Indeterminate theory: Reply to Gollob.

Anderson, Norman H.

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“…In a second experiment social desirability (virtuousness) and competence were shown to underlie the admirableness judgment. Gollob (1979) and N. H. Anderson (1979) authored two parts of a heated and instructive exchange concerning the merits of the subject-verb-object approach. The level of discourse in this exchange is remarkably sophisticated, but accessible, and it exemplifi es the discussion of methodological and theoretical issues in the context of a well-specified theoretical approach.…”

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Social Inference

Hastie¹

1983

Annu. Rev. Psychol.

104

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Social Inference

Hastie¹

1983

Annu. Rev. Psychol.

104

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“…Among the provocative issues that have arisen and still deserve more research is the 'assertion constant' hypothesis that when an assertion's verb links a subject and object any evaluation incongruity is resolved by changing the object more than the subject. Also deserving further investigation are the issues, when such structures are analysed into orthogonal main and interaction components, regarding which components are of greater psychological importance (Gollob, 1974;Anderson, 1979;Wyer and Carlston, 1979). Most provocative would be research on ecology of verbs that might segregate verbs into subdomains among which different structural and functioning laws obtain (Heider, 1958;Kanouse and Abelson, 1967;Schank and Riesbeck, 1981;McGuire, McGuire, and Cheever, 1986).…”

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The vicissitudes of attitudes and similar representational constructs in twentieth century psychology

McGuire

1986

Euro J Social Psych

177

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'Attitudes' has been the central concept of social psychology in three differentAttitude has been the dominant social psychology concept in three different periods, exercising hegemony over the discipline's imagination for more accrued time than any other concept, even 'groups'. Early commentators as disparate as sociologists Thomas and Znaniecki (1918) and behaviourist J. B. Watson (1925) considered the concept so central that they defined social psychology as the study of attitudes, and Kurt Goldstein (1934/1939) even equated being human with the capacity to form and use attitudes. Although always an important focus of social psychological research, attitudes' dominance within the discipline has fluctuated considerably over the decades so that during the twentieth century it has emerged as the cutting edge of social psychology at three separate periods, each time centred

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“…This postscript is a rejoinder to the immediately following article by Anderson (1979). The preceding part of the present article directly responds to every major criticism Anderson (1977) presented in his original critique of the S-V-O formulation.…”

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“…The preceding part of the present article directly responds to every major criticism Anderson (1977) presented in his original critique of the S-V-O formulation. Anderson's (1979) article on the other hand, does not attempt to rebut the points made above; it merely repeats a few of the many questionable claims Anderson made in his original paper. This postscript considers (a) Anderson's shift of emphasis away from technical issues, (.b) Anderson's insistence that weights obtained from S-V-O analyses be applied to single sentences, whereas Gollob has specifically said that they apply to item sets, and (c) Anderson's claims concerning goodness of fit.…”

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A reply to Norman H. Anderson's critique of the Subject-Verb-Object approach to social cognition.

Gollob

1979

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

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The Subject-Verb-Object (S-V-O) approach to social cognition provides a method of conceptualizing several social cognition problems within the context of item sets that contain eight subject-verb-object sentences, such as "The kind man avoided the intelligent swindler" and "Conservative voters enjoy golf." Anderson recently criticized the S-V-O model on numerous grounds that were primarily technical in nature. The present reply refutes all of Anderson's major criticisms. In discussing an alternative to the S-V-O model, Anderson recommends that problems raised by the pervasive tendency of subjects to respond to information configurally be dealt with by collecting data that can be described by simple algebraic models. It is argued that Anderson's alternative avoids, rather than deals with, the important issues raised by the configural responding of subjects. Although the specific content of the present article is primarily concerned with the S-V-O model, much of the discussion is relevant to issues of general importance to investigators who use analysis of variance models and/or simple algebraic models in their work. A postscript replies to the article by Anderson that follows this one. Anderson (1977) recently wrote a detailed critique of Gollob's (1974aGollob's ( , 1974b Subject-Verb-Object (S-V-O) approach to social cognition as well as of and Insko, Songer, and McGarvey's (1974) applications of that approach. Wyer and his co-workers (Wyer, 1974, 197S; Wyer, Henninger, & Wolfson, 197S) have extended Gollob's model and have applied it in a broad variety of areas concerned with social inference and attribution theory. Insko et al. applied the S-V-O model to the analysis of pleasantness judg-

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Indeterminate theory: Reply to Gollob.

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The vicissitudes of attitudes and similar representational constructs in twentieth century psychology

A reply to Norman H. Anderson's critique of the Subject-Verb-Object approach to social cognition.

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