The Information Processing Effects of Attitude Importance

本研究关注的是态度重要性对人们在政治环境中的行为的影响。态度的重要性是否(1)影响人们接触一个问题的所有方面的意愿(2)影响他们形成认知组织结构的能力，通过这种结构他们可能会整合大量的信息(3)影响人们对他人态度极端的看法？所有这些问题对理解人们的信仰如何影响他们的行为都有影响。这项研究的重点是政治态度，因此，关于认知影响政治行为的方式，可能有一些重要的事情要说。这项工作具有重要的理论意义，因为它集中在态度重要性影响信息加工的方式上。

This research is focused on the effects of attitude importance on people's actions in political contexts. Does attitude importance (1) affect people's willingness to expose themselves to all sides of an issue (2) influence their ability to form cognitive organizational structures through which they might integrate large masses of information (3) affect people's views of the extremity of other's attitudes. All of these issues have implications for understanding the manner in which people's beliefs affect their behavior. The research is focused on political attitudes, and as such, may have some important things to say about the manner in which cognition influences political behavior. The work has important theoretical implications, focused as it is on the manner in which attitude importance affects the processing of information.