Attitudes and Attitude Change

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 explicit approaches to measurement and conceptualization are featured throughout, making this one of the most up-to-date treatments of attitude theory and research currently available. The comprehensive coverage of the central topics in this important field provides a useful text in advanced courses on persuasion or attitude change.

Introduction
Attitudes and Attitude Change: The Fourth Peak
Attitudes, Nature, and Measurement
Structure of Attitudes: Judgments, Memory, and Implications for Change
Attitude Measurement
Implicit Attitudes 101: Theoretical and Empirical Insights
Attitudes: Origins and Formation
Attitude Formation and Change Through Association: An Evaluative Conditioning Account
Origins of Attitudes
The Role of Affect in Attitudes and Attitude Change
Attitudes: Change and Resistance
Information Processing Approaches to Persuasion: Integrating Assumptions from the Dual and Single-Processing Perspectives
Attitude Functions in Persuasion: Matching, Involvement, Self-Affirmation, and Hierarchy
Attitudes: Beyond Evaluation
A New Framework for Resistance to Persuasion: The Resistance Appraisals Hypothesis
Attitude Strength
Attitudinal Ambivalence
Attitudes: Mutual Impacts of Beliefs and Behaviors
Attitudes and the Prediction of Behavior
How Behavior Shapes Attitudes: Cognitive Dissonance Processes
Attitudes: The Social Context
Social Identity and Attitudes
Persuasion from Minority and Majority Groups
Normative Beliefs as Agents of Influence: Basic Processes and Real-World Applications
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