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Pertaining to sound waves to which the ear responds.  

In research, judgment on the part of the audience of the credibility they are willing to grant the researchers for having made good judgments in the design and implementation of the study, esp. for aspects not directly described in the report.  

The process by which people attempt to explain another person’s behavior, relating it to situational factors or to some inferred dispositional qualities, or both.  

The explanation a person has for his or her behavior. Cognitions people use to explain why a person behaves a certain way.    

In epidemiology, quantifying the amount of risk due to a particular characteristic. It is calculated by subtracting the incidence rate for the group that does not have the characteristic from the rate for the group with the characteristic. A measure of the excess risk of disease due to exposure to a particular risk. The excess…

A condition, instrumentally, machine, or other agency, dangerous to young people because of their inability to appreciate its danger, although they may be expected to be attracted to it nuisance.  

The way or manner in which people positively or negatively evaluate others. A force that causes particles of matter to be drawn to each other.  

The progressive acquisition of attitudes beginning at birth, but continuing throughout life as learning situations are experienced and new insights are acquired.  

An evaluation of one’s attitudes; that is, beliefs, or predispositions to act or respond in some consistent way to an external stimulus.  

A device for measuring attitude toward any of a variety of objects.