Nina Dickel

• alumni at Bielefeld University

Associating minority influence with informational influence and majority influence with normative influence strongly resembles the distinction between the superficial processing of “cue” information (e.g., minority status) and the effortful processing of “content” information (e.g., message arguments) by dual-process models of persuasion. As minori...

The authors propose a framework distinguishing two types of lateral attitude change (LAC): (1) generalization effects, where attitude change toward a focal object transfers to related objects, and (2) displacement effects, where only related attitudes change but the focal attitude does not change. They bring together examples of LAC from various do...

5. Conclusion In conclusion, we argue that – as persuasion research has cross-fertilized research on minority and majority influence – new methodological and theoretical paradigms in attitude research have the potential to generate new insights into minority and majority influence processes. Applying implicit measures of attitude to majority and mi...

Attitudes and attitude change remain core topics of contemporary social psychology. This selective review emphasizes work published from 2005 to 2009. It addresses constructionist and stable-entity conceptualizations of attitude, the distinction between implicit and explicit measures of attitude, and implications of the foregoing for attitude chang...