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Women typically report greater concern for the environment, including climate change, than men. The eco-mom theory—the belief that women have greater environmental concern than men because mothers primarily care about the health and safety of their children, while fathers primarily care about the economic support of their household—is often proffered as an explanation for this difference. Researchers who have previously tested the eco-mom theory have narrowly operationalized parenthood; we are skeptical of this theory and believe it needs additional testing. We look at fertility in relation to concern for climate change using the 2010 General Social Survey. Modeling parenthood like previous studies, we find no differences in concern for climate change between women who have children and those who do not. Modeling fertility, we find that having more children is associated with less concern for climate change for women but not men. Additionally, we find no gender difference in concern for climate change for those with many children, but these findings are complicated by education. Overall, we refute the eco-mom theory and call for new climate change survey data that better capture gender roles and identity as well as more qualitative inquiries into public concern for climate change.

AbstractThe first known university food pantry started at Michigan State University in 1993. Since then, campus food pantries are more widespread, although little is known about them. The current study examined how college pantries best serve students and foster their success. Twenty‐eight food pantry directors and staff from across sixteen Michigan college campuses engaged in concept mapping, a technique used to examine the interrelationships among concepts understood by stakeholders. Analyses identified six concepts, examined importance of each concept as assigned by participants, and evaluated variation among institutions. Implications for findings and future research directions are discussed.

AbstractHappé and Loth (2002) describe word learning as a 'privileged domain' in the development of a theory of mind. We test this claim in a series of experiments based on the Sally‐Anne paradigm. Three‐ and 4‐year‐old children's ability to represent others' false beliefs was investigated in tasks that required the child either to predict the actions of a protagonist in a story or to learn the meaning of a new word used by the protagonist. Experiment 1 replicated previous findings of better performance in a false belief word‐learning task compared to a false belief action‐prediction task. However, systematic manipulation of the task parameters in Experiments 2 and 3 revealed that this performance discrepancy disappeared when tasks were equated in their 'referential pull' (Perner, Rendl & Garnham, 2007). We conclude that the notion of a precocious theory of mind for word learning is not required to explain dissociations in performance on false belief tasks.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Energy Matters / Ladd, Anthony E. -- 1. Natural Gas Fracking on Public Lands: The Trickle-down Impacts of Neoliberalism in Ohio's Utica Shale Region -- 2. This (Gas) Land Is Your (Truth) Land? Documentary Films and Cultural Fracturing in Prominent Shale Communities / Vasi, Ion Bogdan -- 3. Disturbing the Dead: Community Concerns over Fracking below a Cemetery in the Utica Shale Region / Price, Carmel E. / Maples, James N. -- 4. Mobilizing against Fracking: Marcellus Shale Protest in Pittsburgh / Staggenborg, Suzanne -- 5. Engines, Sentinels, and Objects: Assessing the Impacts of Unconventional Energy Development on Animals in the Marcellus Shale Region / Whitley, Cameron Thomas -- 6 Motivational Frame Disputes Surrounding Natural Gas Fracking in the Haynesville Shale / Ladd, Anthony E. -- 7. Denial, Disinformation, and Delay: Recreancy and Induced Seismicity in Oklahoma's Shale Plays / Mix, Tamara L. / Raynes, Dakota K. T. -- 8. Contested Colorado: Shifting Regulations and Public Responses to Unconventional Oil Production in the Niobrara Shale Region / Malin, Stephanie A. / Ryder, Stacia S. / Hall, Peter M. -- 9. Citizen Resistance to Oil Production and Acid Fracking in the Sunshine State / Widener, Patricia -- 10. Public Participation and Protest in the Siting of Liquefied Natural Gas Terminals in Oregon / Boudet, Hilary / Gaustad, Brittany / Tran, Trang -- Conclusion: Standing at the Energy Policy Crossroads / Ladd, Anthony E. -- Acknowledgments -- Notes on Contributors -- Index