Describe how our erroneous beliefs may generate their own reality. The availability heuristic and the news media. E-mail all of your answers to me. Nearly all Americans surveyed believe that eating healthy foods is extremely important, but everyday thousands of Big Macs are consumed. How can we possess such convictions and be so hypocritical.
Attitudes can be personal and share a collective commonality.
They can have a profound effect on social policy. Since many Americans believe that drugs and crime are two of the greatest ills of our society, we as a nation have aggressively attempted to thwart their existence through incarceration. Citizens of The United States, however, have the strongest attitudes in the world toward freedom, expression of individuality, the right to choose your own path of life. This section will at the formation of attitudes, their impact on behavior, how they change, and how individuals deal with incongruencies between attitudes and behaviors. Identify the components of an attitude.