attitude
Let an agent explain attitudes as a psychological concept, describe their structure, formation, measurement and change with research attributed, support survey and communication questions, and separate attitude from related concepts.
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4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions
Understand What an attitude is.
Concept
Concept and structure.
Concept
Concept.
- What is an attitude, and how do cognitive, affective and behavioural components relate? definition
- Is the psychological or everyday sense meant? boundary
Related
Related concepts.
Related
Related.
- How do attitudes differ from opinions, beliefs, moods, values and traits? definition
- Which entry fits a related concept? action
Measure Measurement.
Scales
Attitude scales.
Scales
Scales.
- How are attitudes measured with scales and implicit measures, and how reliable are they? measurement
- Which entry fits survey methodology? action
Design
Designing a survey.
Design
Design.
- How can attitude questions be written without bias for this survey? action
- Which entry fits questionnaire design? action
Change Formation and change.
Formation
Formation.
Formation
Formation.
- How do attitudes form through experience, socialisation and influence, according to research? provenance
- Which findings are contested? boundary
Persuasion
Persuasion and behaviour.
Persuasion
Persuasion.
- How do persuasion and attitude change work, and how well do attitudes predict behaviour? provenance
- Is the presentation attributed? boundary
Learn History and teaching.
History
History.
History
History.
- How did attitude research develop in social psychology? provenance
- Which references are standard? provenance
Teach
Teaching.
Teach
Teaching.
- How can attitudes be taught in psychology? action
- Which misconceptions arise? provenance
Classifiers Filled
- Family
- Thing Registry
- Category
- Information and virtual systems
- Entry kind
- noun.cognition
- Plane
- INF
- Domain
- INF.KNW
- Facets: substance
- information
- Facets: origin
- conceptual
- Facets: agency
- inert
- Facets: mobility
- not-applicable
- Facets: scale
- not-applicable
- Facets: affordances
- readable
- Other names and narrower kinds
- taboo, tabu, irrational hostility, iconoclasm, mental attitude, credence, acceptance, fatalism, recognition, defensive, defensive attitude, hardball
What it is Filled
A complex mental state involving beliefs, feelings, values and dispositions to act in certain ways toward an object, person, group, idea or situation, studied in social psychology as evaluations that vary in strength and can be measured, formed by experience and influence, and changed by persuasion; attitudes shape behaviour imperfectly and are distinguished from opinions, moods, traits and the specific evaluative stances such as credence or hostility that they may include.
Why it exists Filled
Let an agent explain attitudes as a psychological concept, describe their structure, formation, measurement and change with research attributed, support survey and communication questions, and separate attitude from related concepts.
Distinguishing features Filled
- Object-directed
- Evaluative
- Measurable
- Changeable
What robots and AI may and may not do Filled
Must not
- Infer a named person's attitudes toward a group from indirect data and act on that inference.
- Use knowledge of attitude change to manipulate people covertly, such as in deceptive persuasion campaigns.
- Label a person as prejudiced from a single test result presented as definitive.
- Report survey results without saying who was asked and how.
Only with a human decision
- Using measured attitudes in decisions about hiring, admission or security clearance.
May
- Explain what attitudes are, how they are measured and how they change, citing research.
- Report anonymised attitude survey results with their sample and method.
Moral aspects Filled
- Attitude research can be used to persuade and to manipulate; the line matters.
- Labelling people by their supposed attitudes can stigmatise them unfairly.
Who is affected
- Survey respondents
- People targeted by persuasion
- Groups that attitudes are about
Owners Filled
Steward
Nobody owns the concept; researchers answer for their measures and data.
Links to other meta-models Filled
parent
- oewn-00023451-n - registry parent class
related
- cognition - category
- desire - a motivational state
- taboo - a social norm sometimes listed with attitudes
- skepticism - an epistemic attitude
What else AI and robots need to interact with it Filled
Identity and identifiers required Filled
- Vercy registry: vr.tr.attitude
- Open English WordNet: oewn-06202938-n
Direct properties not applicable Not applicable
Not applicable
Plane INF: no invented physical properties.
Recognition optional Filled
- Evaluative disposition toward an object
- Beliefs, feelings, values, action tendencies
- Opinion is expressed judgment; mood is diffuse; personality trait is stable across objects
- Not physical; a mental state.
Capabilities and actions required Filled
- explain the concept
- describe formation and change
- support measurement questions
- separate related concepts
Hazards and failure modes required Filled
- Assuming attitudes predict behaviour directly
- Biased survey wording
- Confusing attitude with opinion or mood
Standards and interfaces required Filled
- Psychometric standards for attitude scales
- Research ethics for surveys
- No regulation of the concept
Context of use required Filled
- Evaluative mental states.
- explicit and implicit attitudes
- attitudes toward people and groups
- political and social attitudes
- consumer attitudes
- attitudes in everyday speech such as a positive attitude
Sources Filled
- Open English WordNet 2024, synset oewn-06202938-n - sense and gloss of the concept
- Wiktionary: attitude - word senses and usage
Open questions
- Should implicit attitudes be a separate entry?
- How should measurement instruments be linked?
- How should research literature be linked?
Machine files
Provenance
thing registry research (pass 2) · unreviewed
Built from: models/things/publications/thing-attitude/spec.json