The role of belief accessibility in attitude formation

The importance of survey content: Testing for the context dependency of the New Ecological Paradigm Scale

“…When responding to attitudinal questions, respondents may engage in satisficing behavior (Krosnick, 1991;Krosnick and Alwin, 1987) by choosing an acceptable answer, rather than the answer that accurately reflects their value orientations or attitudes. Prior information or items in a survey may lead respondents to draw on readily accessible-rather than complete-value orientations or attitudes (Roskos-Ewoldsen and Fazio, 1997;Tourangeau et al, 1989;Tourangeau and Rasinski, 1988), thereby priming responses to subsequent items in the survey. Survey context may also affect what respondents deem to be relevant and redundant in answering attitudinal questions (Tourangeau and Rasinski, 1988).…”

Proposed Conceptual Framework on Cohesive Effect of Extrinsic and Intrinsic Factors on Sustainable Behaviours

“…The persuasion message is revolved around bringing up a belief on a set of attributes associated with an attitude object. Therefore, the persuasion effect is to influence an individual to accept a set of beliefs about sustainable behaviours on the premise that the acceptance of the beliefs would generate a positive attitude toward sustainable behaviours (Esses & Maio, 2002;Roskos-Ewoldsen & Fazio, 1997). Miller and Peterson (2004) claimed that attitude is formulated based on psychological beliefs generated from performing certain behaviours, and the beliefs are varied among individuals with similar behaviours.…”

The MODE Model and Its Implications for Studying the Media

“…Fazio (1986) argued that attitudes can be thought of as existing on a continuum ranging from not available to automatically accessible from memory. At the low accessible end of the continuum is the situation where no attitude might exist in memory, primarily because an attitude has not been consolidated and stored in memory (Roskos-Ewoldsen & Fazio, 1997). As one moves along the continuum, an attitude has been consolidated in memory but may require cognitive energy and controlled processes to be activated from memory.…”