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Attitudes: Concepts, Functions, Formation, Types of Attitudes

Attitudes
Attitude refers to the individual judgments concerning objects, people or events. They refer to  favorable or unfavorable statements which reflects how an individual feels about a particular object, people or events. It can be stated as the collection of beliefs, feelings and behavioral intentions towards an object. Attitudes can be related to emotion but they differ as attitudes are judgmental whereas emotions are experienced. Thus, attitude can be described as a person’s learnt predisposition to respond towards objects, people or events which are specific and consistent.