Psychiatry and Psychology

Attitude

An enduring, learned predisposition to behave in a consistent way toward a given class of objects, or a persistent mental and/or neural state of readiness to react to a certain class of objects, not as they are but as they are conceived to be.

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Abstract

An enduring, learned predisposition to behave in a consistent way toward a given class of objects, or a persistent mental and/or neural state of readiness to react to a certain class of objects, not as they are but as they are conceived to be.

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5 entry terms
  • Attitudes
  • Opinions
  • Sentiment
  • Opinion
  • Sentiments

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1 allowable subheadings

Indexed with the subheadings ethnology.

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History Note

65(64); was see under BEHAVIOR 1963-64

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  1. F01.100w

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Attitude. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D001290. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D001290
  2. Attitude. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attitude_(psychology)
  3. Attitude. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q622645