Notwithstanding a recent flurry of organizational research on the construct of “situational
strength,” research on the other side of the coin—“personality strength”—has rarely been …

Online review sites provide increasingly important sources of information in tourism product
purchases. We tested experimentally how source, content style, and peripheral credibility …

Leadership is one of the most examined factors in relation to understanding employee well-
being and performance. While there are disparate approaches to studying leadership, they …

Welcome to the third edition of The Psychology of Attitudes & Attitude Change. As you would
expect, this edition contains many new developments. As a starting point, Bas Verplanken …

Five experiments investigated the hypothesis that perspective taking—actively
contemplating others' psychological experiences—attenuates automatic expressions of …

Social media brands may experience a lack of competitiveness and attraction due to the
silent negative increase of customers' need for uniqueness (NFU). This is the result of a …

Every day, thousands of polls, surveys, and rating scales are employed to elicit the attitudes
of humankind. Given the ubiquitous use of these instruments, it seems we ought to have firm …

Spiral of silence theory does not assume a simple relationship between opinion climate and
opinion expression. In fact, the notion of hardcore individuals (who express their opinions …

Cross-group friendships (the most effective form of direct contact) and extended contact (ie,
knowing ingroup members who have outgroup friends) constitute two of the most important …

Based on research regarding the role of attitudinal ambivalence in the validity of attitudes in
predicting behavior, we propose job ambivalence as a promising concept for job satisfaction …