OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to investigate the understanding, attitude and use of nutrition label among consumers in china. METHODS A cross-sectional survey with a self-structured questionnaire was conducted among 1153 consumers, who were recruited from different supermarkets during March to May 2014 in Wuhu city of china. RESULTS The result shows that the subjective understanding o...

In their 1974 study, Hendrick and Seyfried found that experimental group subjects given an attitude change treatment (reading a persuasive essay) were more attracted to a stimulus stranger who espoused their posttreatment attitudes than to a stimulus stranger who espoused their pretreatment attitudes. Control subjects, however, remained more attracted to a stimulus stranger espousing their pret...

Use of highlighting is a prevalent study strategy among students, but evidence regarding its benefit for learning is mixed. We examined highlighting in relation to distributed study and students’ attitudes about highlighting as a study strategy. Participants read a text passage twice while highlighting or not, with their readings either distributed or massed, and followed by a week-delayed test...

Extensive reading (ER) is an instructional option steadily gaining support and recognition in second language (L2) reading pedagogy. Even though many attempts have been made to unravel the impact of ER on L2 development, there is a paucity of investigation into the affective domains of reading. The current study helps fill this gap by examining the effect of ER on L2 reading attitude. Participa...

One of the fundamental aspects of culture is the relationship it prescribes between individuals and environment. Am I part of the natural environment, or am I separate and perhaps superior to nature? The answer to this question influences the types of attitudes that individuals within a given culture are likely to develop, the types of environmental behaviors that individuals are likely to adop...