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Wood, Lisa; Giles-Corti, Billie; Zubrick, Stephen R.; Bulsara, Max K. – Environment and Behavior, 2013
Both children and adults benefit from living in communities and neighborhoods that are rich in social capital. However, the research literature is relatively silent with respect to the influence that children may play as catalysts for the formation and maintenance of community or family stocks of social capital. This article investigates whether…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Capital, Neighborhoods, Children
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Kim, Sungbum; Oah, Shezeen; Dickinson, Alyce M. – Environment and Behavior, 2005
The effectiveness of posted feedback on recycling in a lounge area at a South Korean university was studied. Participants were college students, professors, and staff members. The dependent variables were the percentage and number of correctly separated aluminum cans, the percentage and number of correctly separated paper cups, and the weight of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Recycling, Feedback, Written Language
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Jansen-Osmann, Petra; Wiedenbauer, Gunnar – Environment and Behavior, 2004
Three experiments investigated the route-angularity effect, which is demonstrated when a greater number of turns along a route increases the estimated length. So far, a route-angularity effect has not been demonstrated in school-age children. Because of the lack of a developmental theory, this finding could only be explained by a minor control of…
Descriptors: Computation, Geographic Location, Cognitive Processes, Foreign Countries