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Attitude is a key concept in social psychology. In academic psychology parlance, attitudes are positive or negative views of an "attitude object": a person, behaviour, or event. Research has shown that people can also be "ambivalent" towards a target, meaning that they simultaneously possess a positive and a negative attitude towards it. There is also a great deal of new research emerging on "implicit" attitudes, which are essentially attitudes that people are not consciously aware of, but that can be revealed through sophisticated experiments using people's response times to stimuli (how quickly they can make judgments about them). Implicit and "explicit" attitudes (i.e. the ones people report when they consciously ask themselves how much they like a thing) both seem to affect people's behaviour, although in different ways. They tend not to be strongly associated with each other, although in some cases they are. The exact relationship between them is not currently well understood.
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Which field of psychology studies attitude change and group behavior?
social psychology
What has the author Alice Hendrickson Eagly written?
Alice Hendrickson Eagly has written: 'The psychology of attitudes' -- subject(s): Attitude (Psychology), Attitude change
What has the author Charles O Neidt written?
Charles O. Neidt has written: 'The covariation of achievement and attitude throughout a learning experience' -- subject(s): Academic achievement, Attitude (Psychology), Learning, Psychology of, Psychology of Learning, Television in higher education
10 scientific attitudes and their meaning related to psychology?
using real world example describe the scientific attitude of psychology
What has the author Arthur Josephus de Sopper written?
Arthur Josephus de Sopper has written: 'Vertrouwen' -- subject(s): Attitude (Psychology), Christianity, Faith, Religious aspects, Religious aspects of Attitude (Psychology), Trust in God
What has the author Marvin Nathan written?
Marvin Nathan has written: 'The attitude of the Jewish student in the colleges and universities towards his religion' -- subject(s): Attitude (Psychology), Jews, Judaism, Religious Psychology, Religious life, Religious thought, Students
What has the author Peter Dunn-Rankin written?
Peter Dunn-Rankin has written: 'Scaling methods' -- subject(s): Attitude, Attitude (Psychology), Methods, Personality assessment, Psychometrics, Scale analysis (Psychology), Scaling (Social sciences), Testing
What has the author Gorachand Kundu written?
Gorachand Kundu has written: 'A new technique of attitude measurement' -- subject(s): Attitude (Psychology), Testing, Psychometrics
What interact with each other and influence one's attitude and practice of sexuality?
Biology, psychology, and socialization interact to influence your attitude towards and practice of sexuality.
What has the author Meredith L Smith written?
Meredith L Smith has written: 'The formation of expectations about others' attitudes' -- subject(s): Expectation (Psychology), Attitude (Psychology)
What has the author Gene F Summers written?
Gene F. Summers has written: 'Attitude measurement' -- subject(s): Attitude (Psychology), Testing 'Community Economic Vitality'
What has the author George Albert Satter written?
George Albert Satter has written: 'Some dimensions of the religious attitudes of three-hundred engaged couples' -- subject(s): Attitude (Psychology), Psychology, Religious, Religious Psychology
