Authors
Christopher J Armitage, Mark Conner
Publication date
2000/11
Journal
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
Volume
26
Issue
11
Pages
1421-1432
Publisher
Sage Publications
Description
This article reports two studies designed to test the hypotheses that lower levels of attitudinal ambivalence are associated with attitudes that are more predictive of behavior, more stable over time, and less pliable. Study 1 (n = 346) employed a prospective design to test the effects of ambivalence on attitude-intention-behavior relationships. Findings indicated that less ambivalent attitudes were more predictive of subsequent behavioral intentions and behavior but were unrelated to attitude stability. Study 2 (n = 344) used a simple pre-post experimental design and showed that ambivalent attitudes were more pliable in the face of a persuasive communication. The findings are discussed in relation to future research into the bidimensional conceptualization of attitudes.
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CJ Armitage, M Conner - Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 2000