Ajzen, Icek,

Understanding attitudes and predicting social behavior / Understanding attitudes and predicting social behaviour Icek Ajzen, Martin Fishbein. - Pbk. edition. - x, 278 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Attitudes and behavior -- How to define and measure behavior -- Predicting behavior from intention -- Determinants of behavioral intentions -- Determinants of the attitudinal and normative components -- Theretical implications -- Predicting and understanding weight loss: Intentions, behaviors, and outcomes -- Predicting and understanding women's occupational orientations: Factors underlying choice intentions -- Predicting and understanding family planning behaviors: Beliefs, attitudes, and intentions -- Predicting and understanding consumer behavior: Attitude-behavior correspondence -- Predicting and understanding voting in American elections: Effects of external variables -- Predicting and understanding voting in British elections and American referenda: Illustrations of the theory's generality -- Changing the behavior of alcoholics: Effects of persuasive communication.

0139364358 9780139364358 0139364439 9780139364433

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Attitude (Psychology)
Prediction (Psychology)
Social psychology.
Psychology, Social
Social Behavior

BF323.C5 / A37

301.1 302