Attitude In Social Psychology

In the social psychological literature attitudes are learned i.e. evaluations of objects developed through experience. For example, it is generally agreed that humans are born without predetermined attitudes toward targets, except perhaps a few stimuli closely related to survival (e.g., aversions to pain and cold, attractions to breast milk and the human face). Instead, evaluations of the multitude of stimuli in our environments are formed over the years, on the basis of both personal experiences and information from others. (Olson, 1998)
An attitude is a subjective experience involving an evaluation of something or somebody. In psychology, an attitude refers to a set of emotions, beliefs and behaviors towards a particular object, person thing

We are conditioned or adjusted to a certain set of people, situations etc., we will be influenced by that. Hence, our associations lead to develop attitudes; negative reinforcement such as punishment may lead to develop negative attitudes. Modelling is another important means of attitude formation. People, try to emulate the person they admire, and this include accepting the attitudes held by these peoples as one's own. Researchers have discovered that people are more likely to behave according to their attitudes under certain conditions: When your attitudes are the result of personal experience, when you are an expert in the subject, when you expect a favorable outcome, when the attitudes are repeatedly expressed and when you stand to win or lose something due to the issue. (Cherry,

In twin studies which compare monozygotic twins with dizygotic twins and their extended families. The similarities in attitudes of monozygotic twins are greater than that of either dizygotic or ordinary siblings. It is also greater than that found between adopted children and either their biological parents (shared genes) or their adaptive parents (shared environment). much of the research done on identical twins have exactly the same genetic makeup while non-identical twins are more strongly related than attitudes of non-identical twins, this is some evidence that suggests that attitudes can be inherited. Indeed, findings show that there relationships are stronger for identical as big arties laying chess, roller coaster rides, abortion, the death penalty and the capitalism. Although diverse, these attitudes toward novelty, risk and political beliefs tend to be organized by political convertism. Political convertism also seems to be heritable. Bouchard, Segal Tellegen et al found that conservative social attitudes are shared more strongly by monozygotic and dizygotic twins and this study focused to twins reared apart. In this case, similarities in upbringing cannot account. This is not to say that genetics account for most or even most of our attitudes formation. On the contrary, evidence suggests that genetics effects are fairly small. Other factors do not strongly determine attitudes. However, in addition a