Attitudes, Personality and Behaviour
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... considered dishonest; when they perform poorly, they are said to lack ability or motivation; when they help a person in need, they are called altruistic or compassionate; and when they discriminate against members of a minority group ...
... considered dishonest; when they perform poorly, they are said to lack ability or motivation; when they help a person in need, they are called altruistic or compassionate; and when they discriminate against members of a minority group ...
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... considered manifestations of an underlying personality characteristic. Table 1.1 indicates that the responses used to infer a trait can be overt, i.e. directly observable, or covert, not directly accessible to an outside observer ...
... considered manifestations of an underlying personality characteristic. Table 1.1 indicates that the responses used to infer a trait can be overt, i.e. directly observable, or covert, not directly accessible to an outside observer ...
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... considered. To simplify matters, it is useful to categorize attitude-relevant responses into various subgroups. Thus, we might distinguish between responses directed at others and responses directed at the self, between behaviors ...
... considered. To simplify matters, it is useful to categorize attitude-relevant responses into various subgroups. Thus, we might distinguish between responses directed at others and responses directed at the self, between behaviors ...
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... considered are the galvanic skin response (electrical conductance of the skin), constriction and dilation of the pupil, heart rate, blood pressure, the reactions of facial muscles, and other reactions of the sympathetic nervous system ...
... considered are the galvanic skin response (electrical conductance of the skin), constriction and dilation of the pupil, heart rate, blood pressure, the reactions of facial muscles, and other reactions of the sympathetic nervous system ...
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... considered later, but one issue is particularly troublesome for single-item measures of attitudes or personality traits. This is the question of reliability, or the extent to which repeated assessments of the same trait or attitude ...
... considered later, but one issue is particularly troublesome for single-item measures of attitudes or personality traits. This is the question of reliability, or the extent to which repeated assessments of the same trait or attitude ...
Contents
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Chapter 02 CONSISTENCY IN HUMAN AFFAIRS | 24 |
Chapter 03 FROM DISPOSITIONS TO ACTIONS | 41 |
Chapter 04 THE PRINCIPLE OF COMPATIBILITY | 71 |
Chapter 05 FROM INTENTIONS TO ACTIONS | 99 |
Chapter 06 EXPLAINING INTENTIONS AND BEHAVIOR | 117 |
Chapter 07 CONCLUSION | 142 |
References | 147 |
Author Index | 168 |
Subject Index | 174 |
Back cover | 179 |
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Page 28 - An attitude is a mental and neural state of readiness, organized through experience, exerting a directive or dynamic influence upon the individual's response to all objects and situations with which it is related
Page 38 - Taken as a whole, these studies suggest that it is considerably more likely that attitudes will be unrelated or only slightly related to overt behaviors than that attitudes will be closely related to actions.
Page 68 - Once we attend to interactions, we enter a hall of mirrors that extends to infinity. However far we carry our analysis — to third order or fifth order or any other — untested interactions of a still higher order can be envisioned.
Page 41 - I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when you looked at it in the right way, did not become still more complicated.
Page 38 - personality coefficient' might be coined to describe the correlation between .20 and .30 which is found persistently when virtually any personality dimension inferred from a questionnaire is related to almost any conceivable external criterion involving responses sampled in a different medium - that is, not by another questionnaire.
Page 30 - Specifically the subjective value of each attribute contributes to the attitude in direct proportion to the strength of the belief (ie, the subjective probability that the object has the attribute in question).
Page 38 - Mischel (1968) has concluded that "behaviors which are often construed as stable personality trait indicators actually are highly specific and depend on the details of the evoking situations and the response mode employed to measure them (p.
Page 32 - Will you accept members of the Chinese race as guests in your establishment?
Page 38 - With the possible exception of intelligence, highly generalized behavioral consistencies have not been demonstrated, and the concept of personality traits as broad response predispositions is thus untenable
Page 38 - little evidence to support the postulated existence of stable, underlying attitudes within the individual which influence both his verbal expressions and his actions