@article {BF-4377,
	title = {Testing the Effectiveness of Task Difficulty, Behaviour Interpretation, and Social Comparison Interventions on Bushfire Preparedness {\textendash} An Experimental Field Study},
	year = {2014},
	abstract = {Researchers at the University of Western Australia explored whether three different
interventions had an effect on preparedness intentions at the start of the bushfire
season and actual preparedness towards the end of the bushfire season for both
property preparedness and psychological planning. These manipulations included A.
asking residents of bushfire prone areas to focus on completing easy vs. difficult
preparatory tasks first, B. influencing residents{\textquoteright} perceptions of how much they have
done to prepare to date compared to others in Australia, and C. asking residents to
interpret their level of bushfire preparedness to date in terms of commitment or
progress towards the goal of being prepared. Results suggest that making residents
focus on the three easiest tasks first leads to greater intentions to complete
uncompleted planning tasks than focusing on the three most difficult tasks first, but it
had no influence on actual preparedness by the end of the season. Results also
showed that residents who thought about how much progress they had made
towards the goal of being prepared showed lower intentions to engage in more tasks
that prepare their properties than those who thought about how committed they were
towards the goal of being prepared. However, thinking about their progress towards
the goal of being prepared led residents to complete more psychological planning
tasks than thinking about how committed they were.},
	author = {Ilona M McNeill and Huw Flatau Harrison and Patrick Dunlop and T.C. Skinner and David Morrison}
}
