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... attitudes that explain their ill feelings toward each other Social Identity Theory (Tajfel and Turner, 1979) - based on one’s desire to think highly of his/her group playing up its qualities and denigrating the attributes of those outside it (“us” vs. “them”) ...
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... Harris were expecting to find. Since this is not what they obtained, values of s less than one must be tried. A good fit to the original results was obtained with s = .6. The right half of Figure 2 shows this case, where it can be seen that though the prior distribution is the same and the likelihoo ...
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Attitude (psychology)

In psychology, an attitude is an expression of favor or disfavor toward a person, place, thing, or event (the attitude object). Prominent psychologist Gordon Allport once described attitudes ""the most distinctive and indispensable concept in contemporary social psychology."" Attitude can be formed from a person's past and present. Key topics in the study of attitudes include attitude measurement, attitude change, consumer behavior, and attitude-behavior relationships.
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