Attitudes toward Plants and Gardening

Economic Gardening in Australia: measuring attitudes towards growth

In 2006 University of Wollongong researchers were invited to participate in an Economic Gardening project being implemented in the New South Wales local government areas of Shellharbour and Kiama. This paper outlines the history of the “economic gardening” concept and the challenges for participant selection and training. We propose an alterative approach to that undertaken by previous economic...

Translation Technology Tools and Professional Translators’ Attitudes toward Them

Today technology is an integral part of professional translation; and it is generally assumed that translators’ attitudes toward translation technology tools influence their interaction with technology (Bundgaard, 2017). Therefore, the present two-phase study seeks to shed some light on what translation technology tools are and how professional translators feel toward them. The research method ...

Political Ideology and Stigmatizing Attitudes Toward Depression: The Swedish Case

Background Stigmatizing attitudes toward persons with mental disorders is a well-established and global phenomenon often leading to discrimination and social exclusion. Although previous research in the United States showed that conservative ideology has been related to stigmatizing attitudes toward mental disorders, there is reason to believe that this mechanism plays a different role in...

Stress and attitudes toward suicide.

Attitudes of Iranians toward the Becker Proposition

This paper evaluates attitudes of Iranians toward crossing red traffic lights and their sensitivity to fines. Economic theory of crime under expected utility predicts that because of the possibility of severe punishments, risk adverse individuals would not cross red lights. This is implied by the Becker proposition. However, among 262 individuals surveyed, more than half of the sample has previ...