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Attitude toward the environment as a special case of attitude toward all living things

  • 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.

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Author:F. H. Lovejoy, J. J. Ray
Parent Title (English):Journal of Social Psychology, Vol. 123 (No. 2, 1984) pp. 285-286.
Document Type:Articles
Language:English
Year of first Publication:1984
Release Date:2014/01/28
Format:PDF-scan to download
IdNo:Lovejoy_F_H_and_Ray_J_J_1984
Writings about Erich Fromm (Secondary Literature):Articles / Artikel
Erich Fromm's Library and Erich Fromm Archive:Articles / Artikel
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