ambivalence

The ambivalence comes from the conflicts in cognitive and affective attitudes.

In short, people's reluctance can be traced to "noncognitive beliefs" (Morgan, Stephenson, Harrison, Afifi, & Long, 2008) and their experience of affective ambivalence (van den Berg, Manstead, van der Pligt, & Wigboldus, 2005).

NEW YORK -- GLAAD, the world's LGBT media advocacy organization, unveiled its second annual Accelerating Acceptance report, which reveals a startling level of complacency and ambivalence among Americans on LGBT issues.

However, after Scott (1968) proposed the ambivalence attitude theory, social psychologists started to regard positive and negative attitudes separately (Conner & Sparks, 2002), which has given a clearer and more comprehensive understanding of the target, and uncovered more effective solutions to social problems.

The truth is there is a huge amount of ambivalence toward this whole jihadist phenomenon -- more than any of us would like to believe -- in the Arab-Muslim world, Europe and America.

A new study published in Liver Transplantation, a journal of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society, found that ambivalence is common among donor candidates.

Despite Texas' prominent place in America's consciousness as a pro-gun state, Texans' attitudes toward gun control express the same ambivalence about gun regulation that was made apparent in the recent failure of the U.S.

Mumbai, July 14 (ANI): Hitting out at the Centre over Wednesday's serial blasts in Mumbai, senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Lal Krishna Advani today said the government must shed its ambivalence towards terrorism, and added that the repeated attacks on the financial capital of the country is not a failure of intelligence, but a failure of policy.

For many, ambivalence towards one's children causes serious guilt and anxiety.

Alchemy is a metaphor but its shifting meaning is the root of this exploration into ambivalence.

CONTEXT: Most studies on pregnancy ambivalence are based on data from women and depend on the women's perceptions To measure their partner's pregnancy intentions.

(15) Ambivalence exists; in other words, some things are such that an agent is disposed to have both positive and negative moral sentiments towards them upon careful reflection, i.e., ([there exists]x)([there exists]y)(Ay [conjunction] yPx [conjunction] yNx)