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Nudges Can Both Raise and Lower Physical Activity Levels: The Effects of Role Models on Stair and Escalator Use – A Pilot Study Cover

Nudges Can Both Raise and Lower Physical Activity Levels: The Effects of Role Models on Stair and Escalator Use – A Pilot Study

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|Jul 2020

Figures & Tables

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Figure 1

Passenger’s path to the staircase.

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Figure 2

Setting at “S-Bahnhof Zoologischer Garten”, Berlin.

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Figure 3

Counts of participants by Intervention Type and Decision.

Table 1

Stair and Escalator Use by Intervention Type.

Intervention TypeDecision
StairsEscalatorTotal
Control (no model)
total count157388545 (31%)
share29%71%
Stair-Model
total count193389582 (33%)
share33%67%
Escalator-Model
total count168483651 (37%)
share26%74%
Total
total count51812601778 (100%)
share29%71%

[i] Pearson chi2(2) = 8.0921; Pr = 0.017.

Table 2

Binomial Logistic Regression of Stair Use on Model-Interventions.

VariablesStair Use (1) Escalator (0)
Model A
Stair-model vs control
Model B
Escalator-model vs control
Odds Ratio
(p-Value)
Odds Ratio
(p-Value)
Intervention Type
baseline: no model1      1    
Stair-model0.165      
(0.209)      
Escalator-model–0.117    
(0.394)    
Traffic volume0.00776*    –0.00336      
(0.075)      (0.489)    
Model–0.00812      –0.0306    
(0.92)      (0.704)    
Constant–1.269***–0.681**
(0.000)      (0.013)    
Observations1,127      1,196    

[i] *** p < 0.01, ** p < 0.05, * p < 0.1.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/paah.56 | Journal eISSN: 2515-2270
Language: English
Submitted on: May 12, 2020
Accepted on: Jun 6, 2020
Published on: Jul 8, 2020
Published by: Ubiquity Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 1 issue per year

© 2020 Mathias Krisam, Ruben Korenke, Mona Maier, Jakob Korenke, published by Ubiquity Press
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.