Altogether, the list will give us considerable variety in attitudes and some typical ones, for these critics range all the way from censors to those who consider art above ethics, all the way from Plato to Poe.

The students who are most willing to acquiesce in the suppression of civil liberties are also those who are most likely to be prejudiced against minority groups, to be conformist and traditionalistic in general social attitudes, and to lack a basic faith in people.

If goodness and badness lie in attitudes only and hence are brought into being by them, those men who greeted death and misery with childishly merry laughter are taking the only sensible line.

The satirical element of the pamphlet is often only understood after the reader notes the allusions made by Swift to the attitudes of landlords, such as the following: " I grant this food may be somewhat dear, and therefore very proper for Landlords, who as they have already devoured most of the Parents, seem to have the best Title to the Children.

A 2002 randomized controlled UK university study of 93 people with clinically confirmed idiopathic Parkinson's disease found that participants who received Alexander Technique lessons reported sustained improvements in their physical functioning, as well as reporting themselves to be less depressed and to have improved attitudes towards themselves.

David Holbrook, who has written three books about Thomas, stated in 1962, " the strangest feature of Dylan Thomas's notoriety-not that he is bogus, but that attitudes to poetry attached themselves to him which not only threaten the prestige, effectiveness and accessability to English poetry, but also destroyed his true voice and, at last, him.

The " discovery " of these alleged etymologies is often believed by those who circulate them to draw attention to racist attitudes embedded in ordinary discourse.

The name of George Fox is often invoked by traditionalist Friends who dislike modern liberal attitudes to the Society's Christian origins.

The abundant use and veneration historically accorded images in the Roman Catholic Church was a point of contention for Protestant reformers, who varied in their attitudes toward images.

Nehru observed that these attitudes and religious taboos were preventing India from going forward and adapting to modern conditions: “ No country or people who are slaves to dogma and dogmatic mentality can progress, and unhappily our country and people have become extraordinarily dogmatic and little-minded .” Therefore, he concurred, that religions and all that went with them must be severely limited before they ruined the country and its people.

The Romantic poets, essayists, artists and authors who employed these themes in their work were later associated with socially progressive attitudes towards sexuality, feminism, pacifism and similar issues.

* prayer is intended to inculcate certain attitudes in the one who prays, rather than to influence the recipient

It has been suggested that, while in many countries overt and explicit racism has become increasingly taboo, even in those who display egalitarian explicit attitudes, an implicit or aversive racism is still maintained subconsciously.

Historian Beau Riffenburgh states that the promise to Scott " should never ethically have been demanded ", and compares Scott's intransigence on this matter unfavourably with the generous attitudes of the Norwegian explorer Fridtjof Nansen, who gave freely of his advice and expertise to all, whether they were potential rivals or not.

Milgram developed a technique for measuring how helpful people are to strangers who are not present, and their attitudes toward various groups, called the " lost letter " experiment.

A person who stutters may project his or her attitudes onto others, believing that they think he or she is nervous or stupid.

In interviews, Speight explained he had originally based Alf on his father, an East End docker who was staunchly reactionary and held " unenlightened " attitudes toward black people.

A cross-national study in the United States, the Philippines, and Sweden found that those who believed that " homosexuals are born that way " held significantly more positive attitudes toward homosexuality than those who believed that " homosexuals choose to be that way " or " learn to be that way ".

After the overthrow of the corrupt Vulcan High Command and the death of Admiral Maxwell Forrest, who sacrificed his life to save Soval from a terrorist attack, the attitudes of Soval, and Vulcan society in general, became more cordial and accepting towards humanity.

Chomsky was not the first person to suggest that all languages had certain fundamental things in common ( he quotes philosophers writing several centuries ago who had the same basic idea ), but he helped to make the innateness theory respectable after a period dominated by more behaviorist attitudes towards language.

His obituary in the Sydney Gazette was unflattering, insisting that "... he was a thorough savage, not to be warped from the form and character that nature gave him ...", which reflected the feelings of some in Sydney's white society that Bennelong had abandoned his role as ambassador in his last years, and also reflects the deteriorating relations between the two groups as more and more land was cleared and fenced for farming, and the hardening attitudes of many colonists towards ' savages ' who were not willing to give up their country and become labourers and servants useful to the colonists.

