Building on the growing literature that views organizations as complex adaptive systems, this paper proposes a general model to analyze the relationship between organizational context and attitudes. In particular, we focus on how the system of formal and informal communication channels that characterize an organization and the timing of information flows affect the dynamic process of attitude c...

Purpose – Many education for sustainable development (ESD) programs are designed to change attitudes and values toward the natural environment. However, psychological research indicates that several factors in addition to attitude influence behavior, including contextual support, social norms, action difficulty, and habitual behavior. Thus, if attitude change is to translate into altered behavi...

Two hypotheses about the relation between age and susceptibility to attitude change were tested. The impressionable years hypothesis proposes that individuals are highly susceptible to attitude change during late adolescence and early adulthood and that susceptibility drops precipitously immediately thereafter and remains low throughout the rest of the life cycle. The increasing persistence hyp...

In this review, we focus on social psychological studies of influence-research in which the goal is to bring about change in another person or oneself. Although many constructs can be targeted for change (e.g., beliefs, behaviors), we focus on attitudes (people's general evaluations of people, objects, and issues) because attitudes often serve a key mediational role in behavior change (i.e., at...

T he relationship of action to attitude change has been a central and recurrent theme ill my work ever since my doctoral dissertation (Kelman, 1953). I have written several theoretical papers on this issue over the years (Kelman, 1¢2a, 1974a, I974b, 1978), and during the 19605 several colleagues and I were engaged in an experimental pflJgram on the relationship of discrepant action and attitude...

OVERVIEW The O.J. Simpson " trial of the century " in the mid-1990s captured the attention of the American populace more than any other public spectacle since the kidnaping of the Lindberg baby in the 1920s. A prominent football player and popular sportscaster was charged with a gruesome double homicide. The attorneys for the prosecution and defense were of various races and genders. The eviden...

M edical student attitudes toward psychiatry form the foundation of their future interactions with psychiatric patients and their decision-making process regarding pursuing psychiatry as a career (1). Related studies have identified positive views overall, but some degree of stigma against psychiatry still persists among students (2 5). Psychiatric educators have been aware of this finding for ...