Working Knowledge and Attitude Strength: An Information-Processing Analysis

By Richard E. Petty, J. Krosnick. 2014

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Knowledge of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and attitudes toward teaching children with ADHD: THE role of teaching experience (2012, background): “The greater the extent of people’s knowledge and the more experience they have with an issue, the more information available to them to guide their evaluations and behavior and, thus, their attitudes are stronger (Eagly & Chaiken, 1998; Wood et al., 1995).”
A Review and Conceptual Framework for Understanding Personalized Matching Effects in Persuasion (2020, background): “, 2008; Thompson & Hamilton, 2006), which enhances people’s ability to elaborate on the message (Wood et al., 1995; Wu & Shaffer, 1987).”
Key factors driving attitudes towards large mammals in conflict with humans (2014, background): “Working knowledge, defined as the information a person has at their disposal when evaluating or processing information about an object or issue (Wood et al., 1995) may be relevant for HWC.”
Making it moral: Merely labeling an attitude as moral increases its strength (2016, unknown): “…ﬁ dently held (Rucker, Tormala, Petty, & Briñol, 2014), ambivalent (Armitage & Conner, 2000), accessible (Fazio, 1995), rated as important (Eaton & Visser, 2008), based on high knowledge (Wood, Rhodes, & Biek, 1995), or resulted from considerable message-relevant thinking (Barden & Petty, 2008).”
Tell Me What I Did Wrong: Experts Seek and Respond to Negative Feedback (2012, background): “For example, people seek positive information about products they are already using because such information provides positive feedback that confirms their choices (Ahluwalia, Burnkrant, and Unnava 2000; see also Wood, Rhodes, and Biek 1995).”
Persuasion in crowdfunding: An elaboration likelihood model of crowdfunding performance (2017, background): “Context-specific knowledge garnered through past experience (Wood et al., 1995), provides the cognitive foundation that enables one to engage in cognitively rigorous elaboration (Petty and Cacioppo, 1986; Petty and Wegener, 1998).”