Attitude change as a function of internal-external control and communicator status1

Internal-external control and attitude toward disability.

Communicator Effectiveness in Producing Public Conformity and Private Attitude Change.

One of the most widely held generalizabons m social psychology IS that the efiEectiveness of a persuasive communication IS mcreased if its source is "credible " The early research by Hovland and Weiss (1951) and by Kelman and Hovland (1953) which gave substance to this conclusion has recently been extended to demonsbate the efficacy of credible communicators even when the amount of change advoc...

Openness to attitude change as a function of temporal perspective.

Three studies investigated the impact of temporal perspective on people's dominant social goals and explored the implications of these goals for openness to attitude change. Participants who perceived time as limited expressed social preferences in accordance with emotion-regulation goals (Study 1), were more prone to modify their attitude to bring it into line with the attitude of an anticipat...

Robust Attitude Control of Spacecraft Simulator with External Disturbances

The spacecraft simulator robust control through H∞-based linear matrix inequality (LMI) and robust adaptive method is  implemented. The spacecraft attitude control subsystem simulator consists of  a  platform, an air-bearing and a set of four reaction wheels. This set up provides a free real-time three degree of freedom rotation. Spacecraft simulators are applied in upgrading and checking the c...

Internal and external forces in language change

If every productive form of linguistic expression can be described by some idealized human grammar, an individuals’s variable linguistic behavior (Weinreich, Labov, & Herzog, 1968) can be modeled as a statistical distribution of multiple idealized grammars. The distribution of grammars is determined by the interaction between the biological constraints on human grammar and the properties of lin...