Sentences with phrase «influence public attitudes»

For the present time, I find it fascinating that, when Ms Freese mentions on page 191 of her 2003 «Coal: A Human History» book that the coal industry «launched public relations campaigns to influence public attitudes, including some highly misleading ones.

In discussing genetically modified food, Susan Watts omits two issues that influence public attitudes (26 July, p 26).

«Parents» reasons for not vaccinating children influence public attitudes toward them.»

Repeatedly targeting people with misinformation that is designed to appeal to their political biases may well influence public attitudes, cause moral outrage, and drive partisans further apart, especially when we're given the false impression that everyone else in our social network is espousing the same opinion.

In this role, she utilizes digital media to connect online audiences to FRAC, in order to inform, educate, and influence public attitudes on hunger.

This multi-year, multi-discipline study is exploring how communications about early childhood development (ECD) influences public attitudes and policy preferences.

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As they despaired over fostering change through the process, secular antiwar movements — which strongly influenced church attitudes, both negatively and positively — became extreme in their efforts to awaken a stubborn public.

It reflects both the «success - God's blessing» attitude as well as an opportunistic strategy by broadcasters to increase their own influence and promote their own cause in the presence of general public gullibility and naivety.

It saddens me that society's negative attitudes toward breastfeeding in public could influence young Jewish mothers to avoid breastfeeding.

Ingram and Johnson worked with fathers to increase breastfeeding support for mothers and found that fathers» attitudes to breastfeeding in public and knowing how much milk the baby was getting had the most influence on whether they supported their partner to continue to breastfeed [52].

Some barriers include the negative attitudes of women and their partners and family members, as well as health care professionals, toward breastfeeding, whereas the main reasons that women do not start or give up breastfeeding are reported to be poor family and social support, perceived milk insufficiency, breast problems, maternal or infant illness, and return to outside employment.2 Several strategies have been used to promote breastfeeding, such as setting standards for maternity services3, 4 (eg, the joint World Health Organization — United Nations Children's Fund [WHO - UNICEF] Baby Friendly Initiative), public education through media campaigns, and health professionals and peer - led initiatives to support individual mothers.5 — 9 Support from the infant's father through active participation in the breastfeeding decision, together with a positive attitude and knowledge about the benefits of breastfeeding, has been shown to have a strong influence on the initiation and duration of breastfeeding in observational studies, 2,10 but scientific evidence is not available as to whether training fathers to manage the most common lactation difficulties can enhance breastfeeding rates.

«We looked into the question of whether — and if so, to what extent — the public's attitude to climate policy and the risks of climate change can be influenced,» explains Thomas Bernauer, professor of political science at ETH Zurich.

Ambassador Cowal spent most of her career in the field of public diplomacy, which in a U.S. context aims to influence the opinions and attitudes of publics overseas that have an impact on American policies.

Citizens» control over spending is not direct, of course, but in most Western countries public attitudes influence how well or how poorly appropriators fund science.

In a study, the performance of players in a racecar video game influenced their attitude about the actual brand of the car they used in the game, said Frank Dardis, associate professor of advertising and public relations, Penn State.

The Centre believes that scientists can have a huge impact on the way the media cover scientific issues, by engaging more quickly and more effectively with the stories that are influencing public debate and attitudes to science.

The Centre is now housed in the Wellcome Collection, and believes that scientists can have a huge impact on the way the media cover scientific issues, by engaging more quickly and more effectively with the stories that are influencing public debate and attitudes to science.

The SMC believes that scientists can have a huge impact on the way the media cover scientific issues, by engaging more quickly and more effectively with the stories that are influencing public debate and attitudes to science.

no. 1140827), which believes that scientists can have a huge impact on the way the media cover scientific issues, by engaging more quickly and more effectively with the stories that are influencing public debate and attitudes to science.

Attitudes: support for diversity (racial integration), a perception of inequity (that the public schools provide a lower quality education for low - income and minority kids), support for voluntary prayer in the schools, support for greater parent influence, desire for smaller schools, belief in what I call the «public school ideology» (which measures a normative attachment to public schooling and its ideals), a belief in markets (that choice and competition are likely to make schools more effective), and a concern that moral values are poorly taught in the public schools.

• Aside from race, all of the attitudes in the model — regarding inequity, public school ideology, prayer, moral values, parent influence, school size, and markets — appear to have an influence, and in the direction choice advocates would expect.

Criticism is not studying literature but its judges - in order to create a readership, public attitude to those or other writers, actively influence the course of literary process.

The scenario becomes more complicated, Simon says, when the advice giver is an academic, purporting to speak disinterestedly — as an expert witness, for example — in order to influence public conduct or attitudes.

The report goes on to say that «although Justice Camp made significant efforts after complaints were made to the Council to reform the thinking and the attitudes which influenced his misguided approach to the Trial, in the particular circumstances of this inquiry, education — including social context education — can not adequately repair the damage caused to public confidence through his conduct of the Wagar Trial.»

Advances in prevention in public health2 provide a model for prevention of adolescent health - risk behaviors by focusing on risk and protective factors predictive of these behaviors.3, 4 Research on the predictors of school failure, delinquency, drug abuse, teen pregnancy, and violence indicates that many of the same factors predict these different outcomes.5, 6 Recent research has shown that bonding to school and family protects against a broad range of health - risk behaviors in adoles cence.6 Yet, prevention studies typically have focused narrowly on a specific outcome, such as preventing substance abuse, and on attitudes and social influences that predict that outcome.7, 8 Previous studies on prevention have not sought to address the shared risk and protective factors for diverse health - risk behaviors that are the main threats to adolescent health.

His research centers on several main issues: (1) the implications of religion and spirituality for mental and physical health and mortality risk; (2) religious variations in family life, with particular attention to intimate relationships and childrearing; (3) the role of religious institutions, practices, and values among racial and ethnic minority populations in the United States; (4) the influence of religious factors on political attitudes and policy preferences; and (5) public opinion surrounding issues of race, ethnicity, and immigration in the contemporary United States.