Unraveling the process underlying evaluation: attitudes from the perspective of the APE model
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A study on the perspective of the Associative-Propositional Evaluation (APE) Model that distinguishes between associative and propositional processes that influence evaluative responses to an object is presented. The basic assumptions of the APE Model and their implications for the conceptualization of attitudes are discussed.
Publication Name: Social Cognition
Subject: Sociology and social work
ISSN: 0278-016X
Year: 2007
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The advantages of an inclusive definition of attitude
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A study to determine how phenomena ordinarily identified as attitudinal relates to current and an alternative definition of attitude is presented. Results show that evaluation, attitude object, and tendency are the three essential features that make up attitude.
Publication Name: Social Cognition
Subject: Sociology and social work
ISSN: 0278-016X
Year: 2007
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Attitudes as object-evaluation associations of varying strength
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A brief review on the historical developments about the concept of attitude is presented. Attitudes are evaluative knowledge, represented in memory in the same way as any other form of knowledge.
Publication Name: Social Cognition
Subject: Sociology and social work
ISSN: 0278-016X
Year: 2007
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