Summary
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Key Readings
Over 75 years ago, Gordon Allport stated that the attitude construct is the heart of social psychology. Allport's sentiment remains true today - people's evaluations of themselves, other individuals, groups and social issues are the core of the discipline. This four-volume set brings together important papers on the psychology of attitudes to serve as the most fully comprehensive collection on the attitude concept.
Volume I: Attitude Content, Structure, Function and Measurement
Volume II: Implications for Information Processing and Behavior
Volume III: Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Processes That Shape Attitudes
Volume IV: Roles of Brain, Body and Society
Editors' Introduction: Psychology of Attitudes
We are all surrounded by things that we like and dislike. We may like some of the items we see on a menu, but dislike others; we may like some of the people we meet at work, and dislike others; we may grow fond of particular stories, movies, and music, while hating others with a passion. Similar likes and dislikes can be expressed for diverse objects, such as groups of people (e.g., religious or ethnic), individuals (e.g., a politician), behaviors (e.g., applying sun protection cream), and ideas (e.g., legalized abortion). In all of these cases, we are dealing with attitudes, and the empirical study of attitudes, attitude change, and their connections to behavior has gripped social psychologists for ...
Table of Contents
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Volume I: Attitude Content, Structure and Function
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What Are Attitudes?
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1. Attitudes: A New Look at an Old Concept
Mark Zanna | John Rempel
1988
The Social Psychology of Knowledge
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2. The Advantages of an Inclusive Definition of Attitude
Alice Eagly | Shelly Chaiken
2007
Social Cognition
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3. On the Automatic Activation of Attitudes
Russell Fazio | David Sanbonmatsu | Martha Powell | Frank Kardes
1986
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
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Timothy Wilson | Samuel Lindsey | Tonya Schooler
2000
Psychological Review
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Richard Petty | Pablo Briñol | Kenneth DeMarree
2007
Social Cognition
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6. Attitude Construction: Evaluation in Context
Norbert Schwarz
2007
Social Cognition
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The Witch of Attitude Content
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7. Empirical Validation of Affect, Behavior, and Cognition as Distinct Components of Attitude
Steven Breckler
1984
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
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8. Assessing the Structure of Prejudicial Attitudes: The Case of Attitudes toward Homosexuals
Geoffrey Haddock | Mark Zanna | Victoria Esses
1993
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
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9. Measuring the Affective and Cognitive Properties of Attitudes: Conceptual and Methodological Issues
Stephen Crites | Leandre Fabrigar | Richard Petty
1994
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
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The Witch of Attitude Structure
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10. Beyond Bipolar Conceptualizations and Measures: The Case of Attitudes and Evaluative Space
John Cacioppo | Wendi Gardner | Gary Berntson
1997
Personality and Social Psychology Review
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11. Positive and Negative Associations Underlying Ambivalent Attitudes
Yaël de Liver | Joop van der Pligt | Daniël Wigboldus
2007
Journal of Experimental Social Psychology
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The Witch of Attitude Function
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12. The Role of Attitude Objects in Attitude Functions
Sharon Shavitt
1990
Journal of Experimental Social Psychology
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13. Accessible Attitudes as Tools for Object Appraisal: Their Costs and Benefits
Russell Fazio
2000
Why We Evaluate: Functions of Attitudes
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Volume II: Attitude Measurement, Attitude Strength and Information Processing
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How Are Attitudes Measured?
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14. The Measurement of Attitudes
Jon Krosnick | Charles Judd | Bernd Wittenbrink
2005
The Handbook of Attitudes
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Russell Fazio | Joni Jackson | Bridget Dunton | Carol Williams
1995
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
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16. Measuring Individual Differences in Implicit Cognition: The Implicit Association Test
Anthony Greenwald | Debbie McGhee | Jordan Schwartz
1998
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
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Attitude Strength
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17. Exploring the Latent Structure of Strength-Related Attitude Attributes
Penny Visser | George Bizer | Jon Krosnick
2006
Advances in Experimental Social Psychology
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Attitudes and Information Processing
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Charles Lord | Lee Ross | Mark Lepper
1979
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
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David Roskos-Ewoldsen | Russell Fazio
1992
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
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20. Ambivalence and Persuasion: The Processing of Messages about Immigrant Groups
Gregory Maio | David Bell | Victoria Esses
1996
Journal of Experimental Social Psychology
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Volume III: Attitudes and Behavior
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When Do Attitudes Predict Behavior?
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21. Attitude-Behavior Relations: A Theoretical Analysis and Review of Empirical Research
Icek Ajzen | Martin Fishbein
1977
Psychological Bulletin
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22. Attitudes and the Prediction of Behavior: A Meta-Analysis of the Empirical Literature
Stephen Kraus
1995
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
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Russell Fazio | Carol Williams
1986
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
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Timothy Wilson | Dolores Kraft | Dana Dunn
1989
Journal of Experimental Social Psychology
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25. On the Nature of Attitude-Behavior Relations: The Strong Guide, the Weak Follow
Rob Holland | Bas Verplanken | Ad van Knippenberg
2002
European Journal of Social Psychology
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How Do Attitudes Predict Behavior?
