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Ya Hui Michelle See1, Richard E Petty, Leandre R Fabrigar
1Department of Psychology, National University of Singapore, 9 Arts Link, S(117 570), Singapore. psysyhm@nus.edu.sg
This study introduces meta-bases and structural bases to explain how people process affective versus cognitive information in attitudes. Findings reveal how these bases influence processing speed under different conditions, impacting attitude formation.
Area of Science:
- Psychology
- Cognitive Science
- Social Psychology
Background:
- Attitudes are influenced by both affective (emotion-based) and cognitive (logic-based) information.
- Understanding how individuals prioritize and process these different information types is crucial for attitude research.
Purpose of the Study:
- To propose and test the concepts of meta-bases and structural bases in affective-cognitive attitude processing.
- To investigate how processing interest (meta-bases) and efficiency (structural bases) influence information processing speed.
Main Methods:
- Three studies examined the relationship between meta-bases, structural bases, and reading times for affective and cognitive information.
- Processing speed was manipulated by varying constraints on deliberative resource allocation.
Main Results:
- Higher affective meta-bases correlated with longer affective reading times when processing efficiency was constant.
- Higher affective structural bases correlated with shorter affective reading times when deliberation was constrained.
- Both meta-bases and structural bases showed effects when deliberation was neither encouraged nor constrained.
Conclusions:
- Meta-bases capture the subjective reliance on affect versus cognition for processing interest.
- Structural bases capture the evaluative congruence of attitudes with affect versus cognition for processing efficiency.
- These bases offer a framework for understanding affective-cognitive processing in attitudes.
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