User:Rslindse/Attitude

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Attitude can have a profound effect on a person's behavior. According to Swiss psychoanalyst and psychiatrist Carl Jung, there are several types of attitudes that can be understood.

Factors
A person's attitude can be determined by psychological factors like ideas, values, beliefs, perception, etc. All these have a complex role in determining a person's attitude. Changing circumstances is another factor that is believed to contribute to attitude.

Definitions
Several researchers agree that attitude can be described as a settled and unchanging way of thinking, feeling, or observing people, places, events, or objects.

Opposing viewpoints
There are a multiple opposing viewpoints to Carl Jung's definition of attitude. Carl Jung believed that there were eight functions of attitude, and two attitude types: introversion and extroversion.

Theory of planned behavior
The theory of planned behavior suggests that behaviors are primarily influenced by the attitude and other intentions. The theory of planned behavior was proposed by Icek Ajzen in 1985 through his article "From intentions to actions: A theory of planned behavior." The theory was developed from the theory of reasoned action, which was proposed by Martin Fishbein together with Icek Ajzen in 1975. The theory of reasoned action was in turn grounded in various theories of attitude such as learning theories, expectancy-value theories, consistency theories, and attribution theory. According to the theory of reasoned action, if people evaluate the suggested behavior as positive (attitude), and if they think their significant others want them to perform the behavior (subjective norm), this results in a higher intention (motivation) and they are more likely to do so. A high correlation of attitudes and subjective norms to behavioral intention, and subsequently to behavior, has been confirmed in many studies. The theory of planned behavior contains the same component as the theory of reasoned action, but adds the component of perceived behavioral control to account for barriers outside one's own control.

Article Changes After Peer Reviews
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I will add more citations to the article, because the original article only has one citation for each section. I created a citation and section for the Theory of planned behavior. I will complete this when I can find more up-to date information on those sub-topics.

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