Effects of prior beliefs on behaviors.

Table 3: Effects of prior beliefs on behaviors.

	Reusable bag use frequency	Recycling frequency
Age > = 50	0.02	0.30^*
Female	0.19^*	- 0.23
Prior knowledge	0.19^***	0.22^***
Pre-treatment belief variables
Individual actions matter^{^}	0.11	0.20
Personal responsibility	0.07	0.10
NEP-based index	0.13^*	- 0.02
Plastics lead to litter	0.14^*	- 0.05
Plastics lead to landfill pollution	0.04	0.07
Plastics lead to ocean pollution	0.03	0.11
Constant	1.10^***	3.24^***

Each column represents a separate OLS regression.

^{^}Reverse-coded; ^*p < 0.05; ^**p < 0.01; ^***p < 0.001.