Contemporary perspectives on the psychology of attitudes / edited by Geoffrey Haddock and Gregory R. Maio.

"In July 2000 ... at the Gregynog Estate in the picturesque hills of mid-Wales for a meeting on the psychology on attitudes, jointly sponsored by the European Association of Experimental Social Psychology and the University of Wales."--Page 2.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

The function-structure model of attitudes : incorporating the need for affect / Gregory R. Maio [and others] -- Individual differences in attitude structure / Geoffrey Haddock and Thomas L.H. Huskinson -- A theory about the translation of cognition into affect and behavior / David Trafimow and Paschal Sheeran -- Hold still while I measure your attitude : assessment in the throes of ambivalence / Steven J. Breckler -- Attitude ambivalence in the realm of politics / Howard Lavine -- The effects of attitudinal ambivalence on attention-intention-behavior relations / Christopher J. Armitage and Mark Conner -- Intention-behavior relations : a self-regulation perspective / Sheina Orbell -- An alternative view of pre-volitional processes in decision making : conceptual issues and empirical evidence / Marco Perugini and Richard P. Bagozzi -- Self-validation processes : the role of thought confidence in persuasion / Pablo Brinol and Richard E. Petty -- Coping with invalid messages by increasing or decreasing processing complexity / Yaacov Schul -- The value-account model of attitude formation / Tilmann Betsch, Henning Plessner and Elke Schallies -- The relationship between implicit attitudes and behavior : some lessons from the past, and directions for the future / Patrick T. Vargas -- The role of exemplar stability in attitude consistency and attitude change / Charles G. Lord -- Putting Humpty together again : attitude organization from a connectionist perspective / J. Richard Eiser -- Connectionist modeling of attitudes and cognitive dissonance / Karen Jordens and Frank van Overwalle -- Investigating attitudes cross-culturally : a case of cognitive dissonance among East Asians and North Americans / Etsuko Hoshino-Browne [and others] -- The parametric unimodel as a theory of persuasion / Arie W. Kruglanski [and others] -- Theories of attitude : creating a witches' brew / Gregory R. Maio and Geoffrey Haddock.

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Empirically supported throughout, this collection represents a timely integration of the burgeoning range of approaches to attitude research by expert contributors to the field.

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