Detailed Information on Publication Record
2015
Connecting to Nature in the Lab through “Earth Song” : The Malleability of Implicit and Explicit Attitudes towards Nature
CHABADA, Tomáš, Tomáš HAMPEJS, Jan SKALÍK, Eva VÝTVAROVÁ, Jaroslav HLINKA et. al.Basic information
Original name
Connecting to Nature in the Lab through “Earth Song” : The Malleability of Implicit and Explicit Attitudes towards Nature
Authors
CHABADA, Tomáš (703 Slovakia, guarantor, belonging to the institution), Tomáš HAMPEJS (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Jan SKALÍK (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Eva VÝTVAROVÁ (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution) and Jaroslav HLINKA (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution)
Edition
Sociální studia, Masarykova univerzita, 2015, 1214-813X
Other information
Language
English
Type of outcome
Článek v odborném periodiku
Field of Study
50000 5. Social Sciences
Country of publisher
Czech Republic
Confidentiality degree
není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství
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RIV identification code
RIV/00216224:14230/15:00085381
Organization unit
Faculty of Social Studies
Keywords in English
Environmental attitudes; Connectedness to Nature Scale; New Ecological Paradigm Scale; Implicit Association Test; implicit attitudes; context sensitivity
Tags
International impact, Reviewed
Změněno: 8/4/2016 12:55, Ing. Alena Raisová
Abstract
V originále
The focus of our empirical study was to determine whether a short laboratory-based intervention manipulating the self-nature relation through a new construct of environmental problem salience is capable of causing a situational change in implicit and explicit attitudes towards nature. We were interested in how the self would connect itself to the state of nature portrayed as a threatening problem for which the self is possibly responsible. The participants were divided into two groups based on their environmental profiles and exposed to a video clip which implied a global environmental problem. The study treatment was designed to make the environmental problem salient. We have observed a clear effect of the field of study, yet the sample size (N=77) was not sufficient for the treatment effect to be statistically significant. Our study brings mainly preliminary result and further and more robust research is needed. We observed a slight change in attitudes. The attitudes had divergent directions according to the environmental profile of the recipient. The results suggest that the participants with a low environmental profile more deeply perceived the problem as someone else’s problem and dissociated themselves from the nature framed by the treatment, while the participants with a high environmental profile accepted the problem and associated themselves with the nature framed by the treatment. Our findings are in agreement with the critique of the apocalyptical discursive pattern, which considers planned change of environmental policy with apocalyptical discursive pattern to be ineffective.
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