In response to calls for reform in undergraduate biology education, we conducted research examining how varying active-learning strategies impacted students' conceptual understanding, attitudes, and motivation in two sections of a large-lecture introductory cell and molecular biology course. Using a quasi-experimental design, we collected quantitative data to compare participants' conceptual un...

A latent-class model of environmental preference groups is developed and estimated with only the answers to a set of attitudinal questions. Economists do not typically use this type of data in estimation. Group membership is latent/unobserved. The intent is to identify and characterize heterogeneity in the preferences for environmental amenities in terms of a small number of preference groups. ...

Abstract The aim of this review was to determine which sociodemographic, illness-related and psychological/attitudinal factors impact on a person’s decision to seek help and the factors associated with attitudes to help-seeking in rural contexts. A computer search of the literature for 1990 – 2006 using the terms ‘‘help-seeking’’ and ‘‘mental’’ found 350 studies. Examination of the abstracts by...

The purpose of this paper was to demonstrate empirically that attitudinal loyalty and satisfaction are divergent concepts. The results of this paper indicate that attitudinal loyalty is satisfaction driven and that satisfaction and attitudinal loyalty are related but divergent concepts. However had the analysis relied exclusively on correlation or exploratory factor analysis the empirical resul...

A by-product of increasing recent attention to implicit measures of attitudes is the controversial hypothesis of dissociated attitude representations (i.e., dual attitudes). This reference to dissociation implies the existence of distinct structural representations underlying distinguishable classes of attitude manifestations. In psychology, appeals to dissociation range from the mundane to the...

...............................................................................................................................v Introduction..........................................................................................................................1 A History of Supreme Court Jurisprudence, Public Opinion, and the Death Penalty .........2 Public Opinion on the Death Penalty.........

A novel intuitionistic fuzzy set (IFS) score function and an intuitionistic fuzzy preference relation (IFPR) quantifier guided non-dominance based prioritisation method are introduced. Based on Yager’s continuous OWA (COWA) operator, the interval-valued intuitionistic fuzzy COWA (IVIF-COWA) operator is defined, and a new attitudinal expected score function for interval-valued intuitionistic fuz...