..."Attitudes," Gordon Allport defined attitude as a "mental and neural state of readiness to respond, organized through experience, exerting a directive...response to all objects and situations with which it is related."13 The key elements of this definition include: (a) mental and neural, (b) readiness to respond,...

...incidentally, recognized their debt to Gabriel Tarde—the psychologist Gordon W. Allport added in 1935: "A mental and neural state of readiness, organized...objects and situations with which it is related." 41 The structuring of American sociology was now under way. Between 1924 and 1932, Elton Mayo conducted...

...individual's manner of relating to both the nervous system and to experience. He defines "attitudes" as "A mental and neural state of readiness, organized...influence upon the individual's response to all objects or situations with which it is related" (Allport, 1935: 810; quoted from Kelvin, 1969: 41). 16. A study...

...selection in Indian context, it was deemed necessary to develop a standardized scale to measure the same. An attitude is a mental and neural state of readiness,...all objects and situations with which it is related (Allport, 1954). Shaw and Wright (1967) define attitude as— "relatively enduring system of evaluative,...

...the actual and potential responses of each person in the social world. An attitude, he concluded, was "a mental and neural state of readiness, organized...objects and situations with which it is related." Whatever disputes there were between the theoreticians of attitudes and the practitioners of attitude...

...unfavorably in a situation — viz. social motivation. Stated more explicitly, an attitude constitutes. . . "a mental and neural state of readiness, organized...individual's response to all objects and situations with whichit is related" (Allport, 1935). Katz (1960: 168) reports, "Attitude is the predisposition of the...

...more: an attitude was a 'mental and neural state of readiness, organised through experience, exerting a dynamic influence upon the individual's response to...all objects and situations with which it is related' (Allport, 1935). The social psychologists engaged in a multitude of investigations to chart these newly...

...more or less long term basis. And they are states that have effects. Attitudes have causal properties, 'exerting a directive or dynamic influence upon the...objects and situations with which it is related,' as Allport (1935: 810) puts it. It is quite possible to think of attitudes as simply a form of attribution...

...observable, that accounts for that consistency in the responses. "An attitude is a mental or neuronal state of readiness, organized through experience,...objects and situations with which it is related". By being "directed", it has also a favorable or unfavorable direction toward the object. This definition...

...psychologists' descriptions of attitude. "An attitude is a state of mind of the individual toward a value."1078 "An attitude is a mental and neural state of readiness organized through experience, exerting a dynamic direct influence upon the individual's response to all objects and s1tuations with which it...