In a classic article published in the mid-1930s, Gordon Allport (1935) contended that the attitude concept was ‘the most distinctive and indispensable concept in contemporary social psychology’. While this confident assertion may perhaps be...

1. A predisposition to perceive, feel and behave towards specific objects or certain people in a particular manner. Attitudes are learned from experience, rather than innate characteristics, which suggests that they can be modified. Traits, which are...

Attitude "is probably the most distinctive and indispensable concept in contemporary American social psychology" (Allport 1985, p. 35). Hundreds of books and thousands of articles have been published on the topic. A review of this...

Attitude (psychology) Propositional attitude Attitude, a pose in ballet. Aircraft attitude Attitude control in the context of spacecraft means determining and maintaining proper orientation in space. Lifestyle and popular culture Attitude (rapper), an...

Gallup polling over the past three decades shows Republican front-runners usually win their party's nomination, but Democrats do not. Some elections:1972-DemocratsFebruary 1971: Edmund Muskie, 26 percent; Edward Kennedy, 25; Hubert Humphrey, 21; John Lindsay and George McGovern, each at 5.McGovern won the nomination and lost...

To boost your firm's recruiting efforts, start by asking questions that target your audience, say career development experts Chris Resto, Ian Ybarra and Ramit Sethi, authors of "Recruit or Die." Zero in on these action steps and questions: Check career paths. What are your recruits...

Pat Riley spent two days conducting end-of-season interviews with his Miami Heat players, all of whom apparently affirmed something he already knew. The Heat thought they could "turn it on" when the playoffs rolled around. And that way of thinking, more than anything else, was...

Russian attitudes are locked in the past, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Thursday, adding that the United States is perplexed by the current fracas with Russia over a planned U.S. missile system in Europe."We want a 21st Century partnership with Russia, but at times,...