The Psychology of attitudes and attitude change / editors, Joseph P. Forgas, Joel Cooper, William Crano.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Attitudes and attitude change: an introductory review / William D. Crano, Joel Cooper, and Joseph P. Forgas -- Putting attitudes in their place: behavioral prediction in the face of competing variables / Blair T. Johnson and Marcella H. Boynton -- Attitudes as global and local action guides / Alison Ledgerwood and Yaacov Trope -- For whom Pavlov's bell tolls: processes underlying evaluative conditioning / Eva Walther and Tina Langer -- The asymmetry of causal and diagnostic inferences: a challenge for the study of implicit attitudes / Klaus Fiedler -- Learning what most people like: how implicit attitudes and normative evaluations shape prejudice and stereotype threat and are shaped by social identity protection and culture / Steven J. Spencer ... [and others] -- Operative and meta-attitudinal manifestations of attitude accessibility: two different constructs, not two measures of the same construct / Allyson L. Holbrook and Jon A. Krosnick -- Vicarious cognitive dissonance: changing attitudes by experiencing another's pain / Joel Cooper -- Affective influences on the formation, expression, and change of attitudes / Joseph P. Forgas -- Action-based model of dissonance: on cognitive conflict and attitude change / Eddie Harmon-Jones, David M. Amodio, and Cindy Harmon-Jones -- Pragmatic persuasion: how communicative processes make information appear persuasive / Michaela Wan̈̈ke and Leonie Reutner -- Persuasion after ostracism: need-based influences on persuasion / Kipling D. Williams, Zhansheng Chen, and Duane Wegener -- Persuasion as social interaction / Radmila Prislin -- Experiments as reforms: persuasion in the nation's service / William D. Crano -- Psychological implications of attitudes and beliefs about status inequality / Brenda Major and Sarah S. M. Townsend -- The self and intergroup attitudes: connecting "fragile" personal and collective self-concepts / Frederick Rhodewalt and Benjamin Peterson -- Attitudes in virtual reality / Jim Blascovich and Cade McCall.

Human Beings Have a Unique Symbolic Ability To Crystallize Their Experiences into mental predispositions and attitudes that guide their future behaviors. Understanding how such attitudes are formed, organized, maintained, and changed, and how they influence social behavior, is one of the core questions for psychology. This volume presents and integrates cutting-edge contemporary research on attitudes and attitude change, featuring the work of an international group of eminent scholars. The book is essential reading for students and researchers in social psychology, as well as practitioners in every applied field where understanding and changing attitudes is important, such as clinical, counseling, organizational, political, marketing, forensic, developmental, and health psychology. --Book Jacket.