Public attitudes towards migrants: understanding cross‐national and individual differences

Individual differences in attitudes towards gossip

Four studies were conducted to develop and validate a measure of individual differences in attitudes towards gossip (ATG). In Study 1, exploratory factor analyses of responses to a pool of ATG items identified two factors reflecting attitudes about gossip s Social Value (SV) and Moral Value (MV), which provided the basis for constructing a 12-item ATG scale. In Study 2, the SV and MV factors we...

Mediating punitiveness: understanding public attitudes towards work-related fatality cases

Towards an understanding of British public attitudes concerning human cloning.

The ability of scientists to apply cloning technology to humans has provoked public discussion and media coverage. The present paper reports on a series of studies examining public attitudes to human cloning in the UK, bringing together a range of quantitative and qualitative methods to address this question. These included a nationally representative survey, an experimental vignette study, foc...

Public Understanding and Attitudes towards Meat Chicken Production and Relations to Consumption

Little is known about public knowledge of meat chicken production and how it influences attitudes to birds' welfare and consumer behaviour. We interviewed 506 members of the public in SE Queensland; Australia; to determine how knowledge of meat chicken production and slaughter links to attitudes and consumption. Knowledge was assessed from 15 questions and low scores were supported by responden...

Understanding physicians' attitudes towards hormone therapy.

OBJECTIVE We sought to understand the relationship among components of residency education about hormone therapy (HT), knowledge about HT, and provider attitudes toward HT during a time of rapidly changing practice guidelines. METHODS We surveyed residents in the University of Pittsburgh Internal Medicine residency programs between February to April 2002 (after the release of the Heart Estrog...