| Title |
Environmental judgment in early childhood and its relationship with the understanding of the concept of living beings
|
|---|---|
| Published in |
SpringerPlus, March 2013
|
| DOI | 10.1186/2193-1801-2-87 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Jose Domingo Villarroel |
| Abstract |
The evidence collected concerning the biocentric judgment that young children express when evaluating human actions on the environment leads some scholars to suggest that an essential understanding of the notion of living beings should appear earlier than previously believed. This research project aims to study that assumption. To this end, young children's choice when they are put in situation of having to compare and choose the most negative option between environmentally harmful actions and the breaking of social conventions are examined. Afterwards, the results are categorized in relation to those obtained from the study of children's grasp of the distinction between living beings and inanimate entities. The data is analysed according to the individuals' age and overall, it suggests a lack of relationship between environmental judgment and the understanding of the concept of living beings. The final results are discussed in keeping with recent research in the field of moral development that underscores the role that unconscious emotional processing plays in the individual's normative judgment. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 8 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Spain | 2 | 25% |
| Argentina | 1 | 13% |
| Indonesia | 1 | 13% |
| United States | 1 | 13% |
| Unknown | 3 | 38% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 8 | 100% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 25 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Canada | 1 | 4% |
| Unknown | 24 | 96% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 3 | 12% |
| Student > Bachelor | 2 | 8% |
| Researcher | 2 | 8% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 2 | 8% |
| Professor > Associate Professor | 2 | 8% |
| Other | 5 | 20% |
| Unknown | 9 | 36% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Social Sciences | 5 | 20% |
| Environmental Science | 2 | 8% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 2 | 8% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 2 | 8% |
| Psychology | 2 | 8% |
| Other | 7 | 28% |
| Unknown | 5 | 20% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 20. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 08 June 2018.
All research outputs
#1,552,363
of 22,699,621 outputs
Outputs from SpringerPlus
#82
of 1,852 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#12,960
of 194,751 outputs
Outputs of similar age from SpringerPlus
#4
of 125 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 22,699,621 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 93rd percentile: it's in the top 10% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 1,852 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a little more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 5.7. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 95% of its peers.
Older research outputs will score higher simply because they've had more time to accumulate mentions. To account for age we can compare this Altmetric Attention Score to the 194,751 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 93% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 125 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 96% of its contemporaries.