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attitudinal ambivalence: a standalone construct

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Social psychology

holding both positive and negative evaluations of the same attitude object.

In social psychology, attitudinal ambivalence refers to holding both positive and negative evaluations of the same attitude object. This meaning comes from Kaplan (1972) in Psychological Bulletin.[1]

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References

Kaplan, K. J. (1972). On the ambivalence-indifference problem in attitude theory and measurement: A suggested modification of the semantic differential technique. Psychological Bulletin, 77(5), 361-372. https://doi.org/10.1037/h0032590

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