The Role of Attitude Accessibility in the Attitude-to-Behavior Process

Author: Fazio, R.H.; Powell, M.C.; Williams, C.J.

Description: Attitudes toward a number of products and the accessibility of those attitudes as indicated by the latency of response to an attitudinal inquiry were assessed. Subjects with highly accessible attitudes toward a given product displayed greater attitude-behavior correspondence than did those with relatively less accessible attitudes. Furthermore, subjects with less accessible attitudes displayed more sensitivity to the salience afforded a product by its position in the front row, as opposed to the back row, than did subjects with more accessible attitudes. The implications of these data for a model of the process by which attitudes guide behavior are discussed.

Subject headings: Attitudes; Accessibility; Behavior; Consumers;

Publication year: 1989

Journal or book title: Journal of Consumer Research

Volume: 16

Issue: 3

Pages: 280-288

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Type: Journal Article

Serial number: 1745