Attitude Change - The Competing Views

What are attitudes and how are they modified? The many opposing theories to answer this question reflects not only the complexity but also the importance of the field

List of contents

1: Models of Attitude Change: Theories That Pass in the Night; 2: The Concepts of Balance, Congruity, and Dissonance; 3: Symbolic Psycho-logic: A Model of Attitudinal Cognition; 4: Cognitive Dissonance: Five Years Later; 5: In Defense of Dissonance Theory: Reply to Chapanis and Chapanis; 6: A Reinforcement Learning Model of Persuasive Communication; 7: An Experimental Analysis of Self-persuasion; 8: Processes of Opinion Change; 9: An Uncertainty Model of Attitude Change

About the author

Anton Pelinka

Summary

What are attitudes and how are they modified? The many opposing theories to answer this question reflects not only the complexity but also the importance of the field

Product details

• Authors: Anton Suedfeld Pelinka, Peter Suedfeld
• Assisted by: Anton Pelinka (Editor), Peter Suedfeld (Editor), Suedfeld Peter (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.09.2017
• EAN: 9781138519015
• ISBN: 978-1-138-51901-5
• No. of pages: 266
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works; PSYCHOLOGY / General, Psychology