I explore the possibility that propositional attitudes are not basic in folk psychology, and that what we really ascribe to people are relations to individuals, those that the apparently propositional contents of beliefs, desires, and other states concern. In particular, the relation between a state and the individuals that it tracks shows how ascription of propositional attitudes could grow ou...

Fast, automatic processing of texts posted on the Internet to find positive and negative attitudes towards products and companies gave sentiment analysis, an area of text mining, a significant application in predicting trends on stock markets. Opinion mining further extended the scope of the search to help companies, such as those specialising in media analysis, to automate extraction of people...

The present research proposes a metacognitive framework for understanding resistance to persuasion. It is suggested that when people resist persuasion, they can become more certain of their initial attitudes. Several experiments demonstrated that when participants resisted persuasion, attitude certainty increased, but only when the attack was believed to be strong. For attacks believed to be we...

BACKGROUND The controversial relation between societal knowledge and attitudes about epilepsy may affect the access of people with epilepsy to dental care. MATERIALS AND METHODS A questionnaire that evaluated knowledge about epilepsy, attitudes toward epilepsy and willingness to provide dental care to people with epilepsy was administered to all 288 dentists in the city of London, Ontario, Ca...

ness of linguistic form may influence self-perceived attitudes in at least two ways. Thus far we have advocated a self-perception process in which people (mis)attribute their use of essentialist linguistic formulations to the centrality of the relevant preference to their identity. A second mechanism is also possible in which the use of more or less abstract linguistic formulations influences t...

OBJECTIVE This study examined the long-term effect of an early prevention program on mothers' knowledge, attitudes, and practices with regard to their children's development. The prevention program focused on increasing the mothers' sensitivity to their children's needs and their awareness of the importance of their role in their children's early development. METHOD Fifty-five mothers and the...