In many situations, people are unsure in their moral judgments. much recent philosophical literature, this kind of doubt has been analysed terms uncertainty one’s beliefs. Non-cognitivists, however, argue that judgments express a conative attitude, more akin to desire than belief. This paper presents scientifically informed reconciliation non-cognitivism and doubt. The central claim is attitudi...

This study examines the interactive effects of background factors and personality/attitudinal and perceived environmental dimensions on adolescent drug behavior. Data were collected during home interviews using a structured interview schedule. The sample consisted of 403 British West Indian black, American black, and white adolescents, ranging in age from 13 to 17. Results suggested that two pr...

The mother lode of criminal responsibility scholarship is a unitary theory of criminal excuses, that is, a persuasive normative account of why the criminal law adjudges actors to be blameless despite their having engaged in prohibited conduct. The law’s other criminal defenses do not readily lend themselves to unitary normative accounts or, if they do, they rest on normative accounts that are s...

Many recent experiments have used parallel Implicit Association Test (IAT) and selfreport measures of attitudes. These measures are sometimes strongly correlated. However, many of these studies find apparent dissociations in the form of (a) weak correlations between the two types of measures, (b) separation of their means on scales that should coincide if they assess the same construct, or (c) ...

The role of prosody in conveying affective meaning is complex. The complexity is reflected to some extent in the many labels used to describe ‘ways of speaking’ that could generally be described as affectively coloured. The search for prosodic correlates of emotional speech, however, is more successful for some labels than for others. I argue that some labels refer not to the affective prosody ...

A research framework based on the theory of planned behavior (Ajzen 1985) and the diffusion of innovations theory (Rogers 1983) was used to identify the attitudinal, social and perceived behavioral control factors that would influence the adoption of Internet banking. An online questionnaire was designed on the World Wide Web (WWW). Respondents participated through extensive personalized email ...

The candidacy of Donald Trump has drawn considerable social science interest as a way to understand the interplay between attitudinal explanations, covariates, and momentum. In particular, arguments about the working class, personality, race, populism and Trump’s domination of the media serve as competing (but not mutually exclusive) explanations for Trump’s electoral success. In this paper we ...

BACKGROUND Service providers' attitudes towards recovery can improve with formal training. However, it is unclear whether improvements depend on dispositional hope. AIMS To determine whether attitudinal improvements following formal recovery training vary depending on participants' dispositional hope. METHOD One hundred and three providers attended formal recovery training and completed mea...