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This paper discusses how analytic attitude can be applied to transference and counter-transference.

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"Schafer presents insights that reference action language in the clinical situation and provides examples of the analytic attitude. The analytic attitude allows for a space to be created in which something can emerge from the patient or analyst. The analytic attitude allows for analytic interpretation to take place in a non-judgmental free-floating non-directive and non-manipulative way. Unconscious material emerges as the unconscious relationship becomes the object of communication and analysis. Analytic attitude describes the technique that allows for the unconscious process to be reached..."

Tags:transference, analytic attitude, counter-transference

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This paper provides the foundation for a research inquiry process through which attractiveness is measured as corresponding to attitude. Specifically, this paper presents a literature review on whether attractiveness is perceived by an observer as correlating to an extraverted personality and extraverted behavior, and concludes with a proposed methodology for a test of assessment of attractiveness and personality.

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"Appearance is a powerful correlate affecting how a person is perceived by others, and there is significant data to suggest that persons who are viewed as having a more attractive physical appearance are perceived in a more positive manner than persons who are less attractive (Kniffen & Wilson, 2004). Assessment of appearance, however, is highly subjective and is believed to be influenced by a wide number of variables in the eyes of the perceiver; variables include a person's influences (Silver & Parente, 2004), environmental development (Kniffen & Wilson, 2004), race and..."

Tags:attitude, appearance, personality

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This paper explains what an attitude survey is and notes that a well-designed attitude survey commences with defining the purpose and objectives of the survey of the study. The paper also presents instructions for administering, scoring and interpreting the survey. The paper underscores the need to have a qualified individual interpret the data collected in an attitude survey so that a correlation is not shown automatically as a causation.

Table of Contents:
Introduction
Purpose of Survey
Preliminary Design Issues
Instructions for Administering, Scoring, and Interpreting Survey
Conclusion

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"Attitude surveys may be used administered in a number of different ways. One can use printed forms, e-mail, or electronic formats. Many survey questionnaires are self administered. Some attitude surveys can be completed anonymously and in the individual's spare time, whereas some environments, like schools, prefer a controlled environment. Either of these methods can be employed whether the survey is done online or paper based. Depending on the objective of the attitude survey, options exist with regard to data collection."

Tags:demographics, targets, implementation, formats, correlations

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To enter into another culture is to enter a world of beliefs and traditions that may be very different from those that shaped us. Our attitude toward that culture - Have we come willingly? Are we happy to be here? - and that culture's attitude to us - Are we welcome? - will go a long way towards ensuring a successful adaptation to that culture. But what exactly do social psychologists mean when they refer to attitude? And how is it measured? These are the points that will be addressed in this paper.

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This paper will discuss the influence of attitude on behavior in the scope of psychological studies. By showing how the attitude of a person can directly create a social influence on the behavior of the person, we can see how this may be achieved. This study will reveal four general factors that influence when people are or are not likely to behave in ways that are consistent with their attitudes. By understanding this relationship, the idea of social influence can be revealed in this form of psychological association.

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People react to discrimination in different ways. Some let it discourage them, some run away form it, and others hate it so much that they become bigots themselves. There are, however, positive ways of reacting to discrimination. Discrimination can motivate people to survive and become successful so that they can try to prevent it in the future. This paper explores works by Langston Hughes, Brent Staples, Richard Wright, and Alice Walker, authors of short stories concerning different African-American characters facing issues of race and discrimination. The paper shows that, by reading their stories, one gets a clear understanding that when faced with discrimination, it is best to keep a positive attitude rather than a negative one. In these stories, the characters that do keep a positive, more realistic attitude toward racial issues and discrimination tend to turn out more successful, mentally, than the characters that react to these issues negatively. Works analyzed include, "One Friday Morning" (Langston Hughes), "Black Men and Public Space" (Brent Staples), and "Everyday Use" by Alice Walker.

