Evaluative conditioning in social psychology: Facts and speculations

@article{citeulike:91309, abstract = {The aim of the present paper is to examine the contribution of evaluative conditioning (EC) to attitude formation theory in social psychology. This aim is pursued on two fronts. First, evaluative conditioning is analysed for its relevance to social psychological research. We show that conditioned attitudes can be acquired through simple co-occurrences of a neutral and a valenced stimulus. Moreover, we argue that conditioned attitudes are not confined to direct contact with a valenced stimulus, but can be formed and dynamically reformed indirectly, through association chains. Second, social research is examined in an effort to identify evaluative learning mechanisms. We suggest that several important phenomena in social psychology (e.g., ingroup favouritism, prejudice, name letter effect) are at least partly due to simple mechanisms of evaluative learning. The implications for attitude formation theory and for applied settings are discussed.}, author = {Walther, Eva and Nagengast, Benjamin and Trasselli, Claudia }, citeulike-article-id = {91309}, doi = {10.1080/02699930441000274}, issn = {0269-9931}, journal = {Cognition and Emotion}, keywords = {attitudes, conditioning, evaluation, evaluative-conditioning}, number = {2}, pages = {175--196}, posted-at = {2005-02-23 18:15:34}, priority = {2}, publisher = {Psychology Press, part of the Taylor \& Francis Group}, title = {Evaluative conditioning in social psychology: Facts and speculations}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02699930441000274}, volume = {19}, year = {2005} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:91309 L3 - citeulike-article-id:91309 TI - Evaluative conditioning in social psychology: Facts and speculations JF - Cognition and Emotion VL - 19 IS - 2 SP - 175 EP - 196 PB - Psychology Press, part of the Taylor & Francis Group SN - 0269-9931 N2 - The aim of the present paper is to examine the contribution of evaluative conditioning (EC) to attitude formation theory in social psychology. This aim is pursued on two fronts. First, evaluative conditioning is analysed for its relevance to social psychological research. We show that conditioned attitudes can be acquired through simple co-occurrences of a neutral and a valenced stimulus. Moreover, we argue that conditioned attitudes are not confined to direct contact with a valenced stimulus, but can be formed and dynamically reformed indirectly, through association chains. Second, social research is examined in an effort to identify evaluative learning mechanisms. We suggest that several important phenomena in social psychology (e.g., ingroup favouritism, prejudice, name letter effect) are at least partly due to simple mechanisms of evaluative learning. The implications for attitude formation theory and for applied settings are discussed. KW - attitudes KW - conditioning KW - evaluation KW - evaluative-conditioning AU - Walther, Eva AU - Nagengast, Benjamin AU - Trasselli, Claudia PY - 2005/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02699930441000274 ER -