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Format of the course |
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Course overview |
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Political evaluation: Forming and expressing
positive and negative views of political objects. |
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Political judgment: Assessing the qualities and
characteristics of political objects. |
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Political decisions: choosing between two or
more alternatives. |
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Acquiring, processing, storing, and using
political information. |
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Relationships: how our social motives and goals
influence our politics. |
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Defining attitudes |
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The place of psychology in the study of
politics, and vice-versa. |
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The sight of the American flag fills me with
pride. |
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George W. Bush is not competent to be president. |
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I voted for Bill Clinton twice for president. |
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The government of Turkey is undemocratic. |
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I feel strongly that capital punishment is
terribly, terribly, wrong. |
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I am unhappy with the current welfare system. |
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Electric deregulation will lead to lower energy
prices for consumers. |
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An attitude is a mental or neural state of
readiness, organized through experience, exerting a directive or dynamic
influence upon the individual’s response to all objects and situations with
which it is related (Gordon W. Allport, 1935). |
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There is now widespread agreement among social
psychologists that the term attitude
should refer to a general and enduring positive or negative feeling
about some person, object, or issue (Petty and Cacioppo, 1981). |
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Attitude is a psychological tendency that is
expressed by evaluating a particular entity with some degree of favor or
disfavor (Eagly and Chaiken, 1993). |
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Notes