To satisfy their ever-increasing needs, humans are constantly exerting excessive pressure upon the environment, while now more than ever, adoption of new development practices to halt environmental degradation is becoming necessary. Graduates from all disciplines should have awareness, because decisions as future professionals may affect environment. If, however, we assume that science graduate...

This study investigates the relationship between environmental attitudes and ‘greenness’ of party choice, moderated by exposure to problems such as incidence natural disasters poor air quality. The choice is operationalised share policy in parties' election manifestos. Voting for greener parties especially important protection because votes are keys national, eventually, global action mitigatin...

Health care workers especially medical students are at risk of acquiring infection through occupational exposure. Few studies have reported on medical students’ knowledge of standard precautions and sharp injuries and noted lack of adequate knowledge of standard precautions. To identify deficiencies which could be addressed by education and training, it is useful to measure KAP of medical stude...

Thinking Styles and Environmental Behavior and Attitudes among High School Students S. M. Shobeyri, Ph.D.*   Given the environmental crisis in Iran being one of the severest in the world, and most of environmental problems being rooted in lack of awareness in this regard, it would be up to schools to promote a culture in which the environment is valued and protected. To determine the re...

Environmental challenges are often marked by an intergroup dimension. Political conservatives and progressives are divided on their beliefs about climate change, farmers come into conflict with scientists and environmentalists over water allocation or species protection, and communities oppose big business and mining companies that threaten their local environment. These intergroup tensions are...

Abstract Recent studies have indicated a positive association between patriotism and environmentalism; however, the correlation them has not yet been quantitatively verified. Additionally, differences in “good” versus “blind” ignored environmental behavior studies; thus, theoretical concepts related to their effects on environmentalism empirically tested. The present study aims reveal of good s...

Repeated behaviours in stable contexts can become automatic habits. Habits are resistant to information-based techniques to change behaviour, but are contextually cued, so a change in behaviour context (e.g., location) weakens habit strength and can facilitate greater consideration of the behaviour. This idea was demonstrated in previous work, whereby people with strong environmental attitudes ...