This review covers research on attitudes and attitude change published between 2010 and
2017. We characterize this period as one of significant progress toward an understanding of …

Language helps people communicate and think. Precise and accurate language would
seem best suited to achieve these goals. But a close look at the way people actually talk …

Welcome to the third edition of The Psychology of Attitudes & Attitude Change. As you would
expect, this edition contains many new developments. As a starting point, Bas Verplanken …

Psychological distance and abstraction both represent key variables of considerable interest
to researchers across cognitive, social, and developmental psychology. Moreover, largely …

When faced with hardship, how do we emotionally appraise the situation? Although many
factors contribute to our reasoning about hardships, in this article we focus on the role of …

Cancer health information is dominated by enemy and war metaphors intended to motivate
the public to “fight” cancer. However, enemy metaphoric framing may influence …

Effects of metaphorical framing of political issues on opinion have been studied widely by
two approaches: a critical-discourse approach (CDA) and a response-elicitation approach …

This study focuses on media framings of COVID‐19 in Chinese social and cultural contexts.
After analysing nine weeks' news reports of Xinwen Lianbo, one of China's mainstream …

The visual design of food packages can activate heuristic inferences which in turn shape
consumer perception and judgment of salient content. Focusing on two core design …

We learn in grade school that metaphor is an ornamental figure of speech reserved for
poets. But we now know that it is also a key strategy people use to make sense of the world …