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Understanding attitudes and predicting social behavior

Icek Ajzen, Martin Fishbein (Author)
Print Book, English, ©1980
Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, N.J., ©1980
x, 278 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780139364433, 9780139364358, 0139364439, 0139364358
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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
Theoretical 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
Includes indexes
ISBN 0-13-936435-8 Pbk: £5.80.