Attitude Toward the Environment as a Special Case of Attitude Toward all Living Things
Ray, J. J., & Lovejoy, F. H. (1984). Attitude toward the environment as a special case of attitude toward all living things. Journal of Social Psychology, 123, 2, 285-286.
M. Maccoby's (1972) attitude scale, which measures E. Fromm's (1973) concept of "biophilia" (emotional commitment to life), was administered to 45 university students, 54 Ss from groups for unemployed youth, and 58 young conservative activists. Ss also completed an environmentalism scale. Results suggest that emotionalism played only a small part in environmentalist attitudes and that conservatives were not less biophilic than the other groups. Thus, findings do not support the Fromm-Maccoby theory. (4 ref)
