Sentences with phrase «social attitudes such»

Known for its use probing social attitudes such as racial prejudice, the IAT can also assess «cross-modal correspondences.»

The same difference in response holds true for making contributions to the local church, for participating in nonworship activities at a church, and for social attitudes such as upholding the traditional role of women, being dissatisfied with today «s moral climate and holding traditional and more restrictive sexual values.

Not exact matches

Seeing fellow entrepreneurs throw themselves wholeheartedly into such good causes gives me hope that people's attitudes about the social responsibilities of business really are changing.

While the very earliest stages might just call for an attitude adjustment, a bit later on physical interventions, such as more social interaction, might be more helpful.

Zakaria wasn't suggesting ceding Western values and beliefs — but rather recognizing that prevailing attitudes on such issues as the environment, human rights, and social affairs are different in many parts of Asia than those that hold sway in the West.

The author shows the significance of this attitude for such fields as ethics, social philosopohy, psychotherapy, and education.

Such views, Simon argued, are the reverse of the truth and tend to give moderns an instinctively hostile attitude toward the very notion of authority and a superficiality in their grasp of the profoundly central place authority occupies in a healthy social life.

How essential such an attitude has become is evident in light of the massive apostasies that occurred in the 1970s and «80s (and continue in Western Europe) when the social pressure in support of religion suddenly seemed to have lifted.

Such an attitude originates within the self; it is not derived from the force of inherited habits nor from people's tendency to yield to social pressure.

History may be able to clarify Jesus» attitudes on social and political questions such as war and revolution, the rights of women and the poor.

This question has profound implications for other issues such as attitudes toward mission and even approaches to social - political matters.

However, the extent of this change is significantly modified by a wide range of social and personal variables such as the functions that are being served for the individual by the attitudes in question; the satisfaction the individual derives from existing attitudes; the strength of existing defense mechanisms and group pressures surrounding those attitudes; patterns of reinforcement for similar attitudes in the past; other alternatives available to the viewer; and the current psychological state of the viewer.

(And today, on the brink of potential nuclear annihilation, such cynicism may even seem to be the most realistic attitude to take toward our social and political existence).

Lewis Mumford has served us well in drawing our attention to the way in which such architecture reflects vulgarity in social life, a lack of sensitivity in human awareness, a willful assertion of cheap attitudes, and contempt for those who must be exposed to such building and have their feelings offended and their taste degraded.

(While these traits may be confounded by parental attitudes, such findings are clearly inconsistent with the folk belief that cosleeping has detrimental long - term effects on psycho - social development.

As well as chapters on such things as: combining routines and feeding on demand, gentle parenting even when it is giving you the shits, managing the needs of a sleep - hating baby, etc., Nagle talks a lot about the problems she perceives with our current cultural and social attitudes towards breastfeeding and sleep.

Some barriers include the negative attitudes of women and their partners and family members, as well as health care professionals, toward breastfeeding, whereas the main reasons that women do not start or give up breastfeeding are reported to be poor family and social support, perceived milk insufficiency, breast problems, maternal or infant illness, and return to outside employment.2 Several strategies have been used to promote breastfeeding, such as setting standards for maternity services3, 4 (eg, the joint World Health Organization — United Nations Children's Fund [WHO - UNICEF] Baby Friendly Initiative), public education through media campaigns, and health professionals and peer - led initiatives to support individual mothers.5 — 9 Support from the infant's father through active participation in the breastfeeding decision, together with a positive attitude and knowledge about the benefits of breastfeeding, has been shown to have a strong influence on the initiation and duration of breastfeeding in observational studies, 2,10 but scientific evidence is not available as to whether training fathers to manage the most common lactation difficulties can enhance breastfeeding rates.

Although regression analyses indicated an IQ difference even after controlling for social class and the mother's education, the decision to breastfeed may reflect intellectual and other parental factors, such as parenting skills and positive health attitudes that may be responsible for the higher IQ scores.

The worse of it all is the attitude of indifference being exhibited by government, a social democratic government who is supposed to look after the welfare of the people will sit to be implicated in such a shameful enterprise by the opposition.

Particularly, the authors state, such training could help business students become more aware of their own views regarding corporate social responsibility and gain an understanding of how these attitudes might affect their perceptions of CSR's relevance in the workplace.

Levin also hopes insights gleaned from the model will help scientists grasp the origins of collective human behaviors, such as the emergence of social norms and attitudes about important issues.

Why do people have the attitudes they do toward social issues such as welfare, abortion, immigration, gay rights, school prayer, and capital punishment?

With such an ambitious attitude, it is easy to see why 29 - year - old Stephanie Miller became SELF Magazine's — and Condé Nast Publication's — first ever Social Media Editor.

Much of the research cited by the schools focuses on such objectives as improved discipline, campus climate, social attitudes, and community engagement.

The Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) tested 125,000 15 - year - olds in 52 countries and economies to analyse how well they work together as a group, their attitudes towards collaboration and the influence of factors such as gender, after - school activities and social background.

With the questionnaires we will be able to collect rich international data on important social skills and attitudes, such as adaptability, openness, respect, and civic engagement.

Recent Brazilian social policies such as the «Bolsa Familia», that seem to be based in a combination of critical thinking and attitudes of empathy and compassion, reduced poverty drastically and eliminated hunger in the country.

