Reviving campbell's paradigm for attitude research

Personality and Social Psychology Review

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 351-367

  Kaiser, Florian G ^a,b   Byrka, Katarzyna ^b   Hartig, Terry ^c  

^a OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

attitude measurement; attitude behavior relationship; attitudes; conservation (ecological behavior); environmental attitudes

Indexed keywords

EID: 77957256939     PISSN: 10888683     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1088868310366452     Document Type: Article

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