Context is an essential component in all of social psychological research. What role does the social context play in the expression of attitudes?

Describe this linkage in terms of attitude-behavior consistency, attitude certainty, the role that perceptions of the social context might play in planned behavior, how social context might be involved in the intersection of persuasion and reactance, when forewarning doesn't work to enhance resistance to persuasion.

Answer:
We avoid expressing our true attitudes when doing so would violate the norms of a group; pluralistic ignorance in our subjective judgments about others holding different attitudes from ourselves; attitude certainty is enhanced by our sense of correctness based on the consensus of others; in planned behavior, we evaluate whether our social group may disapprove of the behavior we're planning on; reactance is of course a response to pressure from others to do or believe in a certain way; forewarning doesn't work when we wish not to appear gullible to others. In general, we see that we either wish to follow the norms, or perceived norms, of others in society by suppressing our attitudes; we may believe in the rightness of our attitudes based on others' responses; or we may resist others' coercion based on a threat to our freedom to maintain an attitude; or finally, we wish to appear possessed of well-informed attitudes in front of others.

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