 01/11/2024
Acceptance date: 22/10/2024
Date deposited: 12/11/2024
ISSN (print): 1369-8478
ISSN (electronic): 1873-5517
Publisher: Elsevier Ltd
URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trf.2024.10.018
DOI: 10.1016/j.trf.2024.10.018
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