SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY
ATTRIBUTION ATTITUDES AND ACTIONS
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central route persuasion.
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a role.
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social psychology.
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the foot-in-the-door phenomenon.
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an attitude.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Attitudes: Beliefs and feelings that predispose people to respond in particular ways to situations and other people.
Detailed explanation-2: -Attitudes are feelings, often influenced by our beliefs, that predispose us to respond in certain ways.
Detailed explanation-3: -Attitudes are feelings, often influenced by our beliefs, that predispose us to respond in a particular way to objects, feelings and events.
Detailed explanation-4: -Cognitive dissonance theory postulates that an underlying psychological tension is created when an individual’s behavior is inconsistent with his or her thoughts and beliefs. This underlying tension then motivates an individual to make an attitude change that would produce consistency between thoughts and behaviors.
Detailed explanation-5: -There are five primary types of cognitive dissonance: post-decisional dissonance, dissonance from wanting something we can’t have, dissonance due to inconsistency between attitude and behavior, dissonance due to inadequate justification, and dissonance due to inconsistency between commitment and information.