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Social attitudes are individual or collective evaluations, beliefs, feelings, and behavioral tendencies toward social objects, issues, groups, or events that influence how people interpret and respond to their social environment. They represent relatively organized orientations that can guide judgments, preferences, and patterns of interaction, while also being shaped by communication, social influence, group membership, and cultural contexts ^[1]. Social attitudes are dynamic rather than fixed and may change through interpersonal interactions, information exchange, persuasion, and processes of conformity or influence within social networks ^[2]. In statistical and nonlinear physics approaches to social systems, attitudes can be represented as interacting states of individuals whose collective evolution may generate macroscopic phenomena such as consensus, polarization, clustering, or fragmentation ^[1][2]. The study of social attitudes therefore concerns both the psychological characteristics of individual evaluations and the collective dynamics through which attitudes emerge, spread, and transform within populations.