Attitudes, Personality and Behaviour
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... relatively low thresholds for the perception of attitude-relevant positive stimuli, while people with unfavorable attitudes have relatively low thresholds for negative stimuli. To infer attitudes toward the medical profession, therefore ...
... relatively low thresholds for the perception of attitude-relevant positive stimuli, while people with unfavorable attitudes have relatively low thresholds for negative stimuli. To infer attitudes toward the medical profession, therefore ...
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... relatively stable, enduring dispositions, attitudes are typically viewed as more malleable than personality traits. Evaluations can change rapidly as events unfold and new information about a person or issue becomes available, but the ...
... relatively stable, enduring dispositions, attitudes are typically viewed as more malleable than personality traits. Evaluations can change rapidly as events unfold and new information about a person or issue becomes available, but the ...
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... relatively awkward or ill at ease in social situations, and consequently is not nearly as adept at making good conversation. As a measure of introversion–extraversion, the participants were asked to indicate which was a better ...
... relatively awkward or ill at ease in social situations, and consequently is not nearly as adept at making good conversation. As a measure of introversion–extraversion, the participants were asked to indicate which was a better ...
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... relatively direct indication of attitude is the semantic differential, developed by Charles Osgood and his associates (Osgood et al. 1957). Designed originally to measure the meaning of a concept, it is now used in a variety of contexts ...
... relatively direct indication of attitude is the semantic differential, developed by Charles Osgood and his associates (Osgood et al. 1957). Designed originally to measure the meaning of a concept, it is now used in a variety of contexts ...
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... relatively unaffected. The greater the number of items used, therefore, the more reliable the score will tend to be. In fact, it is possible to compute the increment in reliability that is likely to result from an increased number of ...
... relatively unaffected. The greater the number of items used, therefore, the more reliable the score will tend to be. In fact, it is possible to compute the increment in reliability that is likely to result from an increased number of ...
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