The Psychology of Attitudes and Attitude Change
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SAGE Journal Articles
SAGE Journal Articles provides further readings recommended by the authors to deepen your knowledge of the contents and engage in additional critical thinking.
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Chapter 1: What are the Attitudes and How are They Measured?
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Chapter 2: The Three Witches of Attitude
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Journal Article 2.1: Wolf, L., Von Hecker, U., & Maio, G. (2017). Affective and cognitive orientations in intergroup perception. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 43, 828-844.
Journal Article 2.2: Cheatham, L. B., & Tormala, Z. (2015). The curvilinear relationship between attitude certainty and attitude advocacy. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 41, 1537-1550.
Chapter 3: The Influence of Attitudes on Information Processing and Behavior
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Chapter 4: How do Attitudes Influence Behavior?
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Journal Article 4.1: Wood, W. (2017). Habit in personality and social psychology. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 21, 389-403.
Chapter 5: Cognitive Influences on Attitudes
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Journal Article 5.1: Clark, J. K., & Evans, A. T. (2014). Source credibility and persuasion: The role of message position in self-validation. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 40, 1024-1036.
Chapter 6: Affective Influences on Attitudes
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Journal Article 6.1: Carr, E. W., Brady, T. F., & Winkielman, P. (2017). Are you smiling, or have I seen you before? Familiarity makes faces look happier. Psychological Science, 28, 1087-1102.
Journal Article 6.3: Weidemann, G., Satkunarajah, M., & Lovibond, P. F. (2016). I think, therefore eyeblink: The importance of contingency awareness in conditioning. Psychological Science, 27, 467-475.
Chapter 7: Behavioral Influences on Attitudes
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Journal Article 7.1: Jordan, J. J., Sommers, L., Bloom, P., & Rand, D. G. (2017). Why do we hate hypocrites? Evidence for a theory of false signaling. Psychological Science, 28, 356-368.
Chapter 8: Basic Principles in How Attitudes are Shaped
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Journal Article 8.2: Ahn, H. -K., Kim, H., & Aggarwal, P. (2014). Helping fellow beings: Anthropomorphized social causes and the role of anticipatory guilt. Psychological Science, 25, 224-229.
Chapter 9: The Internal World
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Chapter 10: The External World
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Journal Article 10.1: Slepian, M. L., Ferber, S. N., Gold, J. M., & Rutchick, A. M. (2015). The cognitive consequences of formal clothing. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 6, 661-668.
Chapter 11: An Eye to the Future
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Journal Article 11.1: DeMarree, K. G., Briñol, P., & Petty, R. E. (2015). Reducing subjective ambivalence by creating doubt: A metacognitive approach. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 6, 1-9.
Journal Article 11.2: Durso, G. R. O., Brinol, P., & Petty, R. E. (2016). From power to inaction: Ambivalence gives pause to the powerful. Psychological Science, 27, 1660-1666.
Journal Article 11.4: Rocklage, M. D., & Fazio, R. H. (2016). On the dominance of attitude emotionality. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 42, 259-270.