Stan A Kaplowitz
Biographic Data
| ID | 649911 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stan A Kaplowitz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stan A |
| FAMILY NAME | Kaplowitz |
| SIGNATURE | KAPLOWITZ S A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Michigan State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9066-0314 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 111 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1971 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Energy Conservation Behaviors, Climate Change Attitudes, Income, and Behavioral Plasticity
Family economic status, cultural capital, and academic achievement: The case of Taiwan
Behavioral and Environmental Explanations of Elevated Blood Lead Levels in Immigrant Children and Children of Immigrants
Confirmatory factor analysis of a questionnaire measuring control in parental feeding practices in mothers of Head Start children
The Comparative Statics and Dynamics of Beliefs: The Effect of Message Discrepancy and Source Credibility
Two models of belief change, Laroche's (1977) comparative statics model and the single-push with friction dynamic model (Kaplowitz, Fink, & Bauer, 1983), were combined and tested. Beliefs about two issues (criminal sentencing and tuition increase) were measured every 77 ms, N=95. Eleven time points from each participant's belief trajectory were analyzed. Message discrepancy and source credibility were manipulated. As predicted, belief change mono…
Perceptions of Economic and Behavioral Differences Between Blacks and Whites: Racial Attitudes of White Americans and Status Generalization
A telephone survey of Michigan residents provided statistics about the economic conditions and undesirable behavior of white Americans and asked respondents to estimate the corresponding statistics for blacks. Data from white respondents showed that the greater the perceived racial difference (PRD) in rates of undesirable behavior, the more blacks were seen as not trying to better themselves and the less blacks were viewed as experiencing discrim…
The Effects of Physician Empathy on Patient Satisfaction and Compliance
The present study attempted to develop new scales of patient-perceived, empathy-related constructs and to test a model of the relationships of physician empathy and related constructs to patient satisfaction and compliance. Five hundred fifty outpatients at a large university hospital in Korea were interviewed with the questionnaire. The data were analyzed using structural equation modeling. Patient-perceived physician empathy significantly influ…
The semantics of social influence: Threats vs. persuasion
This study investigates how language is used to make sense of influence attempts. More specifically, the perceived potency and evaluation of both influence agents and targets and the influence tactic used are examined for their effect on the actors' perceived power and influence success. The two influence tactics examined are threats and attempts to persuade. A pilot study (N=145) and main experiment (N=189) were conducted to create 84 simple sen…
How Accurate Are Perceptions of Social Statistics about Blacks and Whites
Journal Article How Accurate Are Perceptions of Social Statistics about Blacks and Whites? Effects of Race and Education Get access STAN A. KAPLOWITZ, STAN A. KAPLOWITZ Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar BRADLEY J. FISHER, BRADLEY J. FISHER Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar CLIFFORD L. BROMAN CLIFFORD L. BROMAN Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Go…
Minority Influence
Attributional Biases in Individualistic and Collectivistic Cultures: A Comparison of Americans with Saudis
Saad Said A. Al-Zahrani, Stan A. Kaplowitz, Attributional Biases in Individualistic and Collectivistic Cultures: A Comparison of Americans with Saudis, Social Psychology Quarterly, Vol. 56, No. 3 (Sep., 1993), pp. 223-233
Disentangling the Effects of Discrepant and Disconfirming Information
Stan A. Kaplowitz, Edward L. Fink, James Mulcrone, David Atkin, Saleh Dabil, Disentangling the Effects of Discrepant and Disconfirming Information, Social Psychology Quarterly, Vol. 54, No. 3 (Sep., 1991), pp. 191-207
The State of Social Psychology: Issues, Themes and Controversies
Assessment of the Use of Self-Referent Concepts for the Measurement of Cognition and Affect
Message discrepancy and the persistence of attitude change: Implications of an information integration model
Incongruity in Humor: The Cognitive Dynamics
A dynamic model of the effect of discrepant information on unidimensional attitude change
