Key Takeaways:

• Emotional Significance of Homes: Homeowners view their residences as places of deep emotional value, not just as financial assets.
  
  
• Motivational Factors: Beyond financial savings, motivations such as control over the environment, happiness, and altruistic identity play crucial roles in the decision to retrofit.
  
  
• Heuristic Framework (HCF): Ekaterina’s HCF framework provides a comprehensive approach to understanding the diverse motivational priorities of homeowners.
  
  
• Trust and Negative Experiences: Trust is critical in the retrofit process; negative experiences can deter homeowners significantly more than positive ones can attract them.
  
  
• Visual Communication: The power of visual storytelling in communicating the benefits and emotional rewards of low-carbon dwellings is highly effective.
  
  

Notable Quotes:

1. "Home is a place of a great emotional significance for individuals." - Yekhaterina
   
   
2. "People felt more in control with a home that has low carbon dwelling." - Yekhaterina
   
   
3. "We can use such framing to shape frameworks, cognitive frameworks of others, to feel that such retrofit would be beneficial for them." - Yekhaterina
   
   
4. "A support for step-by-step retrofit would be beneficial." - Yekhaterina
   
   
5. "The negative opinions are more damaging, are of greater magnitude of significance than positive ones." - Yekhaterina
   
   

Resources:

• Yekhaterina's Research Paper 
• Blog on the Research 
• Edinburgh Housing Podcast 

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