mentality

Preposition: of

people: You do wonder about the mentality of such people.

Converse of object

• adopt: We live in a debt-ridden society and must adopt a new mentality toward debt.
• foster: I would like to think we can foster this mentality, however, and would like to try with other course content.
• exhibit: While the GTA games are massively open-ended ( as well as just being massive ), Table Tennis exhibits a rather different mentality.
• understand: I understand the mentality from both sides of the aisle.
• win: I think perhaps that is because we have not got a winning mentality yet.
• encourage: These games are an enjoyable way to teach children how to use a spreadsheet, but they encourage a quick trading mentality.

Adjective modifier

• winning: John Terry believes he can take the winning mentality instilled in him by Jose Mourinho into the World.. .
• colonial: I couldn't care less myself - either about the colonial mentality or the non sequiturs it produces.
• corporate: I think it's more the corporate mentality of why mess with anything that could potentially be controversial in a messy way.
• scientific: As seen in Arguedas's work, coastal culture is rooted in a calculating, scientific, Western mentality.
• same: I think we have to play like we always do with the same mentality, " said the Dutchman.

Noun used with modifier

• siege: The Blue Falcon Inn showed the signs of the siege mentality that existed in the village.
• silo: No longer can any vestiges of the silo mentality be tolerated.
• bunker: This is why pundits are talking now of a ' bunker mentality ' inside Number Ten.
• mob: Media violence has been subjected to lynch mob mentality with almost any evidence used to prove guilt.
• herd: This is the herd mentality based on panic about the distant future.
• ghetto: We must discard our ghetto mentality and break down the barriers between them and us.