- Oxford Library of Psychology
- The Oxford Handbook of Personality and Social Psychology
- About the Editors
- Contributors
- Personality and Social Psychology: Moving Toward a More Perfect Union
- The Intertwined Histories of Personality and Social Psychology
- Perspectives on the Person: Rapid Growth and Opportunities for Integration
- Perspectives on the Situation
- Neuroscience Approaches in Social and Personality Psychology
- Evolutionary Perspectives
- Context in Person, Person in Context: A Cultural Psychology Approach to Social–Personality Psychology
- Behavior and Behavior Assessment
- Conceptual and Methodological Issues in the Analysis of Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Dyadic Data
- Multilevel Modeling in Personality and Social Psychology
- The Self: Dynamics of Persons and Their Situations
- Identity: Personal AND Social
- Morality
- Motivation and Goal Pursuit: Integration Across the Social/Personality Divide
- Five Questions About Emotion: Implications for Social–Personality Psychology
- Cybernetic Approaches to Personality and Social Behavior
- Initial Impressions of Others
- Attitudes and Attitude Change: Social and Personality Considerations About Specific and General Patterns of Behavior
- From Help Giving to Helping Relations: Belongingness and Independence in Social Interactions
- Antisocial Behavior in Individuals and Groups: An Empathy-Focused Approach
- Personality and Social Interaction: Interpenetrating Processes
- Attachment Theory Expanded: A Behavioral Systems Approach to Personality and Social Behavior
- Person-by-Situation Perspectives on Close Relationships
- Personality Influences on Group Processes: The Past, Present, and Future
- Intergroup Processes: From Prejudice to Positive Relations Between Groups
- Power as Active Self: From Acquisition to the Expression and Use of Power
- Personality, Social Psychology, and Psychopathology: Reflections on a Lewinian Vision
- Individual and Societal Well-Being
- Multicultural Identity and Experiences: Cultural, Social, and Personality ProcessesVerónica Benet-Martínez
- Personality and Social Contexts as Sources of Change and Continuity Across the Life Span
- The Social Psychology of Personality and Leadership: A Person-in-Situation Perspective
- Work and Organizations: Contextualizing Personality and Social Psychology
- A Person × Intervention Strategy Approach to Understanding Health Behavior
- Forensic Personality and Social Psychology
- The Psychology of Collective Action
- Social Policy: Barriers and Opportunities for Personality and Social Psychology
- Personality and Social Psychology: The Evolving State of the Union
- Index
Abstract and Keywords
This chapter discusses the definition of attitudes as evaluations, with beliefs, intentions, goals, and behaviors as the psychological building blocks of attitude-relevant processes. These considerations can take place at both the specific level of a single behavior (e.g., smoking) or at the general level of a pattern of behaviors (e.g., multiple behaviors). Classic and contemporary attitude scholarship have provided a theoretical understanding of prediction and change in behavior at both the specific and broad levels of analysis. Personality instruments have contributed to identifying trait associations with specific attitude processes, including structure, functions, and bases, as well as attitude and belief change. Future personality research, however, would benefit from adopting attitude models that clearly distinguish psychological building blocks rather than confound feelings, thoughts, and behaviors as being equivalent or equally close to behavior end points.
Keywords: attitude, multiple behaviors, processes of change, belief correction, selective exposure
Dolores Albarracín, Department of Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, Champaign, IL, USA
Man-pui Sally Chan, Department of Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana– Champaign, Champaign, IL, USA
Duo Jiang, Department of Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, Champaign, IL, USA
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- Oxford Library of Psychology
- The Oxford Handbook of Personality and Social Psychology
- About the Editors
- Contributors
- Personality and Social Psychology: Moving Toward a More Perfect Union
- The Intertwined Histories of Personality and Social Psychology
- Perspectives on the Person: Rapid Growth and Opportunities for Integration
- Perspectives on the Situation
- Neuroscience Approaches in Social and Personality Psychology
- Evolutionary Perspectives
- Context in Person, Person in Context: A Cultural Psychology Approach to Social–Personality Psychology
- Behavior and Behavior Assessment
- Conceptual and Methodological Issues in the Analysis of Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Dyadic Data
- Multilevel Modeling in Personality and Social Psychology
- The Self: Dynamics of Persons and Their Situations
- Identity: Personal AND Social
- Morality
- Motivation and Goal Pursuit: Integration Across the Social/Personality Divide
- Five Questions About Emotion: Implications for Social–Personality Psychology
- Cybernetic Approaches to Personality and Social Behavior
- Initial Impressions of Others
- Attitudes and Attitude Change: Social and Personality Considerations About Specific and General Patterns of Behavior
- From Help Giving to Helping Relations: Belongingness and Independence in Social Interactions
- Antisocial Behavior in Individuals and Groups: An Empathy-Focused Approach
- Personality and Social Interaction: Interpenetrating Processes
- Attachment Theory Expanded: A Behavioral Systems Approach to Personality and Social Behavior
- Person-by-Situation Perspectives on Close Relationships
- Personality Influences on Group Processes: The Past, Present, and Future
- Intergroup Processes: From Prejudice to Positive Relations Between Groups
- Power as Active Self: From Acquisition to the Expression and Use of Power
- Personality, Social Psychology, and Psychopathology: Reflections on a Lewinian Vision
- Individual and Societal Well-Being
- Multicultural Identity and Experiences: Cultural, Social, and Personality ProcessesVerónica Benet-Martínez
- Personality and Social Contexts as Sources of Change and Continuity Across the Life Span
- The Social Psychology of Personality and Leadership: A Person-in-Situation Perspective
- Work and Organizations: Contextualizing Personality and Social Psychology
- A Person × Intervention Strategy Approach to Understanding Health Behavior
- Forensic Personality and Social Psychology
- The Psychology of Collective Action
- Social Policy: Barriers and Opportunities for Personality and Social Psychology
- Personality and Social Psychology: The Evolving State of the Union
- Index
