Attitudes and Beliefs As Verbal Behavior

Mothers’ Child-rearing Attitudes and Verbal Behavior: a Comparative Study

1 This study was supported by the Baltic Sea Foundation in Sweden (grant No. 31103), by the RSS (group research grant No. 1417/1999), and by the Estonian Science Foundation (grant No. 4629). We would also like to thank the participants of our study. Address for correspondence: Luule Mizera, Department of Psychology, University of Tartu, Tiigi 78-336, 50410 Tartu, Estonia. E-mail: [email protected]...

External Variables, Beliefs, Attitudes and Information Technology Usage Behavior

The Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) predicts the user acceptance of end-user applications by specifying causal relationships among belief and attitudinal constructs that subsequently influence usage behavior. Although the perceived usefulness and perceived ease of use constructs have received a great deal of attention in MIS literature, very few follow-up studies have used the original TAM co...

Adult Attitudes and Beliefs

This article describes how adult attitudes toward play on the Hawaiian island of Lāna’i reflect the connection between play and culture. It is based on a study of ninety-two caregivers (parents, grandparents, and other adult custodians), primarily representing individuals of Filipino, part Hawaiian, and Japanese heritages. These respondents completed a survey about the value of play for their c...

Students as Judges of Teachers' Verbal and Nonverbal Behavior

ATTITUDES AND SOCIAL COGNITION Changing Beliefs and Behavior Through Experience-Taking

The present research introduces the concept of experience-taking—the imaginative process of spontaneously assuming the identity of a character in a narrative and simulating that character’s thoughts, emotions, behaviors, goals, and traits as if they were one’s own. Six studies investigated the degree to which particular psychological states and features of narratives cause individuals, without ...