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Download full textKaiser, Florian G.; And Others – 1996
This paper establishes environmental attitude, a construct in environmental psychology, as a powerful predictor of ecological behavior. Based on Ajzen's theory of planned behavior, this study uses a unified concept of attitude and a probabilistic measurement approach. Questionnaire data from members of two ideologically different Swiss…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Cognitive Structures, Environment, Environmental Education
Peer reviewedAdams, C.; And Others – Science, Technology, & Human Values, 1988
Presents about 200 abstracts of papers presented at the joint conference of the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) and the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST) Amsterdam, 16-19 November 1988. (YP)
Descriptors: Attitudes, College Science, Conferences, Ethics
Peer reviewedBerbekar, Rosalia – Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society, 1988
Describes the nature of technology. Summarizes the claims of the anti-technologists, such as Marcuse and Ellul, and the moderate pro-technologists, such as Ferkiss, Mesthene, Brooks and Bowers, National Academy of Engineering, Norman, and Weizenbaum. Provides 79 references. (YP)
Descriptors: Appropriate Technology, Attitudes, Futures (of Society), Humanities
Peer reviewedMeserve, Lee A. – Ohio Journal of Science, 1998
Examines problems that arise when society comes to rely on the technology of its time and provides support for this contention through data about unintended effects of polychlorinated biphenyl. Argues that reliance on technology results in a loss of previously accumulated knowledge, and the general public becomes convinced it can have anything…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Efficiency, Hazardous Materials, Innovation
