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This is how your notes and perhaps your essay plan could look if you are passively noting all of the psychologists that could be relevant.

Billig (1987, 1991, 1996) argued that attitudes are shaped or designed for argument addressing just those issues that are up for debate within a specific culture at a particular period of time.

Wiggins and Potter (2003) show how displays of food preferences can be examined in terms of what the talk might do or accomplish, for example in terms of giving and receiving compliments appropriately.

Greenwald, McGee and Schwartz (1998) developed the implicit attitude measure to address the fact that people might attempt to conceal their ‘real’ attitudes.

Elliott, Armitage and Baughan (2007) found that self-reported behaviour could be found to differ from observations of the person’s behaviour.

Wicker (1969) questioned whether attitudes were in fact a useful construct.

These notes do actually assemble the details to some extent, and provide some basis for overcoming certain forms of plagiarism, but they don’t interrogate the argument. Notes of this nature and the essay plans they inform don’t quite make it your own, and they clearly underplay issues concerning structure and critical evaluation (these topics are further developed in Chapters 5 and 6).