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Showing 1 to 20 of 38 for “"Attitude formation"”.
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Attitude Formation & Persuasion Via Reactance: No, You Can't – Yes, I Can!
… PRT can be used as a method to induce positive attitude formation. There is a need to understand how motivation to restore freedom (the driving force behind PRT) can be harnessed as a tool to persuade in a manner incongruent to typical persuasion techniques and form evaluations of attitude …
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Effects of content marketing on attitude formation in the South African energy drink market
… the way people understand and communicate information. The internet specifically has made possible unprecedented access to information which has added another dimension to consumer and marketing practitioner behaviour. The most salient consequence of these developments in the marketing …
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Joint relationship of four types of involvement (SI, EI, AMI and RI) : path analysis model combining mediation and moderation
… play in cognitive and behavioral processes and attitude formation by investigating 1) if and how SI and EI function jointly to form the level of AMI, 2) how SI, EI and AMI are interwoven to affect the level of RI, 3) the joint role of SI and EI on the routes to attitude formation. The findings …
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Attitudes toward old people and beliefs about aging: A generational study
Attitudes toward the elderly were examined in three generations through analysis of media use, gender, contact with elderly, age, factual knowledge about aging, and parental influence on attitude formation. The results revealed that age, factual knowledge, perceived ageism in mass media and …
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Attitudes toward old people and beliefs about aging: A generational study
Attitudes toward the elderly were examined in three generations through analysis of media use, gender, contact with elderly, age, factual knowledge about aging, and parental influence on attitude formation. The results revealed that age, factual knowledge, perceived ageism in mass media and …
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Social Networks, Public Opinion, and Foreign Policy
… specific norms. In the end, the study shows that attitude formation emerges as interplay between local and national dynamics.
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Playing for a Good Cause: Investigating Consumer Perceptions of Sport Brands in Cause-Related Marketing Campaigns
… potential processing elements for consumer brand attitude formation, and (2) analyzing the subsequent impact of the brand attitude formation process on purchase intention. Specifically, this research analyzed how the presence of a charitable cause (St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital) in a CRM …
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Preventing guilt by association: Mindfulness and susceptibility to evaluative conditioning
Evaluative conditioning (EC) is a type of attitude formation in which a stimulus is evaluated as positive or negative based on repeated pairings with valenced stimuli. Emerging evidence suggests that individuals differ in susceptibility to EC and these differences may be related to various social …
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Factors Affecting the Adoption of Home Heating Energy Conservation Measures: A Behavioral Approach
… and borrowing from psychological theories of attitude formation and decision making. In particular, six factors (information, environmental personality, socio-economic and demographic factors, dwelling unit characteristics, psychological variables, and past experience) are shown to directly …
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An investigation of the effects of time pressure on consumers' perception of price, quality, and value
… and value associated with the given price information of a product. To understand the effects of time pressure on information processing, a conceptual framework based on the process theories on attitude formation and change was developed. Unlike the existing conceptualization based on these …
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Attitudes of staff and students towards vocational education at a case study school
… purpose of this study was to investigate the attitudes of the staff and students at a metropolitan high school towards the vocational Education program, through examining the factors affecting the development of those attitudes and the factors affecting the implementation of the program at the …
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Processing of Behavior-Related Communications as a Function of Cognitive Elaboration: A Multiple-Stage Model
… depends on the ability to think about the information available. Both elaborative and nonelaborative processes are taken into account. Participants received a persuasive message advocating support of a referendum to institute comprehensive examinations at their university. When participants …
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Social Identity, Economic Interest, and the Formation of Host Attitudes Toward Refugees
… toward refugees. This study focuses on attitude formation during refugee crises, seeking to better understand the role of social and economic factors in shaping the attitudes of host populations. The core questions for this study are whether and how social identity and economic …
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Racial, not rational : economic threat, symbolic racism, and affirmative action
… have debated the determinants of whites' attitudes about racialized policies such as welfare, busing, and affirmative action. While some have argued that whites formulate their positions rationally according to perceived economic threat, others have asserted that such policy attitudes are …
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Determinants of Union Member Attitudes Towards Employee Involvement Programs
This study investigates the role social information and personal dispositions play in the development of attitudes of unionized employees towards employee involvement programs. A theoretical model was developed in order to understand how social information and dispositions form union member …
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An Examination of Disgust, its Measures, and Gender Differences in the Experience of Disgust Sensitivity
… better understand the relationship of disgust in attitude formation and psychological functioning. This study was an investigation of a measure referred to herein as the Disgust Propensity and Sensitivity Evolutionary Scale (DPSES). A total of 655 participants were recruited from a private …
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Ko e Fungani Mo'onia 'o e Faiako Ma'a Tonga: Understanding the professional attitudes of the valued teachers of Tonga
… to how the Tongan Government teachers’ positive attitudes could be developed and enhanced. In Tonga, the erosion of teacher attitudes, commitment, and professionalism has been recognised (Fua, Manu, Takapautolo, & Taufe’ulungaki, 2007; Matafahi & Fusitu’a, 2009; Taufe’ulungaki, 2012; 2013; …
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Local environmental attitudes, global environmental attitudes, and religion: An analysis in 47 nations
… the worldview of its subscribers and thence attitude formation and preferences of individuals towards many topics including the environment. Research interest in the impact of religion soared in the late 1960s, in response to White's (1967) article in Science claiming that a huge burden of …
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