Large-scale West Indian immigration over the last century has also decreased the number of Black Bermudians who are multi-racial, and hardened attitudes.

Mainstream British cinema also reflected a change in attitudes, with Heat and Dust ( 1982 ), Gandhi ( 1982 ) and Cry Freedom ( 1987 ), although these did not directly address the experiences of minorities in Britain.

A 2010 study of all adult twins in Sweden ( more than 7, 600 twins ) found that same-sex behavior was explained by both heritable factors and individual-specific environmental sources ( such as prenatal environment, experience with illness and trauma, as well as peer groups, and sexual experiences ), while influences of shared-environment variables such as familial environment and societal attitudes had a weaker, but significant effect.

A popular focus of the citizens ' attentions, she experiences their changeable attitudes, being first adored as an entertainer, then hated as a witch, before being lauded again for her dramatic rescue by Quasimodo.

McClellan's experiences during the war developed various attitudes that affected his later military and political life.

Amongst the members of a group, there is a state of interdependence, through which the behaviors, attitudes, opinions, and experiences of each member are collectively influenced by the other group members.

The ways samurai tactics and attitudes were affected directly by these experiences, and their extent, are of course difficult to ascertain, but were certainly significant.

There is evidence suggesting that the more the anterior cingulate cortex signals conflict, the more dissonance a person experiences and the more their attitudes may change.

In addition, the mature Stingo digresses at length, both on his attitudes as a youth ( occasionally including his journal entries, particularly after sexual experiences ) as well as on the broader issues involving the American South and the Holocaust.

Organizational commitment can be contrasted with other work-related attitudes, such as job satisfaction, defined as an employee's feelings about their job, and organizational identification, defined as the degree to which an employee experiences a ' sense of oneness ' with their organization.

Drivers ' and cyclists ' experiences of sharing the road: Incidents, attitudes and perceptions of visibility.

It explores how the different alliance experiences have influenced the attitudes and behavior of the present members of the enlarged NATO and the Partnership for Peace ( PfP ).

The eliminativist's claim with respect to qualia is that there is no unbiased evidence for such experiences when regarded as something more than propositional attitudes.

While in the past many state defense forces were organized as military police brigades or infantry brigades, the experiences of recent events such as Hurricane Katrina has changed attitudes and plans.

The challenge for the psychology of religion is essentially threefold: ( 1 ) to provide a thoroughgoing description of the objects of investigation, whether they be shared religious content ( e. g., a tradition's ritual observances ) or individual experiences, attitudes, or conduct ; ( 2 ) to account in psychological terms for the rise of such phenomena ; and ( 3 ) to clarify the outcomes — the fruits, as William James put it — of these phenomena, for individuals and for the larger society.

In exploring and studying the emerging field of gay, lesbian and bisexual seniors, non-heterosexual is a default term to demonstrate that the " vast majority " of literature assumes that older people are heterosexual and makes " no effort " to explore the experiences and attitudes of those who are not.

Most of his experiences and attitudes are attributed to Milholland himself.

Beyond the mere transfer of facts, knowledge visualization aims to further transfer insights, experiences, attitudes, values, expectations, perspectives, opinions, and predictions by using various complementary visualizations.

* 2001: The New York Times staff, " for its compelling and memorable series exploring racial experiences and attitudes across contemporary America.

The instrument has been used to measure attitudes toward, and knowledge of, near-death experiences in a college population, among clergy, among registered psychologists, and among hospice nurses.

Assessment of clergy knowledge and attitudes toward near-death experiences.

For example, Stacy Holman Jones ( 2005 ), in ( M ) othering loss: Telling adoption stories, telling performativity, talks about her own experiences with infertility and adoption as they are linked to cultural attitudes about transnational adoption, adoption, infertility, and how we talk about these issues at different moments in time.

Questionnaire questions also explore subjects ' occupational and educational plans and experiences, attitudes about gender roles, attitudes and experiences with people of a different race / ethnicity, trust in government and other institutions, concerns about the environment, media consumption, victimization and delinquency, among other things.