Attitudes of 40 interns towards rational drug use (RDU) were assessed, using a standardized Likert type scale. The assessment was repeated after 4 months to evaluate the effect of usual working conditions of the hospital. After this period, the attitudes had slided towards negative side (p < 0.01). At this point, an intervention in the form of a workshop was provided for half the group while ot...

Pressed phonation ("rikimi" in Japanese) is a voice quality that carries important paralinguistic information of expressivity in the emotional or attitudinal states of the speaker. Analysis of pressed voice samples extracted from natural conversational speech firstly shows that irregularity in periodicity (such as in vocal fry and harsh voices) is a common but not a strictly determinant feature...

This study examined cognitive, academic, and attitudinal predictors of college grade point average (GPA) among college students with learning disabilities (LD). The study population included 84 youth who attended a large private university in the midwestern United States. Measures of cognitive and academic functioning, along with a self-report measure of study habits and study attitudes, were u...

Previous research shows inconsistent relationships between parent involvement and academic achievement and often asks why such inconsistencies occur. The research proposes a theoretical model that separates parent involvement into those practices linking parents to children and those practices linking parents to other adults in the school environment. The researcher hypothesizes that parent-chi...

The demand is a fundamental variable in economic analysis that measures the needs of goods and services of the consumers. This paper presents a new approach for representing the demand by using aggregation systems that consider the attitudinal character of the consumers and their beliefs regarding the degree of importance of the different variables that may affect them. Several developments are...

This paper analyzed the differences of China’s political stance and attitude in response to recent China-US trade war epidemic war, provoked by United States, through comparing distribution metaphors as attitudinal resources regular speeches relevant these two events on official website Ministry Foreign Affairs within framework conceptual metaphor evaluation theory. Through analysis metaphorica...

Medical ethics education remains an important venue of moral education. In spite of the intensity of these efforts, the desired outcomes of medical ethics education remain obscure, undefined and largely untested. In the first part of this study, the goals of medical ethics are operationalized along cognitive, behavioral and attitudinal dimensions. This includes a written moral judgment test, a ...

Dolores Albarracín and Wei Wang Department of Psychology University of Florida History presents abundant examples that people who strongly advocate and defend a given attitudinal position often change this position, becoming “converted” to points of view that are opposite to the ones they initially held. One reason for such changes is the degree to which individuals perceive that they can defen...