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Informationen zum Autor Russell H. Fazio received his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1978. He is currently the Harold E. Burtt Professor of Psychology at Ohio State University. Fazio’s program of research focuses upon attitudes, their formation, accessibility from memory, functional value, and the processes by which they influence attention, judgment, and behavior. He served as editor of the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology from 1999 to 2003. He has received numerous honors, including the APA Early Career Award (1983) and the Thomas M. Ostrom Award for Outstanding Contributions to Social Cognition (2006). Richard E. Petty received his B.A. (with high distinction) from the University of Virginia in 1973, and his Ph.D. in social psychology from Ohio State University in 1977. He is currently Distinguished University Professor of Psychology at Ohio State University. Petty’s work focuses on attitudes, persuasion, and social cognition. He is former editor of the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin and author of seven books and over 200 journal articles and chapters. He has received various honors including the Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award from the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (2001) and the Society for Consumer Psychology (2000). Klappentext The study of likes and dislikes - what social psychologists refer to as attitudes - has been a central focus of the field for decades. What are attitudes? How can we study and measure them scientifically? How are they formed and changed? Of what functional value! if any! are they? How do they come to influence our attention! perception! judgments! and behavior? These are among the questions that have spurred social psychological research on attitudes! and they are among the issues addressed in this volume.The articles reprinted in this collection represent noteworthy developments in the field's understanding of attitudes. Together! the readings provide a representative and broad coverage of the literature! illustrating well what the field has come to learn about the structure! function! and consequences of attitudes. Zusammenfassung The articles reprinted in this collection represent noteworthy developments in the field’s understanding of attitudes. Together, the readings provide a representative and broad coverage of the literature, illustrating well what the field has come to learn about the structure, function, and consequences of attitudes. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part 1: Conceptualizing Attitudes . Zanna,Rempel, Attitudes: A New Look at an Old Concept. Fazio, Sanbonmatsu,Powell, Kardes, On the Automatic Activation of Attitudes. Part 2: Measurement of Attitudes . Thurstone, Attitudes can be Measured. Schwarz, Self-Reports: How the Questions Shape the Answers. Cacioppo, Petty, Losch, Kim, Electromyographic Activity over Facial Muscle Regions can Differentiate the Valence and Intensity of Affective Reactions. Fazio,Jackson, Dunton, Williams, Variability in Automatic Activation as an Unobtrusive Measure of Racial Attitudes: A Bona Fide Pipeline? Greenwald, McGhee, Schwartz, Measuring Individual Differences in Implicit Cognition: The Implicit Association Test. Part 3: Affective, Cognitive, and Behavioral Bases of Attitudes . Fishbein, An Investigation of the Relationships between Beliefs about an Object and the Attitude toward that Object. Zajonc, Feeling and Thinking: Preferences Need No Inferences. Chaiken,Baldwin, Affective-Cognitive Consistency and the Effect of Salient Behavioral Information on the Self-Perception of Attitudes. Haddock, Zanna, Esses, Assessing the Structure of Prejudicial Attitudes: The Case of Attitudes toward Homosexuals. Newby-Clark, McGregor, Zanna, Thinking and Caring about Cognitive Inconsistency: When and for Whom does Attitudinal Ambivalence Feel Uncomfortabl...
