A comprehensive look at attitudes, beliefs and behavioural change, looking at not only biological underpinnings of attitudes but also how this fits in real world situations. This textbook gives an overview of theoretical and research perspectives in the field of attitudes and persuasion in a simple, user friendly way.
Authors: Gregory R. Maio, Bas Verplanken, Geoffrey Haddock
Categories: Psychology
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-10-27 - Publisher: SAGE
A comprehensive look at attitudes, beliefs and behavioural change, looking at not only biological underpinnings of attitudes but also how this fits in real world situations. This textbook gives an overview of theoretical and research perspectives in the field of attitudes and persuasion in a simple, user friendly way.
Authors: Joseph P. Forgas, Joel Cooper, William D. Crano
Categories: Psychology
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-01-07 - Publisher: Psychology Press
Human beings have a unique ability to create elaborate predispositions and evaluations based on their social experiences. The concept of attitudes is central to understanding how experience gives rise to these predispositions, and psychologists have spent the best part of the past 100 years trying to understand the intricacies of
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-12-18 - Publisher: SAGE
'An outstanding new text. Written in an engaging style it provides an impressive review of both basic and applied work. Classic studies are interwoven with important recent findings to provide a scholarly overview of this exciting area of social psychology' - Professor Mark Conner, University of Leeds 'Maio and Haddock
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-03-18 - Publisher: Psychology Press
Attitudes - cognitive representations of our evaluation of ourselves, other people, things, actions, events, ideas - and attitude change have been a central concern in social psychology since the discipline began. People can - and do - have attitudes on an infinite range of things but what are attitudes, how
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-07-21 - Publisher: Psychology Press
This volume assembles a distinguished group of international scholars whose chapters on classic and emerging issues in research on attitudes provide an excellent introduction for advanced undergraduates and graduate students. The book’s chapters cover all of the most critical features of attitude measurement, attitude development, and attitude change. Implicit and