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Deutsch: Einstellung / Español: Actitud / Português: Atitude / Français: Attitude / Italiano: Atteggiamento /

Attitude a key concept of social psychology refers to a favorable or unfavorable evaluative reaction toward something or someone, exhibited in one's beliefs, feelings, or intended behavior.

Attitudes are relatively enduring views on people, behaviour, or events.

Other definition:
An attitude describes a set of beliefs or views held about something and is defined in consumer psychology as an enduring inclination or tendency to respond to a brand or product in a specific way.
It consists of three related elements:

• knowledge,
• beliefs and
• associations

regarding the object; emotional attachment and a positive or negative evaluation; and behavioural intentions towards the object - purchasing intention, or willingness to become involved. Collecting expressed attitudes (whether by qualitative or quantitative means) has traditionally been a core activity within market research, since attitudes were assumed to be linked with actual behaviour and to be stable over time. Both these assumptions have been increasingly questioned.

Other /More definition:
Attitude refers to a learned tendency to respond to people, objects, or institutions in a positive or negative way; a favorable or unfavorable evaluative reaction toward something or someone, exhibited in one's beliefs, feelings, or intended behavior. Moreover, Attitude is a tendency to respond positively (favorably) or negatively (unfavorably) to certain persons, objects, or situations.

Other /More definition:
An attitude is a belief or feeling about people, objects, and ideas. Introversion and extraversion are two ways of interacting with the world or two attitudes toward the world.

Other /More definition:
To Allport, attitudes are similar to traits. However, attitudes have specific objects of reference and involve either positive or negative evaluations. To Cattell, attitudes are our interests in and emotions and behaviors toward some person, object, or event. This is a broader definition than typically used in psychology.

Other /More definition:
Attitudes are global evaluations toward some object or issue

Other /More definition:
An attidude is an evaluative reaction to people, issues, or objects.

Articles with 'Attitude' in the title

• Adaptive attitudes: Adaptive attitudes refers to the development of attitudes the same as the people we associate with
• Affectively based attitudes: Affectively based attitudes are based more on people's feelings and values than on beliefs about the nature of the attitude object, the heart over the head
• Ambivalent attitudes: Ambivalent attitudes refer to evaluations of targets that include both positive and negative elements
• Attitude accessibility: Attitude accessibility refers to the strength of the association between an object and a person's evaluation of that object- accessibility is measured by the speed with which people can report how they feel about an issue or object
• Attitude inoculation: The Attitude inoculation describes the exposing people to weak attacks upon their attitudes so that when stronger attacks come, they will have refutations available
• Attitude scale: Attitude scale: Attitude scale refers to a collection of attitudinal statements with which respondents indicate agreement or disagreement.
• Attitude Surveys Data: Attitude Surveys Data refers to a collection techniques designed to collect standard information from a large number of subjects concerning their attitudes or feelings
• Attitude-similarity: Attitude-similarity refers to the concept in psychology that suggests individuals are more likely to be attracted to, form relationships with, and trust those who share similar attitudes, beliefs, and values
• Attitude-similarity effect: Attitude-similarity effect when people find others more attractive and likeable the more similar they are in their attitudes, beliefs, and preferences
• Behaviorally based attitude: Behaviorally based attitude refers to an attitude based on observations of how one behaves toward an attitude object
• Central route to attitude change: Central route to attitude change: Central route to attitude change refers to the process that occurs when people are motivated and able to think carefully about a message
• Cognitively based attitude: Cognitively based attitude refers to an attitude based primarily on people's beliefs about the properties of an attitude object
• Death attitude: Death attitude is defined as a more or less settled way of being in the world, presenting oneself to the world, behaving, or acting that reflects some belief, opinion, or feeling related to death
• Destructive attitudes: Destructive attitudes refer to attitudes that can have a deleterious effect on the helping relationship, such as being critical, disapproving, disbelieving, scolding, threatening, discounting, ridiculing, punishing, sexist, prejudice, and . . .
• Dual attitudes: Dual attitudes refer to differing implicit (automatic) and explicit (consciously controlled) attitudes toward the same object. Verbalized explicit attitudes may change with education and persuasion- implicit attitudes change slowly, with . . .
• Dysfunctional attitudes: Dysfunctional attitudes refer to personal rules or Values people hold that interfere with adequate adjustment.
• Eating attitudes: Eating attitudes refers to a person’s belief that cultural standards for attractiveness, body image, and social acceptance are closely tied to the ability to control one’s diet and weight gain
• Ego-defensive attitudes: Ego-defensive attitudes when we adapt our attitudes so that they seem to confirm the decisions we have already made
• Emotional theories of attitude formation: Emotional theories of attitude formation: Emotional theories of Attitude formation refer to theories which assume that emotions are primary in the formation of attitudes and that attitudes arise independent of beliefs
• Explicit attitude: In the psychology context, an explicit attitude refers to the attitudes and beliefs that individuals are consciously aware of and can report or express directly
• Explicit attitudes: Explicit attitudes is defined as the consciously accessible attitudes that can be misrepresented by self-report- evaluations that people can report consciously controlled and conscious evaluative responses
• Implicit attitudes: Implicit attitudes refer to attitudes that are outside conscious Awareness and control. Implicit attitudes are automatic and non-conscious evaluative responses to a target which may occur without awareness
• Implicit Attitudes Measures: Implicit Attitudes Measures refer to tests that measure a person's attitudes, example, about race, without the person's Awareness of what is being measured
• Implicit Attitudes Test (IAT): Implicit Attitudes Test (IAT) : Implicit Attitudes Test (IAT ) refers to a method of measuring biological and psychological reaction time when a pair of values are presented
• Negative attitude change (Boomerang effect): Negative attitude change (Boomerang effect) means doing exactly the opposite of what one is being persuaded to do
• Peripheral route to attitude change: Peripheral route to attitude change refers to the process that occurs when people are either unmotivated or unable to think about the merits of a message
• Private attitude change: Private attitude change means altering one’s internal attitude
• Yale Attitude Change approach: Yale Attitude Change approach refers to the study of the conditions under which people are most likely to change their attitudes in response to persuasive messages- researchers in this tradition focus on "who said what to whom"-that is, . . .

Weblinks

• kriminal-lexikon.de: 'Einstellung' in the kriminal-lexikon.de (German)

Summary

Attitude in psychology refers to a learned tendency to evaluate things in a certain way, influencing feelings, thoughts, and behaviors towards an object, person, or situation. Attitudes are made up of cognitive, affective, and behavioral components, shaping how individuals perceive and interact with the world around them. These attitudes can be influenced by experiences, beliefs, values, and social factors, leading to variations in attitudes across individuals and cultures. Understanding attitudes is crucial for predicting and explaining behavioral intentions and actions in various contexts.

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