Accession Number:

AD0647210

Title:

AN INQUIRY INTO THE STRUCTURE OF ATTITUDES AND BEHAVIOR: A VALIDATION STUDY.

Descriptive Note:

Technical rept.,

Corporate Author:

ILLINOIS UNIV URBANA GROUP EFFECTIVENESS RESEARCH LAB

Personal Author(s):

• Naidoo,Josephine C.

Report Date:

1966-08-01

Pagination or Media Count:

31.0

Abstract:

An attempt was made to predict the behavior of one hundred and sixty naive White female Ss in an interaction situation with Negro and White confederates of the experimenter from two attitude instruments, the Behavioral Differential Triandis, 1964 and the Semantic Differential Osgood et al., 1957. These instruments probe the conative and affective components of attitude respectively.

Descriptors:

• *ATTITUDES(PSYCHOLOGY)
• *BEHAVIOR
• APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY
• APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY
• PREDICTIONS
• GROUP DYNAMICS
• INTERACTIONS
• PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS
• REASONING
• SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY
• ACCEPTABILITY

Subject Categories:

• Psychology

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE