Attitude: (1) Position of the body and limbs. (2) Manner of acting. (3) social or clinical psychology a relatively stable and enduring predisposition to behave or react in a certain way toward people, objects, institutions, or issues. [Mediev. L. aptitudo, fr. L. aptus, fit]
Source: Stedman's Medical Spellchecker, © 2006 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. All rights reserved.
Attitude: a mental position, feeling or emotion toward a fact or state.
Source: CRISP
Attitude: An enduring, learned predisposition to behave in a consistent way toward a given class of objects, or a persistent mental and/or neural state of readiness to react to a certain class of objects, not as they are but as they are conceived to be.
Source: MeSH 2007
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Source - MeSH 2007
Source - CRISP
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