Attitudes toward Potential Participant Registries

Attitudes of Iranians toward the Becker Proposition

This paper evaluates attitudes of Iranians toward crossing red traffic lights and their sensitivity to fines. Economic theory of crime under expected utility predicts that because of the possibility of severe punishments, risk adverse individuals would not cross red lights. This is implied by the Becker proposition. However, among 262 individuals surveyed, more than half of the sample has previ...

Attitudes toward emotions.

The present work outlines a theory of attitudes toward emotions, provides a measure of attitudes toward emotions, and then tests several predictions concerning relationships between attitudes toward specific emotions and emotional situation selection, emotional traits, emotional reactivity, and emotion regulation. The present conceptualization of individual differences in attitudes toward emoti...

Soviet Attitudes toward Authority

This book is a commercial reprint in England of a study originally published in the United States in 1951 by the Rand Corporation?a research organisation whose Social Sciences Division at that time supported several projects concerned with Soviet behaviour and resources. Among them was the one here reported on, of which Dr. Mead was the director, assisted by an inter-disciplinary team. Its purp...

Public Attitudes Toward Immigration

Immigrant populations in many developed democracies have grown rapidly, and so too has an extensive literature on natives’ attitudes toward immigration. This research has developed from two theoretical foundations, one grounded in political economy, the other in political psychology. These two literatures have developed largely in isolation from one another, yet the conclusions that emerge from...

Maori attitudes toward abortion.