A differential equation model of the attitude change process is proposed which considers an individual's attitude as affected by discrepant messages along a unidimen-sional continuum. The model posits two dynamic components: translation to a new equilibrium due to the impulsive force of the message, and oscillation around the moving equilibrium due, in part, to restoring forces resisting displacement from equilibrium. An experiment to test some o…
Positional discrepancy, psychological discrepancy, and attitude change: Experimental tests of some mathematical models 1
Conflicting models of the attitude change process were tested in two experiments. The simple linear balance model predicts that the amount of attitude change induced by a message is proportional to the discrepancy between the respondent's original position and the position advocated. The psychological‐discrepancy‐discounting model assumes that as messages become more psychologically discrepant from one's position, they lose their effectiveness in…
Anonymity, Strength of Attitude, and the Influence of Public Opinion Polls
Subjects were given questionnaires asking their responses to six statements on public issues. On some of the issues subjects were highly committed to their own views, while other issues were selected for the subjects' lack of knowledge and commitment. Some subjects were asked to respond anonymously, and others were led to believe that their responses would be made public. Each questionnaire contained a bogus distribution of responses from student…
Attitude Change and Attitudinal Trajectories: A Dynamic Multidimensional Theory
(1982). Attitude Change and Attitudinal Trajectories: A Dynamic Multidimensional Theory. Annals of the International Communication Association: Vol. 6, Communication Yearbook 6, pp. 364-394
Reply to Rabinovich and McGregor
Journal Article Reply to Rabinovich and McGregor Get access STAN A. KAPLOWITZ, STAN A. KAPLOWITZ Michigan State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar VLADIMIR SHLAPENTOKH VLADIMIR SHLAPENTOKH Michigan State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Public Opinion Quarterly, Volume 46, Issue 2, SUMMER 1982, Pages 285–287, https://doi.org/10.1086/268720 Publishe…
Possible Falsification of Survey Data: An Analysis of a Mail Survey in the Soviet Union
Analysis of data from a mall survey in the Soviet Union, carried out by the agency responsible for the distribution of America Illustrated, strongly suggests that the data were falsified. Information about Soviet society (including the results of a number of other surveys of the Soviet population) and probability theory were used to generate a set of expected results for this survey. The actual results differed dramatically from the expected—the …
Towards a Systematic Theory of Power Attribution
The Influence of Moral Considerations on the Perceived Consequences of an Action
It is proposed that the need to believe in a just world influences the subjective probabilities a person assigns to various outcomes. That is, moral actions will be thought likely to receive rewards, and immoral actions will be thought likely to be punished. This was tested with both survey data and an experiment. The survey data showed that respondents who saw civil rights tactics as violent (immoral) saw them as self-defeating, while those who …
Attitudinal Conformity and Anonymity
Past research has shown that surveillance, unanimity of others, and ambiguous stimuli all contribute to conformity. This study sought to determine whether people will conform to a group they identify with even in the absence of all three contributing conditions. Using college students as subjects, the researcher posed as a pollster asking for responses to six statements on public issues. The falsified results of an earlier "national college sampl…
A dynamic model of the effect of discrepant information on unidimensional attitude change
A differential equation model of the attitude change process is proposed which considers an individual's attitude as affected by discrepant messages along a unidimen-sional continuum. The model posits two dynamic components: translation to a new equilibrium due to the impulsive force of the message, and oscillation around the moving equilibrium due, in part, to restoring forces resisting displacement from equilibrium. An experiment to test some o…
Positional discrepancy, psychological discrepancy, and attitude change: Experimental tests of some mathematical models 1
Conflicting models of the attitude change process were tested in two experiments. The simple linear balance model predicts that the amount of attitude change induced by a message is proportional to the discrepancy between the respondent's original position and the position advocated. The psychological‐discrepancy‐discounting model assumes that as messages become more psychologically discrepant from one's position, they lose their effectiveness in…
Confirmatory factor analysis of a questionnaire measuring control in parental feeding practices in mothers of Head Start children
