Blar i UiS Brage 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 (Journal article, 2015)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 ... -
Can social comparison feedback affect indicators of eco-friendly travel choices? Insights from two online experiments
Doran, Rouven; Hanss, Daniel; Øgaard, Torvald (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017-01)Two online experiments explored the effects of social comparison feedback on indicators of eco-friendly travel choices. It was tested whether the chosen indicators are sensitive to the information conveyed, and if this ... -
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 (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019-10)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 (Journal article, 2014)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 ... -
Intentions to make sustainable tourism choices: do value orientations, time perspective, and efficacy beliefs explain individual differences?
Doran, Rouven; Hanss, Daniel; Larsen, Svein (Journal article, 2016)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 ... -
The relative importance of social and personal norms in explaining intentions to choose eco-friendly travel options
Doran, Rouven; Larsen, Svein (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015-03)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 ... -
What makes tourist experiences interesting
Larsen, Svein; Wolff, Katharina; Doran, Rouven; Øgaard, Torvald (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019-08)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 ...