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Chapters

Following draft chapters are available for download in PDF format:

Jim Blascovich
University of California, Santa Barbara
Attitudes in Virtual Reality

Joel Cooper
Princeton University
Vicarious Cognitive Dissonance: Changing Attitudes by Experiencing Another’s Pain

William Crano
Claremont Graduate University
Applying Established Theories of Persuasion to Problems that Matter:
On Becoming Susceptible to Our Own Knowledge

Klaus Fiedler
University of Heidelberg
The Asymmetry of Causal and Diagnostic Inferences – A Challenge for the Study of Implicit Attitudes

Joseph Forgas
University of New South Wales
Affective influences on attitudes and attitude change processes

Eddie Harmon-Jones
Texas A&M University, USA
Action-Based Model of Dissonance: On Cognitive Conflict and Attitude Change

Blair T. Johnson and Marcella H. Boynton
University of Connecticut
Putting Attitudes in Their Place: Behavioral Prediction in the Face of Competing Variables

John Krosnick
Stanford University
Passion in Politics: The Study of Attitude Strength Inside and Outside the Laboratory

Brenda Major
University of California, Santa Barbara
Prejudice as Worldview Threat or Worldview Confirmation

Radmila Prislin
San Diego State University, USA
Persuasion as Social Interaction

Fred Rhodewalt 
University of Utah, USA
The Self and Intergroup Attitudes: Connecting “Fragile” Personal and Collective Self-Concepts

Steve Spencer
University of Waterloo, Canada
Implicit Evaluations and Attitude Change: How Implicit Attitudes and Norms can Foster Changes in Attitudes and Behavior

Yaacov Trope
New York University, USA
Attitudes as global and local action guides

Michaela Wänke
Universität Basel, Switzerland
The persuasion paradox: How ambiguous information is turned into a persuasive argument

Eva Walther
University of Trier, Germany
For whom Pavlov’s bell tolls: Is there any evidence for associative processes underlying evaluative conditioning?

Williams, Kipling
Purdue University, USA
A Need-Based Theory of Persuasion