89 college students' scores on an Attitudes about Reality scale delineating attitudes on a social constructionist-logical positivist spectrum were correlated with those on a questionnaire concerning opinions about nuclear war. Correlations indicated students more oriented toward the logical positivist attitude more strongly endorsed the ideas that medical help would be available after a nuclear attack (– .32), fallout shelters would increase survivability (– .35), nuclear weapons effectively deter war (– .19) and space weapons could defend against a nuclear attack (– .20). Students more oriented toward the social constructionist position were more likely to endorse a nuclear weapons freeze (– .20).
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