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PUBLIC ATTITUDES TOWARD DENTISTS: A U.S. HOUSEHOLD SURVEY

The Journal of the American Dental Association, 1995
This article reports on research that assessed public attitudes toward dentists and the dental profession and compared them to dentists' own attitudes about their roles. Enhanced knowledge of patients' perceptions can help practicing dentists gain a better understanding of public perceptions of themselves and of dentistry as a profession, as well as ...
M R, DiMatteo, C A, McBride, D A, Shugars, E H, O'Neil   +3 more
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Consumer Attitudes to Flammability in Household Textiles

Home Economics Research Journal, 1985
Concern about household fires has focused attention on contributory causes such as the flammability of household textiles. The purpose of this study was to measure consumer beliefs about and attitudes toward various aspects of house hold textile flammability, and the regulation of this product characteristic.
S.A. Brown, E.M. Crown
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Household's risk attitudes in Indonesian villages

Applied Economics, 2003
This paper estimates attitudes towards risk using data obtained through interviews of 400 households in villages in Indonesia. Participants were invited to play investment games in order to identify household risk attitudes. The game result supports the hypothesis of non-decreasing partial relative risk aversion.
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Demographics of Household Attitudes towards Food Defense

2006
Literature examining demographics of consumers most concerned about acts of agro terrorism or terrorism in general is limited due to inadequate data. A first effort to fill this information gap was made possible by a 2005 survey conducted by the University of Minnesota. The “National Survey of Attitudes of U.S.
Dettmann, Rachael L., Stinson, Thomas F.
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NORTH DAKOTA HOUSEHOLDS' ATTITUDES TOWARD WETLAND PRESERVATION

1998
Over one-half (57%) of the 1,757 respondents to a random survey of North Dakota households agree that all remaining natural wetlands in the state should be preserved. Nearly two- thirds (63%) of the respondents support compensating landowners for preserving wetlands.
Leitch, Jay A., Hirsch, Steven A.
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Family Experiences, Attitudes, and Household Safety Practices Regarding Firearms

Clinical Pediatrics, 1993
To assess families' experiences with shootings and firearm ownership and attitudes, 208 children aged 5 to 12 years were interviewed and 242 parents filled out a questionnaire, all at an urban hospital. Forty-three percent of the parents and 25% of the children had personal knowledge of shootings.
C C, Wiley, R, Casey
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Predicting households’ attitudes and product adoption intentions

Marketing Intelligence & Planning
PurposeThe present study aims to examine the households’ attitudes and intentions to adopt an indoor air purifier against the smog crisis in India by using a comprehensive theoretical framework based on the combination of the Protective Action Decision Model (PADM) and the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB).
Pankaj Kumar, Pardeep Ahlawat, Mahender Yadav, Parveen Kumar, Vaibhav Aggarwal   +4 more
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Disentangling investor sentiment: Mood and household attitudes towards the economy

Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2018
Abstract In this paper, we disentangle investor sentiment into two components: mood and household attitudes towards the economy. We apply acoustical analysis to the daily top ten of music downloads in iTunes for Germany to derive a novel and direct measure for mood. We match this novel mood index with trading data of German individual investors.
Dimitrios Kostopoulos, Steffen Meyer
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Environmental attitudes and household consumption: an ambiguous relationship

International Journal of Sustainable Development, 2010
This article analyses the relationship between environmental attitudes and energy use in the home and for transport by Norwegian households. Quantitative surveys were used to find statistical correlations, and qualitative analyses to reveal mechanisms that influence the ability to behave in an environmentally friendly way. Three theses about attitudes,
Erling Holden, Kristin Linnerud
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Attitude–behavior consistency in household water consumption

The Social Science Journal, 2014
Abstract The purpose of this paper is to examine how environmental attitudes and concern about water scarcity translate into water conservation behavior. The study considers whether Oregonians environmental concern measured by the New Environmental Paradigm scale and sociodemographic characteristics influence personal water conservation activities ...
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