Attitude Change or Attitude Formation? An Unanswered Question

1978 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 271 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carnegie-Mellon University Marketin Seminar
Keyword(s):  
Attitude Change ◽  
Attitude Formation ◽  
Unanswered Question

The Effects of Argument Quality and Involvement Type on Attitude Formation and Attitude Change: A Test of Dual-Process and Social Judgment Predictions

2007 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-102 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hee Sun Park ◽  
Timothy R. Levine ◽  
Catherine Y. Kingsley Westerman ◽  
Tierney Orfgen ◽  
Sarah Foregger
Keyword(s):  
Attitude Change ◽  
Social Judgment ◽  
Attitude Formation ◽  
Dual Process ◽  
Argument Quality

Attitude Formation and Attitude Change

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-28
Author(s):  
Supriya Srivastava ◽  
Kuldeep Chand Rojhe
Keyword(s):  
Social Psychology ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Human Behavior ◽  
Attitude Change ◽  
Strong Influence ◽  
Attitude Formation ◽  
Psychological Perspective ◽  
Social Psychological ◽  
Attitude Object ◽  
The Core

The study of attitudes formation and attitude change are two defining features at the core of social psychology. An attitude is a set of beliefs that people hold in relation to an attitude object, where an attitude object is a person, a product, or a social group. Since attitudes have been a strong influence on human behavior, social psychologists have viewed attitudes as important to understand behavior of individuals. Firstly, the chapter will introduce the concept of attitude with social psychological perspective. Attitude formation is important to understand to know why people hold different attitudes and how attitudes help to predict their behavior. In the second section, distinct ways of attitudes formation are discussed. It is also important to understand how attitudes influence in decision making, which is also discussed in the next section of the chapter. In the later section, changing processes of attitudes have been discussed.

scholarly journals Autoritarisme de droite et changement d’attitude dans le conditionnement évaluatif

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amélie Bret
Keyword(s):  
Attitude Change ◽  
Context Effects ◽  
Great Majority ◽  
Attitude Formation ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Intergroup Relation ◽  
Conditioning Paradigm ◽  
Right Wing Authoritarianism ◽  
Social Conservatism ◽  
The Relationship

Right wing authoritarianism (RWA) is a co-variation of social conservatism, traditionalism, and authoritarianism. One of the characteristics of RWA is a less malleability of attitudes over time. However, the link between RWA and rigidity of attitudes has mainly been observed in intergroup relation contexts. Such studies focus on the relationship between RWA and attitude change towards real groups. While the value of this work is undeniable, it is not possible to examine attitude formation and attitude change in a controlled manner. Indeed, studying real social groups implies context effects or social preconceptions on the attitude formation and on attitude change. In this thesis, we are interested in the understanding of RWA in attitude change within a standardized and controlled framework, the evaluative conditioningcounter-conditioning paradigm. Across 11 experiments, we tested whether RWA predicts a lower change of attitude towards new artificial stimuli. We observed that RWA was negatively associated with sensitivity to counterconditioning. This effect, present in the great majority of our experiments, has been modulated by the characteristics of conditioning-counter-conditioning. More specifically, the amount of counter-attitudinal information available, the presence of instructions, and the decrease in attentional resources were shown to modulate the link between RWA and attitude change. Overall, these results support the hypothesis that a smaller change in attitude is related to RWA even with novel artificial stimuli.

scholarly journals “It ain’t what you say, it’s the way that you say it”: A study on how tone in symbolic- and realistic threat frames affects anti-immigration attitudes in the Netherlands

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marijn van Klingeren
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Attitude Change ◽  
News Media ◽  
Attitude Formation ◽  
News Frames ◽  
Print News ◽  
Immigration Attitudes ◽  
Contextual Indicators ◽  
Cultural Frames

Immigration has occupied a prominent spot on many European media agendas. Media are often considered a key player in attitude- formation and separation. Yet, much of their exact influence on people’s immigration attitudes in the real world remains unknown, as data often fall short. This study aims to tackle the role of two common news frames in immigration news –the cultural- and economic frame— as well as the tone applied within these frames in the attitude formation process regarding immigration. With the use of Eurobarometer survey data (14 waves between 2003 and 2009), contextual indicators from the Eurostat website, and manually coded print-news media data from the Netherlands, this study examines whether these frames contribute to people’s attitude change and polarization over the issue. The across-the-board results indicate that increased visibility of negative cultural frames increases anti-immigration attitudes, whereas positive cultural frames yield the opposite result. Economic frames hardly produce any effect, and neither one of the two framing effects is dependent upon people’s political position. Meaning there is no indication that either one of these frames adds to polarization over the issue.

Emotion Decoding and Incidental Processing Fluency as Antecedents of Attitude Certainty

2017 ◽  
Vol 43 (7) ◽  
pp. 924-939
Author(s):  
John V. Petrocelli ◽  
Melanie B. Whitmire
Keyword(s):  
Facial Expressions ◽  
Attitude Change ◽  
Attitude Formation ◽  
Gaze Direction ◽  
Processing Fluency ◽  
The Gaze ◽  
Attitude Certainty ◽  
Emotion Decoding ◽  
The Social ◽  
Resistance To Persuasion

Previous research demonstrates that attitude certainty influences the degree to which an attitude changes in response to persuasive appeals. In the current research, decoding emotions from facial expressions and incidental processing fluency, during attitude formation, are examined as antecedents of both attitude certainty and attitude change. In Experiment 1, participants who decoded anger or happiness during attitude formation expressed their greater attitude certainty, and showed more resistance to persuasion than participants who decoded sadness. By manipulating the emotion decoded, the diagnosticity of processing fluency experienced during emotion decoding, and the gaze direction of the social targets, Experiment 2 suggests that the link between emotion decoding and attitude certainty results from incidental processing fluency. Experiment 3 demonstrated that fluency in processing irrelevant stimuli influences attitude certainty, which in turn influences resistance to persuasion. Implications for appraisal-based accounts of attitude formation and attitude change are discussed.

Perspective as a Determinant of Attitude Formation and Change

1973 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-16
Author(s):  
Eleanor L. Norris
Keyword(s):  
Attitude Change ◽  
Attitude Formation ◽  
Experimental Comparison ◽  
End Points ◽  
Perspective Theory

In an experimental comparison of the Sherif-Hovland and Upshaw attitude change theories, Upshaw's ‘perspective’ theory is sustained: subjects are influenced more by the end points of scales than by ‘assimilation and contrast.’

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