The Comparative Statics and Dynamics of Beliefs: The Effect of Message Discrepancy and Source Credibility
Two models of belief change, Laroche's (1977) comparative statics model and the single-push with friction dynamic model (Kaplowitz, Fink, & Bauer, 1983), were combined and tested. Beliefs about two issues (criminal sentencing and tuition increase) were measured every 77 ms, N=95. Eleven time points from each participant's belief trajectory were analyzed. Message discrepancy and source credibility were manipulated. As predicted, belief change mono…
Attributional Biases in Individualistic and Collectivistic Cultures: A Comparison of Americans with Saudis
Saad Said A. Al-Zahrani, Stan A. Kaplowitz, Attributional Biases in Individualistic and Collectivistic Cultures: A Comparison of Americans with Saudis, Social Psychology Quarterly, Vol. 56, No. 3 (Sep., 1993), pp. 223-233
Anonymity, Strength of Attitude, and the Influence of Public Opinion Polls
Subjects were given questionnaires asking their responses to six statements on public issues. On some of the issues subjects were highly committed to their own views, while other issues were selected for the subjects' lack of knowledge and commitment. Some subjects were asked to respond anonymously, and others were led to believe that their responses would be made public. Each questionnaire contained a bogus distribution of responses from student…
Towards a Systematic Theory of Power Attribution
Attitudinal Conformity and Anonymity
Past research has shown that surveillance, unanimity of others, and ambiguous stimuli all contribute to conformity. This study sought to determine whether people will conform to a group they identify with even in the absence of all three contributing conditions. Using college students as subjects, the researcher posed as a pollster asking for responses to six statements on public issues. The falsified results of an earlier "national college sampl…
How Accurate Are Perceptions of Social Statistics about Blacks and Whites
Journal Article How Accurate Are Perceptions of Social Statistics about Blacks and Whites? Effects of Race and Education Get access STAN A. KAPLOWITZ, STAN A. KAPLOWITZ Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar BRADLEY J. FISHER, BRADLEY J. FISHER Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar CLIFFORD L. BROMAN CLIFFORD L. BROMAN Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Go…
Using Aggregate Voting Data to Measure Presidential Coat-Tail Effects
Journal Article USING AGGREGATE VOTING DATA TO MEASURE PRESIDENTIAL COAT-TAIL EFFECTS Get access STAN KAPLOWITZ STAN KAPLOWITZ †The author is an instructor in the Department of Sociology at Michigan State University. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Public Opinion Quarterly, Volume 35, Issue 3, FALL 1971, Pages 415–419, https://doi.org/10.1086/267928 Published: 01 January 1971
Family economic status, cultural capital, and academic achievement: The case of Taiwan
Message discrepancy and the persistence of attitude change: Implications of an information integration model
The semantics of social influence: Threats vs. persuasion
This study investigates how language is used to make sense of influence attempts. More specifically, the perceived potency and evaluation of both influence agents and targets and the influence tactic used are examined for their effect on the actors' perceived power and influence success. The two influence tactics examined are threats and attempts to persuade. A pilot study (N=145) and main experiment (N=189) were conducted to create 84 simple sen…
Attitude Change and Attitudinal Trajectories: A Dynamic Multidimensional Theory
(1982). Attitude Change and Attitudinal Trajectories: A Dynamic Multidimensional Theory. Annals of the International Communication Association: Vol. 6, Communication Yearbook 6, pp. 364-394
An Experimental Test of a Rationalistic Theory of Deterrence
An experimental game tested a rationalistic theory of compliance to threats, which assumes the following: (1) The greater the credibility of the threat source the more compliant the target (subject). (2) The credibility of the threat source is determined by (a) the cost to the source of carrying out the threat and (b) the target's knowledge, or lack of knowledge, of the source's behavior in interacting with other threat targets. The theory was cl…
Disentangling the Effects of Discrepant and Disconfirming Information
Stan A. Kaplowitz, Edward L. Fink, James Mulcrone, David Atkin, Saleh Dabil, Disentangling the Effects of Discrepant and Disconfirming Information, Social Psychology Quarterly, Vol. 54, No. 3 (Sep., 1991), pp. 191-207
Possible Falsification of Survey Data: An Analysis of a Mail Survey in the Soviet Union
