Attitude Formation Quotes

Social psychology has, as a rule, dealt with various phases of social experience from the psychological standpoint of individual experience.

Many people help construct our attitudes at a certain time and place.

First we make our attitudes. Then our attitudes make us.

My theory was that what I had to do was make a study of human behavior.

No very sharp line can be drawn between social psychology and individual psychology.

Psychology, not economics, holds down public support for freer trade.

People think of us as an information distributor because that's how they relate to the Internet. But most of the time people already have pretty well established opinions.

What you see is what you make. What you see in a people is what you eventually create in them.

When reasons are weak, attitudes stiffen.

Attitude is greatly shaped by influence and association.

One of the depressing things one realizes as one gets older is how much of one's tastes and attitudes are simply products of economic circumstance at the time.

Your beliefs shape your attitudes!

Games have a huge impact on our society because the media plays a role in helping to shape our attitudes. So it's not just fantasy.

Collateral learning in the way of formation of enduring attitudes, of likes and dislikes, may be and often is much more important than the spelling lesson or lesson in geography or history that is learned.

Men's fundamental attitudes toward the world are fixed by the scope and qualities of the activities in which they partake.

Pessimists are born, true, but they also can be made.

I've always been interested in social psychology and why certain groups of people do things while others don't.

The most characteristic concern of rhetoric [is] the manipulation of men's beliefs for political ends....the basic function of rhetoric [is] the use of words by human agents to form attitudes or to induce actions in other human agents.

It's hard to know exactly how people develop the characters they do. There could be people from humble beginnings that turn into jerks. Some characteristics are just part of that special soul of that human being.

Attitudes are caught, not taught.

Your attitude is an expression of your values, beliefs and expectations.

Behavior shapes beliefs.

Your first encounter of the day has a more direct bearing on your attitude for that day than your next five encounters.

As we have seen there is some kind of continuity in any case since every experience affects for better or worse the attitudes which help decide the quality of further experiences, by setting up certain preference and aversion, and making it easier or harder to act for this or that end.