Mental Process
attitude Audio
at·ti·tude [ at-i-tood, -tyood ]
Definitions related to attitude:
  • (outlook) A habitual or characteristic mental attitude that determines how a person will interpret and respond to situations.
    NCI Thesaurus
    U.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
  • A mental position, feeling or emotion toward a fact or state.
    CRISP Thesaurus
    National Institutes of Health, 2006
  • An enduring, learned predisposition to behave in a consistent way toward a given class of objects, or a persistent mental and/or neural state of readiness to react to a certain class of objects, not as they are but as they are conceived to be.
    NLM Medical Subject Headings
    U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2021
  • Attitude, in social psychology, a cognition, often with some degree of aversion or attraction (emotional valence), that reflects the classification and evaluation of objects and events. While attitudes logically are hypothetical constructs (i.e., they are inferred but not objectively observable)...
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    Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc., 2020
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