Attitude and Attitude Change Toward Interaction as a Function of Participation Versus Observation

Openness to attitude change as a function of temporal perspective.

Three studies investigated the impact of temporal perspective on people's dominant social goals and explored the implications of these goals for openness to attitude change. Participants who perceived time as limited expressed social preferences in accordance with emotion-regulation goals (Study 1), were more prone to modify their attitude to bring it into line with the attitude of an anticipat...

Facilitating attitude change toward the handicapped.

Measurement in the shift of 424 normal children's perceptions of their handicapped peers was determined following their exposure to structured learning experiences of what it would be like to be handicapped. Attitude development and approaches used for attitude change are described. Significant positive shifts were found in children's perceptions of their handicapped peers' play capabilities, i...

Professional Interaction and Participation: the Role of Culture and Attitude

Whilst an integrated team effort is needed to provide increasingly complex solutions to our increasingly complex built environment needs, procurement in the UK, with it's linear transfer of information, appears to be culturally opposed to integrative processes. Interprofessional disharmony causes innovation in design to suffer. Calls for improvements in multi-disciplinary working are familiar. ...

Attitude Change

The ability to produce meaningful evaluations of the external world (i.e., attitudes) is critical for adaptive functioning. However, to be fully adaptive, such evaluations must be flexible enough to change when circumstances warrant. The psychological processes involved in attitude change have been the subject of intensive investigation for over 50 years. We review the major themes of this lite...

Consistency of performance change and autonomic response as a function of expressed attitude toward a specific stress situation.