Leandre R. Fabrigar

Associate Professor
Department of Psychology

A.A., University of Maryland, Munich Branch Campus, Munich, Federal Republic of Germany, 1986.
B.A., Psychology. Miami University, Oxford OH, 1988.
M.A., Psychology. The Ohio State University, Columbus OH, 1991.
Ph.D., Psychology. The Ohio State University, Columbus OH, 1995.

telephone: 613-533-6492
fax: 613-533-2499
e-mail: fabrigar at queensu.ca

Address

Department of Psychology,
62 Arch Street
Queen's University at Kingston
Kingston, Ontario
K7L 3N6

Research Interests

My primary research interests fall within the domain of attitude and persuasion research. These interests include the role of affect and cognition in persuasion, the causes and consequences of attitude strength, and the impact of attitude structure on susceptibility to persuasion and attitude-behavior consistency. Other research interests include the psychological mechanisms underlying social influence tactics, the impact of questionnaire design features (e.g., question order and question format) on the measurement of psychological constructs, and methodological issues in the application of statistical methods (e.g., factor analysis and structural equation modeling) to psychological research.

Representative 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.

Last updated January 29, 2008