Attitudes

<p>The study of likes and dislikes - what social psychologists refer to as attitudes - has been a central focus of the field for decades. What are attitudes? How can we study and measure them scientifically? How are they formed and changed? Of what functional value if any are they? How do they come to influence our attention perception judgments and behavior? These are among the questions that have spurred social psychological research on attitudes and they are among the issues addressed in this volume.</p> <p>The articles reprinted in this collection represent noteworthy developments in the field's understanding of attitudes. Together the readings provide a representative and broad coverage of the literature illustrating well what the field has come to learn about the structure function and consequences of attitudes.</p>