Previous studies have shown that speech perception can shift because of cognitive attitudes about the speaker, but little is known about affective attitudes in speech perception. In our study, we investigated how affective attitudes towards Asians relate to the perception of Asian-accented vowels by native Australian English listeners. Affective attitudes were assessed with an established scale...

The goal of the present study was to examine the relationship of social justice beliefs, gender, religiousness, and ethnicity on environmental attitudes among college students at a private university. Participants in the current research with higher scores on social justice measures also had higher scores on three environmental measures: attitudes toward the environment, conscientiousness about...

II N this country the problem of maintaining private welfare and medical |Services alongside their public counterParts no longer complicates patient 'S?re as it does in the United States. reed from this limitation, and in a 15 vourable social climate, new patterns ^ care for the mentally ill have f?urished in Britain. Confident in our 0vvn practice and encouraged by a ||tream of interested visi...

We utilise the well-developed quantum decision models known to the QI community to create a higher order social decision making model. A simple Agent Based Model (ABM) of a society of agents with changing attitudes towards a social issue is presented, where the private attitudes of individuals in the system are represented using a geometric structure inspired by quantum theory. We track the cha...

This paper presents the prosodic analysis of a corpus of Brazilian Portuguese attitudes. Attitudes are separated between the social and propositional categories, and performed either with an assertive or an interrogative modality. Previous studies show the particular relevance of prosodic cues for propositional attitudes, while visual cues are more relevant for social ones. This paper shows tha...

Nature of science is defined as one of the directions of scientific literacy. The main aim of this study was to investigate both secondary school social and science branch post-graduate (non-thesis master) teacher candidates attitudes about the Nature of Science (NOS) and compare their attitudes towards NOS. A 12-item Likert type scale for teacher candidates was used, based on responses of 207 ...

In the early years of the Social Security program, public support for old-age pensions was high but knowledge and understanding about benefits and taxes were low. Understanding has greatly increased, even though the program has expanded, and support for Social Security has remained high. Data from the surveys and polls examined in this article indicate that support for Social Security was stron...

Condom negotiation among young Black men who have sex with men in the Southern United States was explored using the theory of reasoned action. Fifty-four (18- to 29-year-old) males participated in nine focus group interviews. Discussions elicited condom use and negotiation attitudes, beliefs and social norms. Positive personal attitudes (respect of self, personal health concerns) and high negot...

The study examined the relationships between self-efficacy, work-family conflict, social support, gender role attitudes, role model and career aspirations to top management among women in middle management in the manufacturing sector. Data were gathered from 109 women in 8 companies using self-administered questionnaires. Self-efficacy, social support, gender role attitudes and role model were ...

BACKGROUND Similar to the general public, mental health professionals sometimes also have negative attitudes towards individuals with mental illness; which could ultimately affect the quality of care received by the patients. This study aims to explore attitudes to mental illness among mental health professionals in Singapore; make comparisons with the general population; and investigate the si...