Sentences with phrase «influencing human attitudes»

The comparatively recent popularity of cognitive behaviorism, with its implicit nod to free will in its emphasis on the importance of beliefs, concepts, and ideas as well as environment in influencing human attitudes and conduct, shows that in some circles determinism is being somewhat moderated.

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Though the roots of this attitude can be found in ancient mythic and religious forms of thought, in the past three centuries the estrangement of human subjects from the natural world in turn has been built up in our imaginations under the influence of certain types of scientific epistemology and cosmology.

All along the way, attitudes about children and parenting practices were largely influenced by strict religious dogma or experts in the fields of psychology and human development.

The authors argue that research on social justice attitudes among adolescents is a valuable form of social action, which can influence policies and programs that support human rights.

In lyrical prose, Fox ruminates on how these perceptions might influence our attitude toward the planet once human travel is possible.

During this lesson from the Equality and Human Rights Commission students start to think about how their attitudes and opinions are influenced.

The bubbles, which you've seen here before, represent the size of segments of society that have fairly well defined attitudes on science pointing to a rising human influence on the climate.

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.

The social influence model86 is also a useful conceptual framework to guide development of media interventions, as it highlights the core principles that promote successful persuasion and influence; for example, to the extent that interventions make use of the power of social validation by similar or liked others (i.e. «others like me are doing it») and of humans» tendency to act in accordance with prior commitments to others and to deep - seated values, they are likely to have more influence on viewers» attitudes, intents and behaviours.