Abstract On Bicchieri's view, social norms most centrally involve a pattern of preferences among the members relevant population; according to Brennan, Eriksson, Goodin, and Southwood, patterns normative attitudes given group. This paper argues, first, that can require as well behaviour, and, second, existence such attitudinal speaks in favour preference-based view against attitudes-based view.

The Implicit Association Test (IAT) was designed to measure automatically activated attitudinal associations, free of the influence of processes that affect their expression. Subsequent research has shown that IAT performance also is influenced by non-associative processes, but the extent to which these non-associative processes are content-specific or if they operate similarly regardless of th...

For many anthropomorphic representations on computer interfaces, there are choices of using mediacaptured human components and using computer-synthesized humanoid counterparts. This applies to pair the face and the voice of a talking-head character. It is not uncommon that designers mismatch the face and the voice of a talking head in the human vs. humanoid dimension. Based on the literatures o...

This study explores the sources of influence in a successful outsourcing partnership based on a behavioral-attitudinal theory of IS success. Six major partnership-related variables were identified from the literature in terms of social exchange theory, which has been mainly applied to the study of outsourcing partnerships. A causal model of outsourcing success was proposed in which three attitu...

BACKGROUND The severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) crisis of 2003 provided a new urgency in China in terms of preparing public health staff to respond effectively to public health emergencies. Although the Chinese Government has already carried out a series of emergency education and training programmes to improve public health staff's capability of emergency preparedness, it remains uncle...

A number of attitudinal expressions are identified and analyzed using dependency based syntactic analysis. A claim is made that attitudinal loading of lexical items is dynamic rather than lexical and that attitudinal loading of individual lexical items is acquired through their use in attitudinally loaded structures.

This paper describes experiments to use non-terminological information to find attitudinal expressions in written English text. The experiments are based on an analysis of text with respect to not only the vocabulary of content terms present in it (which most other approaches use as a basis for analysis) but also with respect to presence of structural features of the text represented by constru...