There is considerable controversy about how to conceptualize implicit and explicit attitudes, reflecting substantial speculation about the mechanisms involved in implicit and explicit attitude formation and change. To investigate this issue, the current work examines the processes by which new attitudes are formed and changed and how these attitudes predict behavior. Five experiments support a ...

In their 1974 study, Hendrick and Seyfried found that experimental group subjects given an attitude change treatment (reading a persuasive essay) were more attracted to a stimulus stranger who espoused their posttreatment attitudes than to a stimulus stranger who espoused their pretreatment attitudes. Control subjects, however, remained more attracted to a stimulus stranger espousing their pret...

Problem. For patients, falls can cause physical injury, psychological consequences, prolong hospital stays, and increase the cost of treatment. Therefore, in order to ensure best possible prevention patient falls, it is important update nurse‘s knowledge form a positive attitude towards falls.
 Aim. To compare change nurses‘ attitudes about fall before after delivery training material.&#x0...