neophenomenology

n. an approach to psychology that emphasizes the role of the individual’s phenomenological (immediate and conscious) experience in the determination of action. See personalistic psychology; phenomenology. [attributed to U.S. psychologists Donald Snygg (1904–1967) and Arthur W. Combs (1912–1999)]

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February 22nd 2025

conditioning of attitudes

the formation or change of an attitude as a result of the association of an attitude object with a pleasant or unpleasant stimulus in the environment. Attitudes may be conditioned via classical conditioning or operant conditioning processes.