Department of Psychology

Select Publications:

Fabrigar, L. R., & Petty, R. E.  (1999).  The role of the affective and cognitive bases of attitudes in susceptibility to affectively and cognitively based persuasion.  Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 25, 363-381.

Fabrigar, L. R., Wegener, D. T., MacCallum, R. C., & Strahan, E. J.  (1999).  Evaluating the use of exploratory factor analysis in psychological research.  Psychological Methods, 4, 272-299.

Fabrigar, L. R., Krosnick, J. A., & MacDougall, B. L.  (2005).  Measuring attitudes.  In T. C. Brock & M. C. Green (Eds.), Persuasion: Psychological insights and perspectives (Second Edition) (pp. 17-40).  Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications.

Fabrigar, L. R., MacDonald, T. K., & Wegener, D. T.  (2005).  The structure of attitudes.  In D. Albarracin, B. T. Johnson, & M. P. Zanna (Eds.), Handbook of attitudes and attitude change (pp. 79-124).  Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

Fabrigar, L. R., Petty, R. E., Smith, S. M., & Crites, S. L., Jr.  (2006).  Understanding knowledge effects on attitude-behavior consistency: The role of relevance, complexity, and amount of knowledge.  Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 90, 556-577.

Smith, S. M., Fabrigar, L. R., Powell, D. M., & Estrada, M.  (2007).  The role of information processing capacity and goals in attitude-congruent selective exposure effects.  Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 33, 948-960.