Despite the widespread use of exploratory factor analysis in psychological research,
researchers often make questionable decisions when conducting these analyses. This …

▪ Abstract We review empirical and conceptual developments over the past four years (1992–
1995) on attitudes and persuasion. A voluminous amount of material was produced …

For any given covariance structure model, there will often be alternative models that are
indistinguishable from the original model in terms of goodness of fit to data. The existence of …

Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) has played a major role in research conducted in the
social sciences for more than 100 years, dating back to the pioneering work of Spearman on …

Despite renewed interest in the affective and cognitive properties of attitudes, assessment of
these constructs is plagued by a number of problems. Some techniques for overcoming …

Two experiments were conducted to examine whether attitudes based on affect or cognition
were more susceptible to persuasive appeals that matched versus mismatched the basis of …

Throughout its history in social psychology, the attitude construct has been defined in myriad
ways. Core to most definitions has been that attitudes reflect evaluations of objects on a …

The role of properties of attitude-relevant knowledge in attitude-behavior consistency was
explored in 3 experiments. In Experiment 1, attitudes based on behaviorally relevant …

The circumplex model of affect has been among the most widely studied representations of
affect. Despite the considerable evidence cited in support of it, methods typically used to …

In Herzog's (1993) in-depth interviews with animal rights activists, respondents were
strikingly consistent in describing their involvement in the movement as the central focus of …