Attitude - Research News and Information

Thursday, January 08, 2009

Correlates of resilience in the face of adversity for Korean women immigrating to the US.

29 Sep 2008 OBJECTIVES: To explore the association between resilience and psychosocial variables of theoretical relevance such as self-esteem, optimism, religiousness, cultural interdependency, and belief in higher education in a population of elderly Korean ... Read more...

A new look at the consequences of attitude certainty: the amplification hypothesis.

29 Sep 2008 It is well established that increasing attitude certainty makes attitudes more resistant to attack and more predictive of behavior. This finding has been interpreted as indicating that attitude certainty crystallizes attitudes, making them more ... Read more...

Cooperation in social dilemmas: free riding may be thwarted by second-order reward rather than by punishment.

29 Sep 2008 Cooperation among nonrelatives can be puzzling because cooperation often involves incurring costs to confer benefits on unrelated others. Punishment of noncooperators can sustain otherwise fragile cooperation, but the provision of punishment ... Read more...

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Latest indexed articles for 'Attitude'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• A piece of my mind. Babies having babies. 13 Oct 2008
• Designer babies: choosing our children's genes. 9 Oct 2008
• Social science. Do voter surveys underestimate the impact of racial bias? 8 Oct 2008
• A piece of my mind. Saturday. 6 Oct 2008
• Correlates of resilience in the face of adversity for Korean women immigrating to the US. 29 Sep 2008
• A new look at the consequences of attitude certainty: the amplification hypothesis. 29 Sep 2008
• Cooperation in social dilemmas: free riding may be thwarted by second-order reward rather than by punishment. 29 Sep 2008
• A test of the extended intergroup contact hypothesis: the mediating role of intergroup anxiety, perceived ingroup and outgroup norms, and inclusion of the outgroup in the self. 29 Sep 2008
• Let your preference be your guide? Preferences and choices are more tightly linked for North Americans than for Indians. 29 Sep 2008
• When do the stigmatized stigmatize? The ironic effects of being accountable to (perceived) majority group prejudice-expression norms. 29 Sep 2008
• "How long will I suffer?" versus "How long will you suffer?" A self-other effect in affective forecasting. 29 Sep 2008
• Seeing race and seeming racist? Evaluating strategic colorblindness in social interaction. 29 Sep 2008
• Me, myself, and us: salient self-threats and relational connections. 29 Sep 2008
• Lay theory of race affects and moderates Asian Americans' responses toward American culture. 29 Sep 2008
• A piece of my mind. The physician in winter. 29 Sep 2008
• A survey to determine public opinion about the ethics and governance of farm animal welfare. 29 Sep 2008
• [Nursing a child with passion, anxiety and hope] 29 Sep 2008
• [Joy of nursing research] 29 Sep 2008
• Political attitudes vary with physiological traits. 17 Sep 2008
• Psychosocial profiles after transplantation: a 24-month follow-up of heart, lung, liver, kidney and allogeneic bone-marrow patients. 13 Sep 2008

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Technical information about 'Attitude'

Definition: An enduring, learned predisposition to behave in a consistent way toward a given class of objects, or a persistent mental and/or neural state of readiness to react to a certain class of objects, not as they are but as they are conceived to be.

Descriptor UI: D001290

Alternative terms: Attitude; Attitudes;

Related Mesh Headings: Public Opinion; Set (Psychology); Intention;

Allowable Qualifiers: ethnology;

Tree Number: F01.100;

History Note: 65(64); was see under BEHAVIOR 1963-64