Community involvement may be essential for conservation programme success. We focus on farmers, asking how and why they believe conservation interventions will work, or not. Here we test models of folk theories of the human motivational factors required for behaviour change, in 3 rural central Chilean communities. We hypothesize that different models will be supported by farmers with different experiences with conservation programmes, and that socioeconomic and production system variation will explain further variation in who supports each working model. We use a multiple methods approach, combining a questionnaire with participant-observation. We find support for three of the working models of human behavioural change, among different socio-economic profiles of farmers. We believe that the schema of working models provides a boundary object to facilitate communication between conservationists and stakeholders, and can help improve conservation project design and implementation.

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人类行为变化的隐性工作模式二：保护计划设计的农民民间理论。

社区参与对于保护计划的成功可能至关重要。我们关注农民，询问他们如何以及为何认为保护干预措施有效或无效。在这里，我们在智利中部的 3 个农村社区测试了行为改变所需的人类动机因素的民间理论模型。我们假设不同的模式将得到具有不同保护计划经验的农民的支持，并且社会经济和生产系统的差异将解释支持每种工作模式的人的进一步差异。我们采用多种方法，将问卷调查与参与者观察相结合。我们在不同社会经济状况的农民中找到了对人类行为改变的三种工作模式的支持。我们相信，工作模型的架构提供了一个边界对象，以促进保护主义者和利益相关者之间的沟通，并有助于改进保护项目的设计和实施。