Abstract

On the assumption that individual attitude would result from his own perspective, this study iatented to investigate the offects of expansion of perspective on attitude. We hypothesized that the expansion of perspective affects judgmental extremity and leads to nonpolarized evaluative judgments. The first study was a correlational study, measuring the expansion of perspectives and relating then to judgmental ??????????????. It was found that when one has two contrasting perspectives by the expansion of perspectives, his svaluative judgment become less extreme. The second study ?????????? two contrary opinions on the descriptive dimension and related then to the expansion of perspective. Here ????? showed the difference between the person with contracted perspective and the person with dimension perspective. The forner could net differentiate these opinions on the descriptive dimension but the latter could. In ??????, this research found support for the hypotheses that the expansion of perspective ??????? to nonpolarized evaluative judgment also generates the descriptive dimension in the perceived structure of attitude of objects.