attitude
a complex mental state involving beliefs and feelings and values and dispositions to act in certain ways
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Purpose and description
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.
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.
What it is for: Evaluative mental states.
It can be explain the concept; describe formation and change; support measurement questions; separate related concepts.
Distinguishing features
Object-directed
Evaluative
Measurable
Changeable
What it looks like
Not physical; a mental state.
How it is recognised
Evaluative disposition toward an object
Beliefs, feelings, values, action tendencies
Opinion is expressed judgment; mood is diffuse; personality trait is stable across objects
Related models
is a kind of - category
is related to - a motivational state
is related to - a social norm sometimes listed with attitudes
is related to - an epistemic attitude
In practice
Families and kinds
explicit and implicit attitudes
attitudes toward people and groups
political and social attitudes
consumer attitudes
attitudes in everyday speech such as a positive attitude
Standards and regulation
Psychometric standards for attitude scales
Research ethics for surveys
No regulation of the concept
Failure modes and hazards
Assuming attitudes predict behaviour directly
Biased survey wording
Confusing attitude with opinion or mood
Analytical facets
- substance
- information
- origin
- conceptual
- agency
- inert
- mobility
- not-applicable
- scale
- not-applicable
- affordances
- readable
Also called
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Where this came from
oewn:2024 · CC BY 4.0
Drafted structure
Bundle to layer to finding to question, as the second pass will find it: 4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions.
Understand What an attitude is.
Psychology.
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.
Practice.
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.
Research.
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.
Education.
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
What the second pass must settle
- Should implicit attitudes be a separate entry?
- How should measurement instruments be linked?
- How should research literature be linked?