Promoting attitude change and expressed willingness to take action toward climate change in college students

By Gale M. Sinatra, C. Kardash, Gita Taasoobshirazi, Doug Lombardi. 2012

183 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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In Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law

1. Gale M. Sinatra
2. Doug Lombardi
3. E. Michael Nussbaum

In Social Psychology

1. Doug Lombardi
2. E. Michael Nussbaum
3. Gale M. Sinatra
4. B. Hofer
5. Dorothe Kienhues
6. Gerald A. Knezek
7. Rhonda Christensen
8. Jihyun Lee

In Sociology and Political Science

1. Gale M. Sinatra
2. Doug Lombardi
3. E. Michael Nussbaum
4. Gerald A. Knezek
5. Joseph A. Henderson
6. Rhonda Christensen
7. B. Hofer
8. Dorothe Kienhues

Citations in the corpus

• Plausibility Judgments in Conceptual Change and Epistemic Cognition (2016, background): “Sinatra et al. (2012) found that another need for closure subcomponent, specifically close-mindedness, was related to undergraduates’ willingness to commit to actions that would mitigate climate change.”
• Emotions about Teaching about Human-Induced Climate Change (2013, result): “The epistemic motive of decisiveness in judgment and choices may also have a strong impact on climate change instruction, as suggested by the results of this study and earlier studies conducted by Sinatra et al. (2012).”
• Addressing Challenges to Public Understanding of Science: Epistemic Cognition, Motivated Reasoning, and Conceptual Change (2014, background): “Sinatra et al. (2012) also found that as individuals expressed greater openness, they expressed greater willingness to take mitigative actions.”
• Professional development design considerations in climate change education: teacher enactment and student learning (2018, background): “We echo the call of other climate change educational researchers (e.g. Herman, 2015; Lester et al., 2006; Sinatra et al., 2012) that science educators need strategies for moving beyond teaching the state of knowledge toward an action-oriented stance that provides students with the tools for…”
• The Climate Change Attitude Survey: Measuring Middle School Student Beliefs and Intentions to Enact Positive Environmental Change (2015, background): “Many of the surveys that have been used to measure attitudes toward the environment were developed for adults (Weigel & Weigel, 1978; Sinatra et al., 2012; Milfont & Duckitt, 2010).”