Marieke J Schreuder, Evelien Schat, Arnout C Smit, Evelien Snippe, Eva Ceulemans
Monitoring emotional intensity and variability to forecast depression recurrence in real time in remitted adults
Journal of consulting and clinical psychology
genetic modification used create dairy cattle without horns increased resistance disease applications could beneficial animal welfare farm profits worker safety aim assess different stated purposes associated public attitudes toward two applications using mixed methods approach using online survey us participants randomly assigned one ten treatments 2 application hornless diseaseresistant x 5 purposes improved animal welfare reduced costs increased worker safety three purposes purpose factorial design participant asked read short description assigned treatment eg hornlessness improve calf welfare respond series questions designed assess attitude toward treatment using 7point likert scales 1 negative 7 positive responses 957 participants averaged creative attitude construct score participants also asked explain response treatment qualitative analysis text responses used identify themes associated participants reasoning participant attitudes favorable disease resistance hornlessness mean se attitude score 45 015 vs 37 014 diseaseresistance group participants positive attitudes toward genetic modification described purpose animal welfare versus reduction costs contrast 100 95 ci 012188 attitudes less favorable hornless application purpose provided versus stated purpose either improve animal welfare contrast 095 95 ci 026164 purposes provided contrast 088 95 ci 019158 similarly attitudes less positive stated purpose reduce costs versus either improving animal welfare contrast 086 95 ci 009164 purposes provided contrast 079 95 ci 002156 quantitative qualitative analysis indicated specific application perceived purpose particularly related animal welfare affect public attitudes toward genetic modification