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"Brent Staples' reaction to discrimination and racial profiling is what gives him a better attitude and outcome. In "Black Men and Public Space," Staples discusses how he is a victim of these every day. Walking down the street at night, white people, especially women, would quickly walk away form his direction. In subways, white people would sit nervously as if waiting for him to attack. Even merchants in retail stores would give mean glares when he entered their store. Staples describes feeling "surprised, embarrassed and dismayed, all at once." This sort of environment could quickly erode a person's spirit. In his situation, most would become angry and resentful. Staples, however, realizes that he cannot allow this to happen."

Tags:Nancy, Lee, heritage

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The paper presents an attitude survey on the highly controversial subject of abortion. The paper outlines the design used as well as the administration, scoring and interpretation of this survey. The paper includes a copy of the abortion attitude survey at the end of the paper.

Outline:
Survey Design
Administration, Scoring and Interpretation
Conclusion

From the Paper
"The abortion survey was designed following the model of Rensis Likert who is the creator of the Likert scale. Surveys that follow this model are generally very easy to read, understand, and score. According to Mcleod (2008), "Likert developed the principle of measuring attitudes by asking people to respond to a series of statements about a topic, in terms of the extent to which they agree with them, and so tapping into the cognitive and affective components of attitudes" (para. 2). Although there are many different types of opinion based surveys to measure attitudes, the Likert scale allows room for people to not only agree or disagree, but also have no opinion about certain questions they are unsure about. The abortion survey allows an undecided answer in the case that a person taking the survey is unsure about a certain question posed. One negative aspect of the Likert scale is that since it allows room for people to state that they are unsure or have no opinion, there is also a possibility of people shifting their responses so as to not have their survey scores make them look bad. When creating a survey about abortion, the research showed that there are many arguments both for and against this particular issue and that made choosing survey questions very easy."

Tags:pro-life, pro-choice, opinions

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In this article, the writer notes that many critics have commented on Hamlet's seemingly strange and often overtly aggressive attitude towards characters like Ophelia. However, the writer maintains that understanding Hamlet's view of women requires a thorough understanding of the central themes of the play and cannot be seen in isolation from the larger issues that drive his actions. In essence, Hamlet's view of women is driven by the father's murder that is linked to his mother's untimely marriage to his Uncle. The writer discusses that the female characters in the play are, to a large extent, the driving force and the impetus behind the tragedy of the main character. The writer concludes that what should also not be forgotten is the underlying philosophical aspect and the view that the world is without meaning, which also influences Hamlet's view of women.

Outline:
Introduction
Gertrude and Ophelia
Conclusion

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"The play revolves around Hamlet's obsession with the murder of his father, and his desire and need for revenge. From Hamlet's perspective, Claudius has not only killed his father, the King, but has also usurped his throne and married his mother. The core of Hamlet's view of women is based on the view that his mother was somehow complicit in the murder or at least sexually willing to marry Claudius. This appalls and horrifies Hamlet at the deepest psychological and existential level and result in his " madness" and his behavior towards characters like Ophelia."

Tags:Ophelia, murder, revenge, betrayal, sensuality

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A comparison and contrast of the egoistic attitude with utilitarianism in this paper is revealing of the complexity of both approaches to ethical action, in that each is best considered a rubric or a category comprising a number of subsidiary positions. Thus for example ethical egoism has been cited as covering diverse approaches ranging from individual ethical egoism to universal ethical egoism. In this analysis, the paper shows that in order to present compare and contrast egoism and utilitarianism it is necessary to recognize both the complexity of each approach objections to each and the points at which the two approaches seem to overlap.

Tags:utilitarianism, egoism, ethics

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This paper highlights a couple of sections from the book "Dancing Skeletons" by Katherine A. Dettwyler. It uses them to look at the attitudes of the author towards the work she and others are doing, and how these sections reveal her own inner conflicts about her work.

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"This paragraph is very telling about the attitude of the author towards the people she is studying and her inability to help them in a meaningful way. She knows the children are getting schistosomiasis from going into the river and knows that because of the culture she cannot stop this, because the river is their way of life. In spite of..."

Tags:shcistosomiasis, CARE, Mali