Attitudes are alive and well and gainfully employed in the sphere of action.

A Theory of Cognitive Dissonance

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1954 • 13,437 citations

Attribution theory in social psychology

1967 • 3,501 citations

Self-perception: An alternative interpretation of cognitive dissonance phenomena.

1967 • 2,877 citations

The Functional Approach to the Study of Attitudes

1960 • 2,849 citations

Readings in Attitude Theory and Measurement

1968 • 2,137 citations

Attitudes versus Actions: The Relationship of Verbal and Overt Behavioral Responses to Attitude Objects

1969 • 2,132 citations

Processes of Opinion Change

1961 • 2,067 citations

Beliefs, Attitudes, and Values.

1969 • 1,896 citations

Social Judgment: Assimilation and Contrast Effects in Communication and Attitude Change

1981 • 1,852 citations

Attitudes vs. Actions

1934 • 1,637 citations

Explorations in cognitive dissonance.

1962 • 1,089 citations

The prediction of behavior from attitudinal and normative variables

1970 • 816 citations

Opinions and Personality

1957 • 735 citations

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2004 • 494 citations

Reconciling conflicting results derived from experimental and survey studies of attitude change.

1959 • 443 citations

The influence of role playing on opinion change.

1954 • 441 citations

Explorations in Cognitive Dissonance.

1963 • 383 citations

Interracial Housing: A Psychological Evaluation of a Social Experiment

1951 • 302 citations

Attitude as an Interactional Concept: Social Constraint and Social Distance as Intervening Variables Between Attitudes and Action

1969 • 230 citations

The Effects of Changes in Roles on the Attitudes of Role Occupants

1956 • 192 citations

Comparison of the Effectiveness of Improvised Versus Non-Improvised Role-Playing in Producing Opinion Changes

1956 • 190 citations

The influence of incentive conditions on the success of role playing in modifying attitudes.

1965 • 168 citations

Verbal Attitudes and Overt Acts: An Experiment on the Salience of Attitudes

1958 • 165 citations

Attitude Change as a Function of Response Restriction

1953 • 133 citations

Attitude, voice, and behavior: A repressed affect model of interracial interaction.

1972 • 132 citations

Verbal Attitudes and Overt Behavior: A Study of Racial Discrimination

1965 • 117 citations

Counter-norm attitudes induced by consonant vs. dissonant conditions of role-playing.

1965 • 64 citations

Social psychology and desegregation research.

1961 • 56 citations

The Social Psychology of Prejudice

1955 • 56 citations

On the irrelevance of the classical negative evidence concerning the effect of attitudes on behavior.

1973 • 43 citations

Attitude and Action: A Field Experiment Joined to a General Population Survey

1973 • 38 citations