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26. Efficacy of the Theory of Planned Behaviour: A Meta-Analytic Review
Christopher Armitage | Mark Conner
2001
British Journal of Social Psychology
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27. The Interplay between Goal Intentions and Implementation Intentions
Paschal Sheeran | Thomas Webb | Peter Gollwitzer
2005
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
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28. Implicit and Explicit Measures of Attitudes: The Perspective of the MODE Model
Michael Olson | Russell Fazio
2009
Attitudes: Insights from the New Implicit Measures
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29. Reflective and Impulsive Determinants of Social Behavior
Fritz Strack | Roland Deutsch
2004
Personality and Social Psychology Review
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Judith Ouellette | Wendy Wood
1998
Psychological Bulletin
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Volume IV: The Processes That Shape Attitudes
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Cognitive Processes That Shape Attitudes
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31. Personal Involvement as a Determinant of Argument-based Persuasion
Richard Petty | John Cacioppo | Rachel Goldman
1981
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
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32. The Elaboration Likelihood Model: Current Status and Controversies
Richard Petty | Duane Wegener
1999
Dual Process Theories in Social Psychology
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33. Heuristic and Systematic Information Processing within and beyond the Persuasion Context
Shelly Chaiken | Akiva Liberman | Alice Eagly
1989
Unintended Thought
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34. Self-Validation Processes: The Role of Thought Confidence in Persuasion
Pablo Briñol | Richard Petty
2004
Contemporary Perspectives on the Psychology of Attitudes
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Affective Processes That Shape Attitudes
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Norbert Schwarz | Gerald Clore
1983
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
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36. Subliminal Mere Exposure: Specific, General, and Diffuse Effects
Jennifer Monahan | Sheila Murphy | R. Zajonc
2000
Psychological Science
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37. Reducing Automatically Activated Racial Prejudice through Implicit Evaluative Conditioning
Michael Olson | Russell Fazio
2006
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
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Rajagopal Raghunathan | Yaacov Trope
2002
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
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Behavioral Processes That Shape Attitudes
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39. Cognitive Consequences of Forced Compliance
Leon Festinger | James Carlsmith
1959
The Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology
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40. Self-Perception: An Alternative Interpretation of Cognitive Dissonance Phenomena
Daryl Bem
1967
Psychological Review
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Shelly Chaiken | Mark Baldwin
1981
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
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42. Dissonance and Self-Perception: An Integrative View of Each Theory's Proper Domain of Application
Russell Fazio | Mark Zanna | Joel Cooper
1977
Journal of Experimental Social Psychology
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Higher-order Processes That Shape Attitudes
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43. Matching versus Mismatching Attitude Functions: Implications for Scrutiny of Persuasive Messages
Richard Petty | Duane Wegener
1998
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
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44. Beyond Vicary's Fantasies: The Impact of Subliminal Priming and Brand Choice
Johan Karremans | Wolfgang Stroebe | Jasper Claus
2006
Journal of Experimental Social Psychology
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45. The Role of Transportation in the Persuasiveness of Public Narratives
Melanie Green | Timothy Brock
2000
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
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Volume V: Internal and External Factors That Influence Attitudes
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The Implicit and the Explicit
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46. Discrepancies between Explicit and Implicit Self-Concepts: Consequences for Information Processing
Pablo Briñol | Richard Petty | S. Wheeler
2006
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
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Bertram Gawronski | Galen Bodenhausen
2006
Psychological Bulletin
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48. Understanding Implicit and Explicit Attitude Change: A Systems of Reasoning Analysis
Robert Rydell | Allen McConnell
2006
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
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The Body and Attitudes
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John Cacioppo | Joseph Priester | Gary Berntson
1993
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
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Kerry Kawakami | Curtis Phills | Jennifer Steele | John Dovidio
2007
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
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John Cacioppo | Richard Petty | Mary Losch | Hai Kim
1986
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
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52. Why Common Sense Goes Out the Window: Effects of Alcohol on Intentions to Use Condoms
Tara MacDonald | Mark Zanna | Geoffrey Fong
1996
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
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53. The Heritability of Attitudes: A Study of Twins
James Olson | Philip Vernon | Julie Harris | Kerry Jang
2001
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
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Social Cognitive Neuroscience and Attitudes
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54. Performance on Indirect Measures of Race Evaluation Predicts Amygdala Activation
Elizabeth Phelps | Kevin O'Connor | William Cunningham | E. Funayama | J. Gatenby | John Core | Mahzarin Banaji
2000
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
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55. Separable Neural Components in the Processing of Black and White Faces
William Cunningham | Marcia Johnson | Carol Raye | J. Catenby | John Gore | Mahzarin Banaji
2004
Psychological Science
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Matthew Lieberman | Kevin Ochsner | Daniel Gilbert | Daniel Schacter
2001
Psychological Science
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The Impact of Time on Attitudes
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57. Houses Built on Sand: Effects of Exemplar Stability on Susceptibility to Attitude Change
Charles Lord | René Paulson | Tiffiny Sia | Jennifer Thomas | Mark Lepper
2004
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
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58. Development of Attitude Strength over the Life Cycle: Surge and Decline
Penny Visser | Jon Krosnick
1998
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
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Personal and Normative Influences on Attitudes
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Joseph Priester | Richard Petty
2001
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
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60. Crafting Normative Messages to Protect the Environment
Robert Cialdini
2003
Current Directions in Psychological Science
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