Some psychological determinants of broad union attitudes

Some Effects of Insurance and of Labor Union Attitudes on the Practice and Teaching of Surgery **

I am glad to have an opportunity to discuss with surgeons some effects which insurance and labor unions have already had on the practice of surgery and some influences likely to be exerted in the future. I will touch briefly, later, on the impact from these sources on the teaching of surgery. Needless to say, since I am not a surgeon, I appreciate that some of you may have impressions quite dif...

Determinants of students’ attitudes toward people with physical-motor disability

Background and Aim: This study examined the role of social desirability, self-esteem, and some demographic variables in predicting students’ attitudes toward people with physical-motor disabilities. Procedure: The participants in this cross-sectional study were 300 students at Kurdistan University selected using convenience sampling. The students completed the items in the Google forms of the ...

Psychological determinants of influenza vaccination

BACKGROUND Previous studies investigated the determinants of individuals' decision to vaccinate against influenza primarily focusing on social as well as certain proximal determinants, for example, behavioral beliefs. Thus, so far, the analysis of psychological factors as determinants of influenza vaccination was mainly limited to beliefs, attitudes or perceptions that were directly related to ...

The Psychological Roots of Anti-Vaccination Attitudes

Some analyses of pro-attitudes

According to the pragmatic or functional conception of attitudes, we can say that John desires A iff John behaves such that he tends to bring it about that the actual world is an A-world, if his beliefs are true. This puts certain constraints on how to analyse desire attributions, but it leaves open a number of alternative analyses. Several alternatives will be discussed and compared in this pa...