Yes, she would augment that system with better - educated (and compensated) teachers, a strong core curriculum, a different (curriculum - based) approach to assessment, greater emphasis on behavior and attitudes and a number of collateral «social» changes such as better families and home environments.

This meta - analysis of social and emotional learning interventions (including 213 school - based SEL programs and 270,000 students from rural, suburban and urban areas) showed that social and emotional learning interventions had the following effects on students ages 5 - 18: decreased emotional distress such as anxiety and depression, improved social and emotional skills (e.g., self - awareness, self - management, etc.), improved attitudes about self, others, and school (including higher academic motivation, stronger bonding with school and teachers, and more positive attitudes about school), improvement in prosocial school and classroom behavior (e.g., following classroom rules), decreased classroom misbehavior and aggression, and improved academic performance (e.g. standardized achievement test scores).

Opinion that the program had strong leadership which helped its successful implementation; Focus on meeting social, emotional, physical, and intellectual needs through the program; Details of the program, including its grouping of students from various age groups and use of hands - on experiences; Discussion of the impact the program had in various areas, such as students» self - esteem and attitudes about school and learning.

«The essence of the demand for freedom is the need of conditions which will enable an individual to make his own special contribution to a group interest, and to partake of its activities in such ways that social guidance shall be a matter of his own mental attitude, and not a mere authoritative dictation of his acts.»

Dispositions are guided by beliefs and attitudes related to values such as caring, fairness, honesty, responsibility, and social justice.

«Soft skills» is a term that covers a wide spectrum of attributes such as communication and social skills, attitudes, and emotional intelligence.

Opposing attitudes were found for two clusters: first, grouping practices (with educators of the gifted favoring ability grouping and middle school educators opposing such grouping) and second, social development (with only middle school educators seeing the «gifted» label as creating social adjustment problems).

In this qualitative study, drawing from social - ecological and critical theories, multiple factors, such as the ability - level and gender of the child, school policies, and the prevalent stigma surrounding disability are examined to understand how they interact to shape educators» attitudes and responses to violence.

Such an attitude would reflect a shallow understanding of what happens in the social studies classroom.

A 2016 report highlighted the evidence linking social and emotional skills, such as self - control, to school quality.71 Furthermore, a 2015 study found that students with parents who were highly satisfied with the school environment, including the school's disciplinary practices, had higher levels of perseverance and better attitudes toward school.72 As a result, research - validated culture - climate survey tools may serve as a proxy for students» social and emotional skills.

However, such teacher attitudes have never been analyzed on a broad scale, and many analyses of teacher effects focus solely on teachers» human capital, overlooking their social - psychological traits.

Science capital refers to the science - related resources that someone possesses, such as their attitudes and dispositions, knowledge, interests, behaviours and social contacts.

This meant that Arte Povera artists mined their particular social and historical moment to express something distinctly precise about the Italian condition through the use of installation, assemblage, and performance art, explaining why art historians have usually positioned them alongside artists working in the style known as Post Minimalism; American artists such as Keith Sonnier, Richard Serra, and Eva Hesse, and with artists in Europe included in the famous show When Attitudes Become Form (1969), such as Joseph Beuys, Yves Klein, and Hans Haacke.

«Hide / Seek» considers such themes as the role of sexual difference in depicting modern America; how artists explored the fluidity of sexuality and gender; how major themes in modern art — especially abstraction — were influenced by social marginalization; and how art reflected society's evolving and changing attitudes toward sexuality, desire, and romantic attachment.

To be sure, the humble crop still carries a social stigma, though such outmoded attitudes seem to be changing.

There's the usual tangle here of nature and nurture, the difficulty of holding which unresolved can tempt us to cut the knot with a Gordian «All [men][women] are... such and so,» and «All [white][black][brown][yellow][red] people are... such and so,» whether based in some essentialism or in the view that social attitudes and roles operate so broadly and effectively that the result is largely indistinguishable from that which would be produced by essential differences.

This is due largely to our climate, the fact that many of us have fair skin that isn't suited to such harsh conditions, our proximity to the equator and our social attitudes and love for the outdoors.

Data from the Pew Spring 2017 Global Attitudes Survey suggests that in Facebook's top 10 markets, some important countries, such as India and Indonesia, have less than 20 per cent of users relying on social media for news, whereas in countries such as Brazil, Turkey, US and Vietnam, that percentage is almost 40 or over.

In an interview with Sputnik China, Zhang Ning, a financial analyst at the Institute for Strategic Studies at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, has disputed such an attitude towards cryptocurrencies.

More than 2,000 workers and 225 human resource managers were surveyed on their opinions and attitudes around critical workplace topics such as recruitment, employee engagement, job satisfaction, retention, employee advocacy, social media use, generational differences and work / life balance.

Practical examples of how teachers and families can promote the learning of personal and social skills (such as helpful thinking, positive attitudes, recognising and managing emotional responses, seeking help, and making friends) in children are also provided.

It seeks to motivate behavioral change by addressing factors such as attitudes and beliefs (including self - efficacy), social skills (particularly refusal and negotiation skills), functional knowledge, social and media influences, peer norms and parent / child communication.

Up to 18 years later, students exposed to SEL in school continue to do better than their peers on a number of indicators: positive social behaviors and attitudes, skills such as empathy and teamwork, and academics.