Development of attitudes
A specific attitude develops as (1) a percept of an identifiable, distinctive object is formed and (2) a consistent emotional orientation is adopted with respect to this object. If this happens because of the relative intensity of the child’s emotions. Just as the little boy, at the Oedipus complex stage, may express the wish that his father would die, so he may demand the extermination of all Negroes, or capitalists, or Germans, when he adopts a nostile attitude to any such group