Analysis of data from a mall survey in the Soviet Union, carried out by the agency responsible for the distribution of America Illustrated, strongly suggests that the data were falsified. Information about Soviet society (including the results of a number of other surveys of the Soviet population) and probability theory were used to generate a set of expected results for this survey. The actual results differed dramatically from the expected—the …
The Influence of Moral Considerations on the Perceived Consequences of an Action
It is proposed that the need to believe in a just world influences the subjective probabilities a person assigns to various outcomes. That is, moral actions will be thought likely to receive rewards, and immoral actions will be thought likely to be punished. This was tested with both survey data and an experiment. The survey data showed that respondents who saw civil rights tactics as violent (immoral) saw them as self-defeating, while those who …
Using Aggregate Voting Data to Measure Presidential Coat-Tail Effects
Journal Article USING AGGREGATE VOTING DATA TO MEASURE PRESIDENTIAL COAT-TAIL EFFECTS Get access STAN KAPLOWITZ STAN KAPLOWITZ †The author is an instructor in the Department of Sociology at Michigan State University. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Public Opinion Quarterly, Volume 35, Issue 3, FALL 1971, Pages 415–419, https://doi.org/10.1086/267928 Published: 01 January 1971
An Experimental Test of a Rationalistic Theory of Deterrence
An experimental game tested a rationalistic theory of compliance to threats, which assumes the following: (1) The greater the credibility of the threat source the more compliant the target (subject). (2) The credibility of the threat source is determined by (a) the cost to the source of carrying out the threat and (b) the target's knowledge, or lack of knowledge, of the source's behavior in interacting with other threat targets. The theory was cl…
Coalition Theories and Cabinet Formations: A Study of Formal Theories of Coalition Formation Applied to Nine European Parliaments after 1918
The Influence of Moral Considerations on the Perceived Consequences of an Action
It is proposed that the need to believe in a just world influences the subjective probabilities a person assigns to various outcomes. That is, moral actions will be thought likely to receive rewards, and immoral actions will be thought likely to be punished. This was tested with both survey data and an experiment. The survey data showed that respondents who saw civil rights tactics as violent (immoral) saw them as self-defeating, while those who …
Attitudinal Conformity and Anonymity
Past research has shown that surveillance, unanimity of others, and ambiguous stimuli all contribute to conformity. This study sought to determine whether people will conform to a group they identify with even in the absence of all three contributing conditions. Using college students as subjects, the researcher posed as a pollster asking for responses to six statements on public issues. The falsified results of an earlier "national college sampl…
Towards a Systematic Theory of Power Attribution
Attitude Change and Attitudinal Trajectories: A Dynamic Multidimensional Theory
(1982). Attitude Change and Attitudinal Trajectories: A Dynamic Multidimensional Theory. Annals of the International Communication Association: Vol. 6, Communication Yearbook 6, pp. 364-394
Reply to Rabinovich and McGregor
Journal Article Reply to Rabinovich and McGregor Get access STAN A. KAPLOWITZ, STAN A. KAPLOWITZ Michigan State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar VLADIMIR SHLAPENTOKH VLADIMIR SHLAPENTOKH Michigan State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Public Opinion Quarterly, Volume 46, Issue 2, SUMMER 1982, Pages 285–287, https://doi.org/10.1086/268720 Publishe…
Possible Falsification of Survey Data: An Analysis of a Mail Survey in the Soviet Union
Analysis of data from a mall survey in the Soviet Union, carried out by the agency responsible for the distribution of America Illustrated, strongly suggests that the data were falsified. Information about Soviet society (including the results of a number of other surveys of the Soviet population) and probability theory were used to generate a set of expected results for this survey. The actual results differed dramatically from the expected—the …
A dynamic model of the effect of discrepant information on unidimensional attitude change
A differential equation model of the attitude change process is proposed which considers an individual's attitude as affected by discrepant messages along a unidimen-sional continuum. The model posits two dynamic components: translation to a new equilibrium due to the impulsive force of the message, and oscillation around the moving equilibrium due, in part, to restoring forces resisting displacement from equilibrium. An experiment to test some o…
