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Abstract
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In order to study the influence of education upon the college student's attitude toward war, Thurstone's Attitude Toward War Test, Form A, was administered to freshmen and seniors in college and seniors in high school in the same community. While there was a consistent trend from high school seniors to college seniors toward a more pacifistic attitude, the differences between the average scores of the three groups were too small in every case to be statistically reliable. The average scores of all the various groups studied, with the exception of younger college senior girls, fell in the category designated as "mildly pacifistic." Of the three groups studied, the college seniors were the most homogeneous group. Education did not appear to modify war attitudes in any very marked fashion. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved)
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