Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society

I motivate and articulate a dispositional account of aversiveracism. By conceptualizing and measuring attitudes in termsof their full distribution, rather than in terms of their mode ormean preference, my account of dispositional attitudes givesambivalent attitudes (qua attitude) the ability to predictaggregate behavior. This account can be distinguished fromother dispositional accounts of attitude by its ability tocharacterize ambivalent attitudes such as aversive racism atthe attitudinal rather than the sub-attitudinal level and itsdeeper appreciation of the analogy between traits andattitudes.