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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"attitude extremity"”.
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A Subjective Measure of Attitude Extremity: Validation and Extension
Attitudes are individuals’ enduring global evaluations of objects, concepts, or ideas, which may vary in both valence and extremity. There are many important determinants of attitudes and attitude strength, with research suggesting that one important determinant is the extremity of one’s attitude. …
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“What a wild thing to think!”: The effects of attitude expression on perceptions of attitude extremity
… of a prolific field of research concerned with attitudes and their various properties, there is a glaring lack of understanding of what it means for attitudes to be extreme conceptually. The typical definition simply refers to an attitude’s distance from a scale midpoint (also known as …
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Attitudinal Responses to Mixed Evidence: The Role of Attitude Extremity and Political Ideology in Effecting Change versus Resistance
Four studies investigated the effects of attitude extremity and political ideology on the degree and direction of changes in issue attitudes following the presentation of mixed evidence. Based upon previous work, it was predicted that those holding relatively more extreme attitudes would resist …
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Integrative Complexity of Coastal Resources Management: Examining Tradeoffs Between Ecosystem Protection and Resource Use
… integrative complexity, value orientations, and attitudes toward coastal resource use and protection. These are important topics within the human dimensions of coastal resources management that can help us understand the cognitive processes people use when thinking about acceptable tradeoffs …