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Liu, Shu-Chiu; Lin, Huann-shyang – Journal of Environmental Education, 2015
A draw-and-explain task and questionnaire were used to explore Taiwanese undergraduate students' mental models of the environment and whether and how they relate to their environmental affect and behavioral commitment. We found that students generally held incomplete mental models of the environment, focusing on objects rather than on processes or…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Environment, Cognitive Structures
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Anderson, Craig A.; Morrow, Melissa – Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 1995
Extended and tested Deutsch's theory of competition effects. Predicted that people view competitive situations as inherently more aggressive than cooperative ones. Predicted that leading people to think of an aggressive situation in competitive terms would increase aggressive behavior. Increase of kill ratio occurred in absence of changes in…
Descriptors: Aggression, Behavior, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Structures
Merron, Keith; Torbert, William R. – 1983
Since 1980, Loevinger's Sentence Completion Test has been used to explore the relationship between ego development and managerial effectiveness in the context of Boston College's Masters of Business Administration (MBA) program. According to the theory of ego development developed by Loevinger and others, most adults either inhabit one of four…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Attitude Measures, Behavior, Beliefs