 Based on the definition of the word feel as cognition, Mayer and Frantz were correct in using this word in the measurement of a person's beliefs; however, they cannot accurately call the scale an affect-measuring one since the use of feel does not suggest an emotion.Nearly half of the items on the CNS involve no emotional content, while the rest contain that word feel, which in this context, really refers to cognition rather than an emotional state of being, according to Perrin and Benassi.Using data from their own studies, Perrin and Benassi “suggest that the CNS may be measuring a cognitive identity dimension of one’s relationship with nature,”.