"When we got people together last summer to study public attitudes toward nanotechnology, we found they were most interested in products they come into contact with," he said.

And so, as social scientists know from studying attitudes toward risk, some people will be scared away from planes into cars for their next trip.

But sociologists studying French attitudes say most French citizens, like many Europeans, are increasingly focused on local issues.

In perhaps no other field, scholars who study social attitudes toward language say, is unscientific folk belief so consistently enshrined in high-level policy.

It's interesting to study attitudes, to get people talking.

In clinical studies, the procedure was used to study attitudes of those diagnosed with eating disorders such as anorexia nervosa.

The AMP has been used to study attitudes towards political candidates and has proven useful in predicting voting behavior.

He likewise frequented places of public amusement, where he carefully studied the expressions and attitudes of the performers.

In a study testing the nature of ambivalent prejudice, Matsuo (2005) studied American attitudes toward immigrant groups.

Carol M. Swain, a professor of both political science and law at Vanderbilt University, has studied racial attitudes for more than a decade.