The Psychology of Attitudes and Attitude Change

About Bas VerplankenGeoffrey HaddockGregory R. Maio

Gregory R. Maio is Head of Department of Psychology at the University of Bath UK.  He is interested in social values (e.g. equality freedom helpfulness) attitudes and emotional processes. Gregorys principal interests at the moment are projects examining psychological connections between values and behaviour (including the adoption of a healthy lifestyle) and adult mental representations of children. Professor of Social Psychology at the University of Bath. My research is in the broader domain of attitudes and attitude-behavior relations. I have a particular interst in habits (both behavioral and mental habits) values the self and self-regulation. I apply these interests in areas such as health consumer and environmental behavior. http://www.bath.ac.uk/profiles/faculty-of-humanities-social-sciences-director-of-doctoral-studies-bas-verplanken/ Geoffrey Haddock is Professor of Psychology at Cardiff University UK. His primary area of research is the psychology of attitudes.  Within this area he has a number of research interests including: (a) the role of affective and cognitive processes in attitudes (b) the impact on mindfulness on attitudes and attitude change (c) how individual differences influence attitude processes (d) the implicit and explicit measurement of attitudes and attitudinal components and (e) how reading persuasive material in different media formats influences attitudes and attitude change.  Other research helps to understand how social values get translated into action. This research is being undertaken in collaboration with colleagues in the Values in Action (ViA) Centre at Cardiff University. http://psych.cf.ac.uk/contactsandpeople/haddockgg.php