About this Research Topic
Attitudes can be defined as global evaluations towards a particular entity with some degree a favor or disfavor. According to the multicomponent models, attitudes stem from three sources of information: affective responses, cognitions and behavioral information. During the last decades, research has addressed different problems, such as the explicit (vs implicit) measurement of attitudes and its internal components, the interplay among the different components of attitudes (e.g. ambivalence), individual differences in the way people form attitudes (e.g. Need for Affect, Need for Cognition) or use them (e.g., self-monitoring). One of the most intriguing challenges of social psychologists is to understand the mechanisms underlying the attitude change. This is particularly relevant in regard to health and pro-environmental attitudes.
Although the body of research focusing on attitude and attitude change is vast, it is sparse across different disciplines and contexts. This has a lot to do with the extreme flexibility of the construct which makes it applicable to a variety of social issues. Ranging from public health to technology acceptance, research on attitude and attitude functioning has flourished. This Research Topic will focus on the most recent and advanced research on mechanisms underlying attitudes, interdependence between individual and social factors influencing attitudes, and their universality across the globe.
The aim of this Research Topic is to collect articles featuring different approaches, both theoretically and methodologically, focusing on attitude and attitude change. The goal is to provide an overview of the current results, methods and applications that would foster the discussion and generate new ideas for the future of the field.
Topics of primary interest for this Research Topic include, but are not limited to:
• Relationship between attitudes and individual differences (e.g.: Need for Affect, Need for Cognition, political orientation)
• Relationship between attitudes and behavior: application of classical theoretical models and their extensions
• Attitudes measurement: new approaches
• Cross cultural research about attitudes
• Attitude change: persuasion, conformism, communication
• Attitudes shared within components of a social groups regarding outgroups and their change: stereotypes, prejudice, and how to modify them
We are interested in Original Research, Systematic Review, Methods, and Review and other article types accepted by Frontiers.
Although the body of research focusing on attitude and attitude change is vast, it is sparse across different disciplines and contexts. This has a lot to do with the extreme flexibility of the construct which makes it applicable to a variety of social issues. Ranging from public health to technology acceptance, research on attitude and attitude functioning has flourished. This Research Topic will focus on the most recent and advanced research on mechanisms underlying attitudes, interdependence between individual and social factors influencing attitudes, and their universality across the globe.
The aim of this Research Topic is to collect articles featuring different approaches, both theoretically and methodologically, focusing on attitude and attitude change. The goal is to provide an overview of the current results, methods and applications that would foster the discussion and generate new ideas for the future of the field.
Topics of primary interest for this Research Topic include, but are not limited to:
• Relationship between attitudes and individual differences (e.g.: Need for Affect, Need for Cognition, political orientation)
• Relationship between attitudes and behavior: application of classical theoretical models and their extensions
• Attitudes measurement: new approaches
• Cross cultural research about attitudes
• Attitude change: persuasion, conformism, communication
• Attitudes shared within components of a social groups regarding outgroups and their change: stereotypes, prejudice, and how to modify them
We are interested in Original Research, Systematic Review, Methods, and Review and other article types accepted by Frontiers.
Keywords: Attitudes; Persuasion; Individual differences; Ambivalence; Implicit
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