Attitudes: Their Structure, Function and Consequences

by Richard E. Petty and Russell H. Fazio

The study of likes and dislikes - what social psychologists refer to as "attitudes" - has been a central focus of the field for decades. What are attitudes? How can we study and measure them scientifically? How are they formed and changed? Of what functional value, if any, are they? How do they come to influence our attention, perception, judgments, and behavior? These are among the questions that have spurred social psychological research on attitudes,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1841690090
• ISBN13: 9781841690094
• Release Date: August 2007
• Publisher: Psychology Press
• Length: 512 Pages
• Weight: 2.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 7.6" x 9.6"