Psychologiczne podejście do rozumienia postaw konsumenckich

Abstract

The psychology of attitudes is the one of the most important area in psychology. The attitudes influence the consumers’ decisions, so the knowledge about the origins, structure and the possibilities of attitudes’ change is very significant for marketing. As a consequence of many years of studies on attitudes the understanding of attitude concept has changed a lot. In the classic approaches attitude was stable, onedimensional (positive or negative) and conscious. Moreover, attitude was also treated as good predictor of the behavior. The contemporary approaches assume that attitudes can be ambivalent (positive and negative at the same time), and the person is not always conscious of attitude’s origins and even the attitude as such (implicit attitude). It is also known that the connection between the attitude and the behavior is more complicated that it was assumed before.

Keywords

• attitudes
• consumer
• emotions
• unconsciousness