Positional discrepancy, psychological discrepancy, and attitude change: Experimental tests of some mathematical models 1
Conflicting models of the attitude change process were tested in two experiments. The simple linear balance model predicts that the amount of attitude change induced by a message is proportional to the discrepancy between the respondent's original position and the position advocated. The psychological‐discrepancy‐discounting model assumes that as messages become more psychologically discrepant from one's position, they lose their effectiveness in…
Anonymity, Strength of Attitude, and the Influence of Public Opinion Polls
Subjects were given questionnaires asking their responses to six statements on public issues. On some of the issues subjects were highly committed to their own views, while other issues were selected for the subjects' lack of knowledge and commitment. Some subjects were asked to respond anonymously, and others were led to believe that their responses would be made public. Each questionnaire contained a bogus distribution of responses from student…
Incongruity in Humor: The Cognitive Dynamics
Message discrepancy and the persistence of attitude change: Implications of an information integration model
Assessment of the Use of Self-Referent Concepts for the Measurement of Cognition and Affect
The State of Social Psychology: Issues, Themes and Controversies
Disentangling the Effects of Discrepant and Disconfirming Information
Stan A. Kaplowitz, Edward L. Fink, James Mulcrone, David Atkin, Saleh Dabil, Disentangling the Effects of Discrepant and Disconfirming Information, Social Psychology Quarterly, Vol. 54, No. 3 (Sep., 1991), pp. 191-207
Attributional Biases in Individualistic and Collectivistic Cultures: A Comparison of Americans with Saudis
Saad Said A. Al-Zahrani, Stan A. Kaplowitz, Attributional Biases in Individualistic and Collectivistic Cultures: A Comparison of Americans with Saudis, Social Psychology Quarterly, Vol. 56, No. 3 (Sep., 1993), pp. 223-233
Minority Influence
The semantics of social influence: Threats vs. persuasion
This study investigates how language is used to make sense of influence attempts. More specifically, the perceived potency and evaluation of both influence agents and targets and the influence tactic used are examined for their effect on the actors' perceived power and influence success. The two influence tactics examined are threats and attempts to persuade. A pilot study (N=145) and main experiment (N=189) were conducted to create 84 simple sen…
How Accurate Are Perceptions of Social Statistics about Blacks and Whites
Journal Article How Accurate Are Perceptions of Social Statistics about Blacks and Whites? Effects of Race and Education Get access STAN A. KAPLOWITZ, STAN A. KAPLOWITZ Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar BRADLEY J. FISHER, BRADLEY J. FISHER Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar CLIFFORD L. BROMAN CLIFFORD L. BROMAN Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Go…
The Effects of Physician Empathy on Patient Satisfaction and Compliance
The present study attempted to develop new scales of patient-perceived, empathy-related constructs and to test a model of the relationships of physician empathy and related constructs to patient satisfaction and compliance. Five hundred fifty outpatients at a large university hospital in Korea were interviewed with the questionnaire. The data were analyzed using structural equation modeling. Patient-perceived physician empathy significantly influ…
Perceptions of Economic and Behavioral Differences Between Blacks and Whites: Racial Attitudes of White Americans and Status Generalization
A telephone survey of Michigan residents provided statistics about the economic conditions and undesirable behavior of white Americans and asked respondents to estimate the corresponding statistics for blacks. Data from white respondents showed that the greater the perceived racial difference (PRD) in rates of undesirable behavior, the more blacks were seen as not trying to better themselves and the less blacks were viewed as experiencing discrim…
The Comparative Statics and Dynamics of Beliefs: The Effect of Message Discrepancy and Source Credibility
Two models of belief change, Laroche's (1977) comparative statics model and the single-push with friction dynamic model (Kaplowitz, Fink, & Bauer, 1983), were combined and tested. Beliefs about two issues (criminal sentencing and tuition increase) were measured every 77 ms, N=95. Eleven time points from each participant's belief trajectory were analyzed. Message discrepancy and source credibility were manipulated. As predicted, belief change mono…
Confirmatory factor analysis of a questionnaire measuring control in parental feeding practices in mothers of Head Start children
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