The Information Processing Effects of Attitude Importance

本研究旨在探讨政治情境中态度重要性对人们行为的影响。态度重要性(1)是否影响人们将自己暴露在一个问题的各个方面的意愿(2)影响他们形成认知组织结构的能力，通过这些结构他们可能整合大量信息(3)影响人们对他人态度极端的看法。所有这些问题都对理解人们的信仰如何影响他们的行为产生了影响。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，可能有一些重要的东西要说。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处理的方式上。

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.