TY - JOUR
T1 - The development of interattitudinal consistency
T2 - The shared-consequences model
AU - Lavine, Howard
AU - Thomsen, Cynthia J.
AU - Gonzales, Marti Hope
PY - 1997/4
Y1 - 1997/4
N2 - A model of interattitudinal consistency was proposed to address: (a) the factors mediating political expert-novice differences in interattitudinal organization and (b) the processes mediating the development of interattitudinal organization among political novices. In Experiment 1, both expertise and situationally induced thought (among novices) heightened the extent to which pairs of policies were viewed as instrumentally influencing the attainment of a common set of values, which in turn influenced the structural balance of participants' attitudes. Moreover, both expertise and thought (among experts) heightened the ideological consistency of participants' attitudes. In Experiment 2, thought related to values or implicational relations increased the structural balance of novices' attitudes, whereas ideology-related thought increased the ideological consistency of experts' attitudes. Discussion focuses on a general consequences-based model of interattitudinal structure.
AB - A model of interattitudinal consistency was proposed to address: (a) the factors mediating political expert-novice differences in interattitudinal organization and (b) the processes mediating the development of interattitudinal organization among political novices. In Experiment 1, both expertise and situationally induced thought (among novices) heightened the extent to which pairs of policies were viewed as instrumentally influencing the attainment of a common set of values, which in turn influenced the structural balance of participants' attitudes. Moreover, both expertise and thought (among experts) heightened the ideological consistency of participants' attitudes. In Experiment 2, thought related to values or implicational relations increased the structural balance of novices' attitudes, whereas ideology-related thought increased the ideological consistency of experts' attitudes. Discussion focuses on a general consequences-based model of interattitudinal structure.
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U2 - 10.1037/0022-3514.72.4.735
DO - 10.1037/0022-3514.72.4.735
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0031506539
SN - 0022-3514
VL - 72
SP - 735
EP - 749
JO - Journal of personality and social psychology
JF - Journal of personality and social psychology
IS - 4
ER -