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Affective And Cognitive Bases Of Attitudes Toward Environmental Issues, Julie A. Pooley Jan 1996

Affective And Cognitive Bases Of Attitudes Toward Environmental Issues, Julie A. Pooley

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This present study seeks to determine the bases of our attitudes toward environmental issues. Is it what we think and believe (cognition) about the environment that determines our attitudes or is it what we feel (affect) that informs us. Previous literature indicates that in some areas affect may be a better predictor of attitudes than cognition. Furthermore the environmental education literature suggests that affect may be a key entry point for environmental education Using Zanna & Rempel's (1988) attitude structure model, the present study seeks to replicate and extend the work of Eagly, Mladinic and Otto (1994) using a free …