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Written by two world-leading academics in the field of attitudes research, is a brand new textbook that gets to the very heart of this fascinating and far-reaching field. Greg Maio and Geoffrey Haddock describe how scientific methods have been used to better understand attitudes and how they change. With the aid of a few helpful metaphors, the text provides readers with a grasp of the fundamental concepts for understanding attitudes and an appreciation of the scientific challenges that lay ahead.
The Internal World
The Internal World
Questions to Ponder
- Do implicit measures assess our “true” attitudes?
- Are implicit measures better than explicit measures?
- Does nodding or shaking your head influence your attitudes?
- How do alcohol and caffeine consumption influence our attitudes?
- Are some attitudes heritable?
- Which regions of the brain are most strongly associated with attitude responses?
- Does our age affect our susceptibility to attitude change?
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We have called this chapter “The internal world”, because we wish to emphasize how, broadly speaking, factors within the individual can influence their attitudes. “Internal” has a variety of meanings in our context – be it something in our brain, an action we perform with our body, to something we consume in our body. In this chapter, we want to take you on a tour of some of ...
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