Fishbein and Ajzerfs (1975) theory of reasoned action is currently the most successful and much discussed theory in attitude-behavior research. A l though the theory is well established for predicting behavior in various contexts, its central assumption of a static attitude-behavior intention relation appears questionable when recent results of cognitively oriented decision research are conside...

We explored the emotional and attitudinal consequences of personal attitude-behavior discrepancies using a religious version of the hypocrisy paradigm. We induced cognitive dissonance in participants (n = 206) by making them feel hypocritical for advocating certain religious behaviors that they had not recently engaged in to their own satisfaction. In Experiment 1, this resulted in higher level...

Over the past few years, the communication world has attended the unprecedented growth of a new media, the Internet. Websites, one of the Internet’s main tools, are being widely used in the communication process carried out by companies through the virtual environment. For that reason, further research needs to be undertaken so as to identify and understand consumers’ behaviour online. In this ...

Please consider the platitudes presented in (1). (1) Some Platitudes We use names to talk about objects. We use predicates to talk about properties and relations. We use sentences to attribute properties and relations to objects. We say things when we utter sentences, often things we believe. Nearly all semantic theories are consistent with these platitudes. But it seems to me that the theory g...

We begin this article with the assumption that attitudes are best understood as structures in longterm memory, and we look at the implications of this view for the response process in attitude surveys. More specifically, we assert that an answer to an attitude question is the product of a fourstage process. Respondents first interpret the attitude question, determining what attitude the questio...

A variety of attitude predicates seem to presuppose that their complement is true, including the cognitive factives (know, discover, realize), which presuppose their propositional complement p, and emotive factives (love, regret, sad), which presuppose both p and the attitude holder’s belief in p. It will be shown that, in sharp contrast, no predicate in English that reports a communicative act...

A skin biopsy is one of the most frequently performed procedures in the dermatology outpatient clinic, but doctors often do not consider the cognitive impact of the biopsy procedure. Based on "terror management theory," we reasoned that a skin biopsy increases patient compliance by unconsciously stimulating mortality salience. To study this hypothesis, trust toward doctors, authoritarian person...

introduction: in past decades, psychologists have emphasized the effects that family, cultural and social factors (specially, cognitive-behavioral approach and life skills) may have on mental health and on the treatment of mental disorders. the aim of this study was to evaluate the efficiency of confrontation cognitive-behavioral skills through group training on reducing anxiety and enhancing a...

The problem in this study was how were the students’ attitude learning English at eleventh grade of SMA Negeri 2 Gu? This aimed determining and identifying Gu. design a descriptive qualitative. Subjects research fifteen students Techniquies data collection questionnaire interviw. Techniques analysis used reduction, display conclusion. result showed thwt te had positive English, which consisted ...