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Hands on or Hands Off? Disgust Sensitivity and Preference for Environmental Education Activities

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Bixler, Robert D; Floyd, Myron F. (1999). Hands on or hands off? Disgust sensitivity and preference for environmental education activities. . Journal of Environmental Education, 30, 3, 4-11.
Explored high disgust sensitivity (DS) as an intrapersonal barrier that constrains preference for learning opportunities involving manipulation of some organic materials. 450 …

Action Tendencies and Characteristics of Environmental Risks

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Boehm, Gisela; Pfister, Hans-Ruediger. (Jun 2000). Action tendencies and characteristics of environmental risks. . Acta Psychologica, 104, 3, 317-337.
Proposes a model of risk evaluation that includes consequentialist and deontological judgments as well as specific emotions as mediators of action tendencies. 400 Ss (aged 16-…

Life Paths into Effective Environmental Action

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Chawla, Louise. (1999). Life paths into effective environmental action. . Journal of Environmental Education, 31, 1, 15-26.
Explored US and Norwegian environmentalists' self-awareness of the experiences that have led them to a sense of connection to the environment and dedication to protect it. Str…

Expanding and Evaluating Motives for Environmentally Responsible Behavior

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De Young, Raymond (2000). Expanding and evaluating motives for environmentally responsible behavior. . Journal of Social Issues, 56, 3, 509-526.
This article contends that while striving to promote environmentally responsible behavior, we have focused attention too narrowly on just 2 classes of motives. There is a ne…

The Power of Perception: Health Risk Attributed to Air

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Elliott, Susan J; Cole, Donald C; Krueger, Paul; Voorberg, Nancy; Wakefield, Sarah (1999). The power of perception: Health risk attributed to air pollution in an urban industrial neighbourhood. . Risk Analysis, 19, 4, 621-634.
Describes a multi-stakeholder process designed to assess the potential health risks associated with adverse air quality in an urban industrial neighborhood. The paper briefly …

Environmental Attitudes and

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Arbuthnot, J. (1974). Environmental knowledge and recycling behavior as a fuction of attitudes and personality characteristics. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 1, 1, 119-121.
This dissertation examines the relationship between environmental attitudes and environmental managers' behavioral intentions. Two studies were completed. The preliminary st…

Influence of Environmental Reasoning and Motivation on

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Elnick, Alexandra Brady. (Sept 2000). Influence of environmental reasoning and motivation on environmental behavior among adults. . Dissertation Abstracts International: Section B: the Sciences & Engineering., 61, 3B, p.1670.
Worsening of our global environment is a contemporary problem of increasing magnitude that individuals as well as industry, government, and environmental groups are able to in…

Effects of an Extended Case Study on Environmental

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Culen, Gerald R; Volk, Trudi L. (200). Effects of an extended case study on environmental behavior and associated variables in seventh-and eighth-grade students. . Journal of Environmental Education. , 31, 2, 9-15.
Assessed the effects of an extended case study that focused on wetland issues with 7th and 8th graders. The extended case study is an instructional method that incorporates th…

Testing the Effectiveness of Supermarket-Based Environmental Shopping Campaigns in Changing Consumer Behavior in New York City

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Clarke, Marjorie J. (Apr 2000). Testing the effectiveness of supermarket-based environmental shopping campaigns in changing consumer behavior in New York City. . Dissertation Abstracts International: Section B: the Sciences & Engineering., 60, 9B, p. 4491.
To advance waste prevention research, this study tested two environmental shopping educational campaigns in Manhattan supermarkets to impart information and motivation to shop…

Environmental Ethical Reasoning: A Cohort Analysis

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Clement, Kent Gregory (Nov 1998). Environmental ethical reasoning: A cohort analysis.. Dissertation Abstracts International: Section B: the Sciences & Engineering., 59, 5B, p.2445.
Beyond the level of organic material one must use for food and shelter in order to survive, the amount of natural resources one consumes is a matter of choice (Miller, 1994). …
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