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The notion of attitude has been among the most central and influential constructs in contemporary social psychology. Writing in 1935, Allport called attitude a “most distinctive and indispensable concept.” Ever since, active interest in attitudinal phenomena has been represented in the social cognitive literature, and recent literature reviews (cf. Cialdini, Petty, and Cacioppo, 1981; Cooper and Croyle, 1984) attest that attitude research today is among the most vital areas of inquiry in social psychology.
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Kruglanski, A.W. (1989). Attitudes as Knowledge Structures. In: Lay Epistemics and Human Knowledge. Perspectives in Social Psychology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-0924-4_6
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