This article reports the findings of an experiment designed to evaluate the effect of four questionnaire formats on the willingness of drivers convicted of drunken driving to admit to this socially undesirable behaviour. Four samples of convicted drunk drivers each received a different version of a mail questionnaire about driving behaviour and attitudes. Two versions of the questionnaire inclu...

This study investigated the effects of message and social cues on selective exposure to political information in a social media environment. Based on the heuristic-systematic model, we hypothesized that readers’ selective consideration of specific cues can be explained by situational motivations. In an experiment (N= 137), subjects primed with motivational goals (accuracy, defense, or impressio...

In this study the structure of power in family and its effect on individual's social participation have been observed in the sample of overars old people of Shiraz with survey method. The frame work that used in this survey is a combined frame work. Thin theory used is Parsons social action theory and social participation is a social reaction. Individual's personality will be formed during aliz...

BACKGROUND Using appropriate coping strategies has a positive influence on moderating mental pressures caused by infertility and the stress during treatment. Using these strategies needs personal skills and they could be influenced by individual's inner psychological and environmental factors. The aim of this study was to assess the relationship between the attitude toward infertility and copin...

 As a social-psychological phenomenon, language learning involves several factors. The two significant factors that attracted scholars’ attention recently are ethnicity and social attitude toward L2. Taking in to account this issue, the present study sought to investigate the relationship between Gilak ethnic identity, social attitude toward foreign language, and L2 proficiency...

The purpose of this investigation was to explore the effect of maternal attitude toward dentistry on the dental status of the mothers and of their children. The study population was 65 mothers and 173 children from six kindergarten classes in a middle class community in Israel. The data recorded included caries prevalence (DMFT/S -deft/s), oral hygiene (OHI), and gingival health (GI). Each moth...

BACKGROUND The concept of Reconciliation as applied to inter-group conflict has come into use only recently. Throughout the history of Psychology, Reconciliation was mostly understood at the individual and inter-personal level. METHOD In the present study we shall analyse the roles played by trust, negotiating attitude, legitimacy and ethnocentric attitude over the attitude towards social rec...

Purpose: STEAM is the term given to a growing field of research and practice that integrates arts and social sciences into traditional sciences, technology, engineering, and mathematics subjects. The purpose of this study is to develop a STEAM-based educational learning package of social sciences textbooks and investigate its effect on attitude, problem-solving ability, and creativity of sixth-...

In this article, we provide a brief tutorial on the estimation, analysis, and simulation on attitude networks using the programming language R. We first discuss what a network is and subsequently show how one can estimate a regularized network on typical attitude data. For this, we use open-access data on the attitudes toward Barack Obama during the 2012 American presidential election. Second, ...