We study whether compulsory religious education in schools affects students' religiosity as adults. We exploit the staggered termination of compulsory religious education across German states in models with state and cohort fixed effects. Using three different datasets, we find that abolishing compulsory religious education significantly reduced…

Values are examined as correlates of social perceptions in organizations, and there is some evidence that a shift in value orientations accompanies a promotion in the hierarchy. (Author/RA)

Changes in student values from 1952 to 1968 were extensive while change in values from 1968 to 1974 indicate a reversal toward more conservative values. (DE)

Concludes that no evidence exists to support the claim that advertising has the power to change human values, although advertising can be said to inform some members of the culture about the predominant value system that is used in a culture at a particular time. (RL)

Recently collected data from a survey of the attitudes of 1,843 elite members of both traditional and new institutions towards abortion indicate that, barring a major religious revival, a relatively permissive abortion policy will probably continue whether or not the Supreme Court curtails or overturns Roe vs. Wade. (FMW)

Students from seven institutions of higher education reported their preferences for different paradigms of service at the beginning of their service-learning courses. At the end of the courses, they described the associated service activities in terms of the same paradigms and also completed scales describing their learning outcomes and attitudes…

An understanding of the interdependency of all life and the need for deep-seated changes in economic, political, and educational values on the part of each individual can bring about a sense of personal responsibility and active involvement in the struggle for decent human survival. (JD)

The investigator undertook to clarify the survival goal (physical and psychological) in relation to cultural survival (in general, the sum total of moral values of individuals and social groups). An important conclusion appears to be that clarification of end goals proposed (course of action aimed at resolution of conflict) is desirable.…

The article's purpose is to help the reader develop an understanding of one's own values and attitudes toward poverty and to better understand how others view poverty. Two research perspectives are used: an adaptation of the value clarification process and the author's typology of societal values and attitudes towards poverty. (Author/BP)

Hypothesizes that beliefs to learning will be considered by the subject to be more easily influenced than those which are intrinsic. Table and bibliography. (RW)

This study used the national crisis following President Nixon's decision to send troops into Cambodia as an opportunity to investigate the effectiveness of social influence variables (sex and clothing attire) under conditions of high ego-involvement. Four hundred and forty-six adult passersby were presented an antiwar petition by the authors (one…

Research on justice has taken many directions. What people see as just and unjust, how they react to perceived injustice, and what principles of justice are preferred in different contexts are some of the questions that have been posed in the literature. Less time has been spent on the related questions of whether people change over time in these…

Objective evidence indicates that despite public fears and the claims of those who would make English the official language of the United States, it is not English, but minority tongues that are threatened in this country today. In the last 5 years, educators have noticed a sharp decline in native language skills among Native American children.…

Children who listened to "William's Doll,""Giving Tree,""Bread and Jam for Frances," and "My Grandson Lew," changed their attitudes in the respective areas of sex role stereotyping, friendship, death, and risk taking. (MKM)

This study produced data that were benficial in counseling students and in institutional policy decision making. (Author)