Two studies were conducted to examine the impact of subjective uncertainty on conformity to group norms in the attitude-behaviour context. In both studies, subjective uncertainty was manipulated using a deliberative mindset manipulation (McGregor, Zanna, Holmes, & Spencer, 2001). In Study 1 (N=106), participants were exposed to either an attitude-congruent or an attitude-incongruent in-group no...

Although some studies have demonstrated that the indirectly measured attitude towards alcohol is related to alcohol use, this relationship has not always been confirmed. In the current study, we attempted to shed light on this issue by investigating whether the predictive validity of an indirect attitude measure is dependent upon attitude accessibility. In a sample of 88 students, the picture-p...

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...

The accuracy of attitude determination plays a key role in the improvement of surveying and mapping accuracy for high-resolution remote-sensing satellites, and it is a bottleneck in large-scale satellite topographical mapping. As the on-board energy is constrained and the performance of an attitude-measurement device is limited, the attitude acquired is discretely sampled with a settled time in...

The paper explores the factors that affect employees’ attitude and behaviour towards knowledge sharing in Saudi Arabian organisations. A mixed methods approach was used to gather data through a survey and semi-structured interviews. Trust was found to have a negative relationship with knowledge sharing attitude while collaborative climate, management support, openness, and rewards were found to...

Existing position controllers for VTOL UAVs require measurements of the system attitude (orientation) for feedback. However, in practice the orientation cannot be measured directly; it is rather obtained through the use of an attitude observer relying on a set of inertial vector measurements. In this paper a new control strategy is proposed for VTOL-UAVs which avoids the direct measurement of t...

Attitude theory has long proposed a mechanism through which antecedents of message elaboration produce attitude strength consequences. However, little direct evidence exists for the intervening process. The proposed thoughtfulness heuristic holds that perceiving that more thought has taken place leads to greater attitude certainty. Two roles were established for this heuristic: first as a media...

This paper investigates previously unrecognized aspects of the interpretation of clausal arguments of propositional attitude predicates. It provides an account of them based on a newly identified modal operator in the lexical meaning of propositional attitude predicates, which applies to the context change in an attributed information state effected by the argument clause of the attitude predic...

This study was designed to find out secondary school students’ knowledge of and attitude towards HIV/AIDS in secondary schools in Nsukka Urban. The survey research design was used for the study. A sample of 300 senior secondary school students was used and the questionnaire was the only instrument used for data collection. The responses were analyzed using percentages and mean scores. The t-tes...

This paper proposes a dynamic analytical initialization method for spacecraft attitude estimators. In the proposed method, the desired attitude matrix is decomposed into two parts: one is the constant attitude matrix at the very start and the other encodes the attitude changes of the body frame from its initial state. The latter one can be calculated recursively using the gyroscope outputs and ...