Educating and supporting people with early-stage dementia has gained increased focus worldwide as a response to an aging population and limited advancements in the medical treatment of the condition. The aim of this study was to explore the experiences of people with early-stage dementia who were provided with support and information through a…

Changing individuals' behaviors is a critical challenge for Extension professionals who encourage good irrigation practices and technologies for landscape water conservation. Multiple messages were used to influence two predictors of behavioral intent informed by the theory of planned behavior, Florida residents' (N = 1,063) attitude and perceived…

In October 2014, the Women's Sports Foundation (WSF), and espnW co-founded "Sports 4 Life", a national grant program to increase participation and retention of African American and Hispanic girls in sports, especially in under-resourced communities. These grants are intended to help small and mid-size organizations in all 50 states…

Improving animal welfare is an important part of the development of the agricultural industry, particularly at a time when intensification and the encroachment of factory-style production systems is making the maintenance of human-animal relations increasingly difficult. Animal science deals with the issue of improving stockmanship by focusing on…

This case study examines the design and facilitation of a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) that focused on attitudinal learning about the topic of animal behaviour and welfare. Findings showed that a team of instructors worked together collaboratively towards realising learning goals and found the experience rewarding. While learners had mixed…

Some brief reflections regarding attitudes and professional competencies are presented for the purpose of clarifying the complementary nature of the two constructs from an educational point of view. Two opposing trends are acknowledged: one identifies attitude (and more specifically, its affective dimension) as a part of competency, the other…

Greater Attitude change will occur when counterattitudinal messages are presented to uncommitted, rather than committed audience members. Persons who perform a counterattitudinal act with potential aversive consequences for the audience show greater attitude change than those for whom the possibility of harmful consequences is low. (Author)

A model of attitudes change having the mathematical characteristics of a hyperbolic function, with major parameters determined by source credibility and discrepancy, is proposed and tested against leading established models of attitude change. The proposed hyperbolic model proved to be a more accurate predictive device than either of the two…

This paper presents six irrational attitudes teachers might hold that could interfere with their successfully learning and implementing behavior modification programs (Author)

This study examined the relationship between incoming information and a person's attitude. The conclusions imply the existance of a cognition, affect, behavior conceptualization of attitude dynamics. (Author/JB)

The author presents a three phase flow model or consistency theory to show the role of education in modifying health behavior. (Author/BY)

Considers social and behavioral problems in effective use of technology to resolve urban information problems. (JY)

This study was undertaken to examine the constellation of attitudes and beliefs felt to be related to health behavior. Two types of health messages were delivered to a group of teenage camp counselors on the disease diabetes. Their attitudes toward the disease in terms of their perception of vulnerability to it, their perception of its severity,…

The development of favorable attitudes toward the police is an essential element of law-focused education, such development takes place during school age. A model illustrating the need for balance between the cognitive, affective, and values domains is presented. (JB)