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Psychological Foundations of Attitudes

  • 1st Edition - January 1, 1968
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Anthony G. Greenwald, Timothy C. Brock, Thomas M. Ostrom
  • Language: English
  • Paperback ISBN:
    9 7 8 - 1 - 4 8 3 2 - 5 3 9 6 - 1
  • Hardback ISBN:
    9 7 8 - 1 - 4 8 3 2 - 3 0 7 1 - 9
  • eBook ISBN:
    9 7 8 - 1 - 4 8 3 2 - 5 8 5 1 - 5

Psychological Foundations of Attitudes presents various approaches and theories about attitudes. The book opens with a chapter on the development of attitude theory from 1930 to… Read more

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Psychological Foundations of Attitudes presents various approaches and theories about attitudes. The book opens with a chapter on the development of attitude theory from 1930 to 1950. This is followed by separate chapters on the principles of the attitude-reinforcer-discriminative system; a systematic test of a learning theory analysis of interpersonal attraction; a "spread of effect" in attitude formation; Hullian learning theory; and possible origins of learned attitudinal cognitions. Subsequent chapters deal with mechanisms through which attitudes can function as both independent and dependent variables in the attitude-behavior link; and the problem of how people go about applying a summary label to their attitudes and the reciprocal effects that rating has on the content of attitude. The final chapters discuss a commodity theory that relates selective social communication to value formation; the freedoms there are in regard to attitudes; attitude change occasioned by actions which are discrepant from one's previously existing attitudes or values; and the conflict-theory approach to attitude change.

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