Attitudes and Dispositional Optimism of Animal Rights Demonstrators
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Attitudes and Dispositional Optimism of Animal Rights Demonstrators
Mail-in surveys were distributed to animal activists attending the 1996 March for the Animals. Age and gender demographic characteristics of the 209 activists who participated in the study were similar to those of the 1990 March for the Animals demonstrators. Most goals of the animal rights movement were judged to be moderately to critically important, although beliefs about their chances of be...
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عنوان ژورنال: Society & Animals
سال: 1998
ISSN: 1063-1119,1568-5306
DOI: 10.1163/156853098x00014