Two studies tested whether children’s attitudinal ambivalence toward their parents is related to their attachment styles within relationships. Across both studies, children who were ambivalent toward their father were less securely attached in their relationships than were children who were nonambivalent toward their father. Study 1 also showed that the relation between attitudinal ambivalence ...

EDRS PRICE MF-$0.25 HC-$1.05 ATTITUDES, *BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE RESEARCH, *COLLEGE STUDENTS, CONFLICT, FEMALES, *INTERPERSONAL RELATIONSHIP, MALES, *STUDENT ATTITUDES, *STUDENT CHARACTERISTICS, STUDENTS THIS STUDY WAS DESIGNED TO TEST THE HYPOTHESIS THAT SUBJECTS WILL PREFER TO SIT NEARER TO AN AGREEING STRANGER THAN TO A DISAGREEING STRANGER. A SECOND PURPOSE WAS TO PROVIDE A BEHAVIORAL AND AN UNO...

Tbere is mucb to admire in Fred Feldman's Pleasure and the Good Life,^ and mucb witb wbicb to agree. It is a wondei-ful exploration of varieties of bedonism, and a demonstration of tbe plasticity of tbe very concept of bedonism. Feldman succeeds ably in arguing tbat most, if not all, of tbe traditional arguments against bedonism can be met by different versions of tbe tbeory, all of tbem versio...

The purpose of this paper was to demonstrate empirically that attitudinal loyalty and satisfaction are divergent concepts. The results of this paper indicate that attitudinal loyalty is satisfaction driven and that satisfaction and attitudinal loyalty are related but divergent concepts. However had the analysis relied exclusively on correlation or exploratory factor analysis the empirical resul...

...............................................................................................................................v Introduction..........................................................................................................................1 A History of Supreme Court Jurisprudence, Public Opinion, and the Death Penalty .........2 Public Opinion on the Death Penalty.........

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.

With the growth in sociality and interaction around touching national and international topics, news sites are increasingly becoming places for communities to discuss and address issues spurred by news articles. Proponents of cyberspace promise that online discourse will increase political participation and pave the road for a democratic utopia (Papacharissi, 2004). Comment writers, according t...

The conventional method of aggregating the satisfaction of transport projects with respect to multiple attributes is commonly some variant of Simple Additive Weighting (SAW), which involves the sum of products of standardized outcomes of projects with respect to attributes and attribute importance weights. It is suggested that alternative forms of aggregation might be more useful, in particular...

The present study was carried out with the purpose of examining the role of metaphorical language in the critical discourse analysis (CDA) of political texts based on the CDA framework and attitudinal model of appraisal theory. According to CDA, the categories of deception, power relations, manipulation, authority, legitimation, and ideology were considered in the analysis of the texts an...