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...

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...

In psychology, a mental position with regard to a fact or state. Attitudes reflect a tendency to classify objects and events and to react to them with some consistency. Attitudes are not directly observable but rather are inferred from the objective,...

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...