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Participants, then, completed several counterbalanced measures, including rating how much six different words (i.e., three positive and three negative) applied to fish, Willingness to Conserve questions about ocean conservation and fish-repopulation, their knowledge about non-native species, and a series of questions assessing their attitudes toward the marine environment, which consisted of seven different categories (i.e., naturalistic, moralistic, ecologistic, or humanistic, dominionistic, utilitarian, or negativistic). A 3 (Music) x 2 (Video) multivariate analysis of variance revealed a significant effect of video presentation on the combined dependent measure; an effect that was most pronounced on ratings of positive words in relation to fish. 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