Feeling for nature

The connectedness to nature scale: A measure of individuals’ feeling in community with nature

Five studies assessed the validity and reliability of the connectedness to nature scale (CNS), a new measure of individuals’ trait levels of feeling emotionally connected to the natural world. Data from two community and three college samples demonstrated that the CNS has good psychometric properties, correlates with related variables (the new environmental paradigm scale, identity as an enviro...

Some Avenues for Feeling

What feeling is the "feeling of knowing?".

Having a word on the tip of our tongue is a mundane and slightly annoying experience. And yet, as Brown’s article helps us see, the theoretical implications of a TOT experience range very widely. The study of TOTs may also turn out to be useful for larger methodological reasons. Here, too, Brown recognizes that the investigation of TOTs offers an especially good example of convergent cognitive ...

The Nature of Fit and the Origins of “Feeling Right”: A Goal-Systemic Perspective

This article considers the notion of regulatory fit from a goal-systemic perspective. It is suggested that regulatory fit, as Avnet and Higgins (2006) define it, corresponds to a match between a person’s activity and his or her (background) process goal of pursuing an (focal) attainment goal in a desired manner. The author considers prior regulatory fit data from this perspective and raises add...

Feeling secure?

Issue: Vol 168, Issue 4327 [2] Related articles: Messy liquidation [7] Is that clear? [8] Do we have a group? [9] PETE MILLER asks where we now stand with the complex transactions in securities legislation KEY POINTS The basic framework of ITA 2007, s 684. Activities that fall within the definition of a 'transaction in securities'. The receipt of 'relevant con...