attitudinaladj.
/atɪˈtjuːdɪnəl/ Pertaining or relating to attitudes. spec. in Psychology.
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1831 P. Heidiger Didoniad i. 30 Which argued attitudinal instruction Beyond belief, in nauticals ashore.
1909 E. B. Titchener Lect. Exper. Psychol. Thought-processes v. 181 The different Aufgaben come to consciousness, in part, as different feels of the whole body... I find..that these attitudinal feels are touched off in all sorts of ways.
1909 E. B. Titchener Lect. Exper. Psychol. Thought-processes v. 248 We may not..infer that the attitudes and the attitudinal constituents of the thoughts..are vestigial derivatives of visual imagery.
1935 H. C. Warren Dict. Psychol. 24/1 Attitudinal (or attitude) test, a phrase applied somewhat broadly to numerous tests of non-intellectual mental traits.
1941 Jrnl. Social Psychol. 13 455 Inconsistency, both of the attitudinal and merely verbal sort, appeared often enough to demand some explanation.
1960 Language & Speech III. 223 (heading) Attitudinal meanings conveyed by intonation contours.
1962 A. C. Gimson Introd. Pronunc. Eng. x. 253 (heading) The Attitudinal Function of Intonation.
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