F. Stephan Mayer
Oberlin College
10 Papers
49 Citations
F. Stephan Mayer is an academic researcher from Oberlin College. The author has contributed to research in topics: Attribution & Salience (language). The author has an hindex of 9, co-authored 10 publications.
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Papers
The connectedness to nature scale: A measure of individuals’ feeling in community with nature ☆
TL;DR: The connectedness to nature scale (CNS) as mentioned in this paper is a new measure of individuals' trait levels of feeling emotionally connected to the natural world, which has good psychometric properties, correlates with related variables, and is uncorrelated with potential confounds (verbal ability, social desirability).
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Why Is Nature Beneficial? The Role of Connectedness to Nature
TL;DR: For example, this article found that exposure to nature increased connectedness to nature, attentional capacity, positive emotions, and ability to reflect on a life problem; these effects are more dramatic for actual nature than for virtual nature.
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The importance of connection to nature in assessing environmental education programs
TL;DR: In this article, the authors reviewed the large body of research demonstrating that connectedness to nature is an important predictor of environmentally responsible behavior and concluded that promoting a sense of connection to nature should be a goal for environmental education programs, and should therefore be an important part of any assessment.
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The Emergency of Climate Change: Why Are We Failing to Take Action?
TL;DR: In this article, Latane and Darley developed a five-stage model to understand why people do and do not help other people in emergency situations, and extended their model to explore the factors that make climate change difficult to notice and ambiguous as an emergency.
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Personal Responsibility and Salience of the Request for Help: Determinants of the Relation Between Negative Affect and Helping Behavior
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the relation between negative affect and helping behavior and found that self-focus, as measured by the Stroop ColorWord Interference Test, was able to mediate these effects.