Handbook of Psychology, Volume 5, Personality and Social Psychology

CHAPTER 13 Attitudes in Social Behavior JAMES M. OLSON AND GREGORY R. MAIO 299 WHAT ATTITUDES ARE AND WHAT ATTITUDES ARE NOT 299 ...

300 Attitudes in Social Behavior groups of people (e.g., ethnic groups), controversial issues (e.g., legalized abortion), and co ...

Structure of Attitudes 301 Nonetheless, such measures do not utilize the three- component model as rigorously as do measures tha ...

302 Attitudes in Social Behavior Measurement The expectancy-value model prescribes a method for measuring attitudes: Participant ...

Structure of Attitudes 303 1995), and (c) affect is more closely related to the importance attached to social values (Maio & ...

304 Attitudes in Social Behavior respondents to indicate some beliefs and emotions that are positive and some beliefs and emotio ...

Attitude Functions 305 To overcome this problem, various techniques have been developed. For example, the bogus pipeline procedu ...

306 Attitudes in Social Behavior Two early theoretical statements are the best-known mod- els of attitude function (D. Katz, 196 ...

Attitudes and Higher-Order Constructs 307 homosexual persons, persons with HIV, African Americans; Herek, 2000; Reeder & Pry ...

308 Attitudes in Social Behavior change is the selected route to imbalance reduction, Heider did not indicate whether the attitu ...

Characteristics of Attitudes 309 direct effect occurs when people perceive the value itself as relevant to their attitude (Maio ...

310 Attitudes in Social Behavior consistency), or (c) the favorability implied by the individual’s behavioral experience with th ...

Attitude Formation 311 Bassili (1996) proposed a distinction between “operative” and “meta-attitudinal” measures of attitude str ...

312 Attitudes in Social Behavior toward the object. For example, an abstract painting that ini- tially evokes confusion might co ...

Attitudes and Information Processing 313 compatible with their highly heritable attitudes. Tesser (1993; Tesser & Crelia, 19 ...

314 Attitudes in Social Behavior accessibility. Specifically, attitudes tended to interfere with participants’ ability to percei ...

Attitudes and Behavior 315 since that time, researchers have identified several factors that influence attitude-behavior consist ...

316 Attitudes in Social Behavior behavioral control extends the model to behavior that is not fully under volitional control; fo ...

Attitudes and Behavior 317 situational demands. Kardes, Sanbonmatsu, Voss, and Fazio (1986) found that the attitudes of low self ...

318 Attitudes in Social Behavior (see Tyler & Smith, 1998). Family and close relationships (see the chapter by Clark & G ...