Changing Attitudes by Changing BehaviorPrinciples of Social Form

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[Music] all right let's move on to a new chapter let's talk about attitudes so how might we Define attitudes let's start with an intuitive definition you might think to yourself an attitude is simply the way that you feel about something and that's a good start but let's try to formalize that an attitude is essentially a positive Nega negative or mixed reaction to some person object or idea one way that I like to see it is simply in evaluative reaction we're talking about likes dislikes and keep in mind attitudes don't always have to be about material things so for example we have attitudes about you know maybe religion or attitudes about marriage various attitudes about something like abortion or Sports let's focus for a second on this part of the definition the fact that attit udes can be comprised of positive reactions negative reactions or even a mix between positive and negative reactions in other words attitudes can get relatively complicated so here's a good way to to think abou