PSY 320 L2

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Attitudes: 

Attitudes Basic components Automaticity and Strength Their measurement

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Recall: “a learned, global evaluation of an object (person, place or issue) that influences thought and action”

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Attitude as evaluative Stimuli that denote attitude object attitude Evaluative response observable inferred observable

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The analysis of attitudes Stimuli that denote attitude object attitude Affective responses observable inferred observable Cognitive responses Behavioral responses

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Antecedents of attitudes attitude Cognitive processes Affective processes Behavioral processes

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STRUCTURE OF ATTITUDES

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Expectancy-Value Approach: Attitudes have 2 components: Cognition and affect A = Sum b (i) x e (i) For example: DIETING Beliefs: Dieting makes you skinny. 1 to 7 Dieting makes you healthy. Dieting requires discipline. Evaluation: Do you think that being skinny is Very good ………………Very bad Fishbein & Ajzen (1975)

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Other models: Stress symbols – symbolic representations at the core eg., person with AIDS- becomes associated with other ideas and emotions

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Person Node HIV

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Person Node HIV Sex Disease Blacks Homosexuals Death Drug Users Other attributes

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Person Node HIV Sex Disease Blacks Homosexuals Death Drug Users Affect Affect Affect Affect Affect Affect Other attributes Affect

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Ideologies Conservative ideology opposition to welfare support for tax cuts Liberal ideology support for welfare endorsement of targeted tax cuts

Attitude Strength: 

Attitude Strength Class exercise

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Characteristics of strong attitudes: They persist over time They affect judgments They guide behavior, and They are resistant to change.

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Why are strong attitudes stable? Most likely anchored by other beliefs and values Associated with greater knowledge Reinforced by others with similar attitudes More elaborated on and accessible Lead to selective attention to related information

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Strong attitudes are characterized by: Importance Ego-involvement Extremity Certainty Accessibility Knowledge Hierarchical organization

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AMBIVALENCE Occurs when we have both positive and negative feelings about the attitude object Characterized by uncertainty and conflict between attitude elements e.g., aspire to equality, but have strong negative emotional reaction to homosexual activity

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Ambivalent Sexism (Glick & Fiske, 1996) People can hold both hostile and benevolent beliefs toward women Hostile beliefs: ‘Women exaggerate problems at work’ Benevolent beliefs: ‘Women should be protected and cherished by men’

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Fritz Heider (1958) People are motivated to reconfigure to achieve harmony P, O, and X eg., Bill Clinton’s affair with Monica Lewinsky

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Self Clinton-Lewinsky Affair Clinton + _ + Cognitively-imbalanced

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Abelson (1959) Denial Bolstering Differentiation Transcendance

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ACCESSIBILITY Fazio (1995)- attitude as an association between an object and an evaluation Strength is measured by the degree of association Accessibility is the key indicator of attitude strength Defined: the degree to which the attitude is automatically activated in memory

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Fazio et al (1986) Main question: Rationale: object ------ evaluation If association = strong, attitude will be spontaneously activated upon presentation of the object

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Employed a priming procedure based on: dessert - prime facilitates responding of… cherry pie

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Primary Task: -indicate whether adjective has a positive or negative connotation -attitude object was the prime -latency of response time = DV

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PRIME peanut M&M ‘s (if positive, activates positive evaluation) Adjective beautiful Expect facilitation if o-e is strong

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Exp’t 1: - 2 parts: a. prime selection b. actual priming task

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chopped liver

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disgusting

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Main Findings? Experiment 2 -same procedure except…

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Experiment 3 -main purpose? -procedure? -main findings?

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Bizer & Krosnick (2001) -relationship between attitude importance and accessibility Attitude importance- subjective sense of concern about an attitude and the psychological significance that an individual attaches to it

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Attitude accessibility- strength of the O-E link in memory 2 positions: Attitude importance causes attitude accessibility (Krosnick, 1989) Reverse is true (Roese & Olson, 1994)

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4 studies STUDY 1 STUDY 2 STUDY 3 STUDY 4

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Probability Personal Relevance Manipulation Implementation Likelihood Selective Exposure Attitude Accessibility Attitude Importance Likelihood Importance Care

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Probability Personal Relevance Manipulation Implementation Likelihood Selective Exposure Attitude Accessibility Attitude Importance Likelihood Importance Care