Rethinking attitudes and social psychology - Issues of function, order, and combination in subject-side and object-side assessments in natural settings

• Published in: Qualitative research in psychology Vol. 17; no. 3; pp. 336 - 356
• Main Authors: Potter, Jonathan, Hepburn, Alexa, Edwards, Derek
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Routledge 02.07.2020; Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Subjects: assessment combinations; assessment function; Assessments; Attitudes; conversation analysis; discursive psychology; functional attitude theory; object-side; Social psychology; social psychology methods; subject-side

This paper overviews limitations in both the way attitude function has been conceptualized in social psychology, and in the empirical basis for the claims made. We suggest that the premise that attitudes are expressed for cognitive/motivational reasons is an untested artefact of the methodological p...