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A graph theory model of the semantic structure of attitudes

Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 1993
The semantic structure underlying the attitudes of pretreatment and posttreatment drug addicts was modeled using a network analysis of free word associations. Measures of graph theoretic properties were used to assess structural differences in the associative networks of the two populations.
G, Bovasso, L, Szalay, V, Biase, M, Stanford   +3 more
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Life-cycle optimization of structural systems based on cumulative prospect theory: Effects of the reference point and risk attitudes

Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 2022
Abstract Reliability-, risk-, and utility-based life-cycle maintenance is a normative approach for rational decision-making regarding structural systems under uncertainty. However, since these indicators cannot reflect the preference of stakeholders, the obtained plans may not be optimal from their standpoints.
Minghui Cheng, Dan M. Frangopol
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Contradictory Or Complementary? Reassessment Of Two Competing Theories Of The Structure Of Attitudes

Multivariate Behavioral Research, 1982
The theories of Kerlinger and Eysenck on the nature of the dimensions underlying social attitudes are discussed. Integrating principles from both theories, an alternative approach to the issue is suggested and tested on the domain of attitudes towards education in relation to personality.
M, Birenbaum, I, Zak
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Commentary on Kerlinger's Structural Theory of Social Attitudes

Psychological Reports, 1969
Kerlinger's structural theory of attitudes is analyzed, and some of the implications of the theory are examined. Initially, Kerlinger's use of the available data to extend the theory to the realm of social attitudes is questioned. His use of the same pool of items with different subject populations is especially criticized.
S. M. Zdep, G. L. Marco
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Racial Attitudes of Children: Perspectives on the Structural-Normative Theory of Prejudice

Phylon (1960-), 1980
T HE NORMATIVE THEORY of racial prejudice holds that such prejudice is a function of the norms of society. In describing this theory, Westiel has stated: "Prejudice is built into the culture in the form of normative precepts that is, notions of 'ought to be' which define the ways in which members of the group ought to behave in relation to members of ...
J. Kenneth Morland, Ellen Suthers
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The structure of attitudes to a single object: Adapting Criterial Referents Theory to measure attitudes to ‘woman’

British Journal of Social Psychology, 1992
Kerlinger's (1984) Criterial Referents Theory (CRT) is a theory of the structure of political attitudes to many objects. We modify and develop the theory to provide an account of the structure of attitudes to a single object—the social category ‘woman’. A three‐level hierarchical structure was proposed, spanning from
Mandy Smith, Iain Walker
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The structure of social attitudes in three countries: Tests of a criterial referent theory(1)

International Journal of Psychology, 1976
A criterial referents theory of attitudes was tested cross‐culturally by administering a social attitude referents (single words and short phrases) summated‐rating scale, suitably “transformed”, to 500 graduate students of education in the United States, 470 mature students of psychology in Spain, and 270 students of the social sciences and a ...
Fred N. Kerlinger, Cees P. Middendorp, Jesús Amón   +2 more
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Love American Style: A Test of Role Structure Theory on Changes in Attitudes Toward Love

Human Relations, 1978
A series of four investigations was completed to validate a new love scale and assess the relationship between stage of life and romantic and conjugal love attitudes. Collegeand highschool-educated samples were compared overfour stages of life. The data support a proposed functional linkage between role structure and love attitudes.
Brenda Munro, Gerald R. Adams
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Analysis Of Covariance Structure Tests Of A Criterial Referents Theory Of Attitudes

Multivariate Behavioral Research, 1980
To test a criterial referents theory of social attitudes, data obtained in the 1960's and 1970's from factor analyses of social attitudes scales administered to students in the U. S. and Europe and to a random sample of Dutch citizens were reanalyzed using an analysis of covariance structure approach. The two-factor model of the basic hypothesis of the
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Gender, Ethnicity, and the Structure of Self-Esteem: An Attitude Theory Approach

The Journal of Social Psychology, 1993
Consistent with attitude theory, self-esteem was considered in this study to be an attitude toward self, with component self-beliefs that associate or dissociate self with a desired or undesired attribute. It was hypothesized that the structure of self-beliefs underlying self-esteem is different across ethnic and gender boundaries.
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