Title: Attitude (psychology) - Wikipedia
Headings: Attitude (psychology)
Attitude (psychology)
Contents
Definitions
Social psychology
Jung's definition
Factors
Psychological
Family
Society
Economic
Structure
Attitude component model
MODE model
Function
Value-Expressive
Formation
Change
Emotion and attitude change
Components of emotion appeals
Attitude-behavior relationship
Theory of reasoned action
Theory of planned behavior
Motivation and Opportunity as Determinants (MODE)
Measurement
Explicit
Implicit
See also
References
Further reading

Content: By this I mean a peculiarity of thinking and feeling which is the antithesis of abstraction". Factors
Psychological
The attitude of a person is determined by psychological factors like ideas, values, beliefs, perception, etc. All these have a complex role in determining a person's attitude. Values are ideals, guiding principles in one's life, or overarching goals that people strive to obtain (Maio & Olson, 1998). Beliefs are cognitions about the world—subjective probabilities that an object has a particular attribute or that an action will lead to a particular outcome (Fishbein & Ajzen, 1975). Beliefs can be patently and unequivocally false. For example, surveys show that a third of U.S. adults think that vaccines cause autism, despite the preponderance of scientific research to the contrary (Dixon et al., 2015). It was found that beliefs like these are tenaciously held and highly resistant to change. Another important factor that affects attitude is symbolic interactionism, these are rife with powerful symbols and charged with affect which can lead to a selective perception.