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Teaching and Learning in Environmental Education: Developing Environmental Conceptions

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Ballantyne, R. R. & Packer, J. M. (1995). Teaching and learning in environmental education: Developing environmental conceptions. Journal of Environmental Education, 27, 2, 25-32.
Presents a theoretical model for developing environmental conceptions that incorporate environmental knowledge, attitudes/values, and behavioral orientations. Developing conceptio…

An Immediate Response to Environmentally Disturbing News and the Environmental Attitudes of College Students

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Gardos, V. T. & Dodd, D. K. (1995). An immediate response to environmentally disturbing news and the environmental attitudes of college students. Psychological Reports, 77, 3, pt 2, 1121-1122.
Examined the effects of a news article about a devastating oil spill and inadequate clean-up efforts on the environmental attitudes of 31 male and 34 female college students (aged…

Pro-Environmental Habits: Propensity Levels in Behavioral Change

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Dahlstrand, U. & Biel, A. (1997). Pro-environmental habits: Propensity levels in behavioral change. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 27, 7, 588-601.
Examined relationships between habits, beliefs about products, choice criteria for purchasing, and perceptions of such factors, applied to the area of buying home detergents and w…

Green Buying: The Influence of Environmental Concern on Consumer Behavior

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Mainieri, T., Barnett, E. G., Valdero,T. & Unipan, J. B. (1997). Green buying: The influence of environmental concern on consumer behavior. Journal of Social Psychology, 137, 2, 189-204.
Investigated variables that predict "green buying" (i.e., buying products that are environmentally beneficial). These included awareness about environmental impacts of products, s…

Effort as a Moderator of the Attitude-Behavior Relationship: General Environmental Concern and Recycling

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Schultz, P. W. & Oskamp, S. (1996). Effort as a moderator of the attitude-behavior relationship: General environmental concern and recycling. Social Psychology Quarterly, 59, 4, 375-383.
Examined the role of effort in the link between attitudes and behavior, and tested the possibility that effort can reconcile the disparate findings on the relationship between env…

Differences in Environmental Orientation Among Homeowners

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Gebhardt, A. M. & Lindsey, G. (1995). Differences in environmental orientation among homeowners. Journal of Environmental Education, 27, 1, 4-13.
Used responses to a contingent valuation survey to examine how 100 homeowners (59 men and 41 women) distinguished among 5 environmental orientations (an outdoors person, a conserv…

Gender and Environmentalism: Results from the 1993 General Social Survey

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Blocker, T. J. & Eckberg, D. L. (1997). Gender and environmentalism: Results from the 1993 General Social Survey. Social Science Quarterly, 78, 4, 841-858.
This research tests the proposal that women will be more concerned about the environment than men because of their socialization to the caregiver role and because of their structu…

The Development of an Environmental Values Short Form

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Zimmermann, L. K. (1996). The development of an environmental values short form. Journal of Environmental Education, 28, 1, 32-37.
Developed a scale to assess environmental values in adults and, eventually, children. First, several subscales from the Children's Environmental Response Inventory (CERI; T. E. Bu…

Should you Advertise to Hostile Audiences?

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Winters, L. C. (1977). Should you advertise to hostile audiences?. Journal of Advertising Research, 17, 3, 7-15.
Describes how radio and TV advertising was used to counteract the sharp public hostility toward Standard Oil of California and Chevron that developed after the oil embargo. The co…

Demographics, Attitudes, and Behavioral Responses to Important Environmental Events

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Nietzel, M. T. & Winett, R. A. (1977). Demographics, attitudes, and behavioral responses to important environmental events. American Journal of Community Psychology, 1977, 2, 195-206.
To assess energy conservation attitudes and behaviors, an Environmental Quality Questionnaire was developed and administered to 143 city residents and 135 undergraduates at 3 diff…

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