Early Life and Educational Background
Fabrigar was born on October 14, 1965, in Arcola, Saskatchewan, Canada. He earned his A.A. in 1986 from the University of Maryland branch campus in Munich, West Germany. He earned his B.A. in 1988 from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. In 1991, he completed his M.A. from The Ohio State University under the supervision of Jon A. Krosnick. He earned his Ph.D. in 1995 from The Ohio State University under the supervision of Richard E. Petty.
Professional Career
Fabrigar has taught at Queen’s University since 1995. He has coauthored more than 80 publications which have appeared in outlets such as Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Social Psychological and Personality Science, Personality and Social Psychology Review, Journal of Personality, Psychological Methods, Psychological Bulletin, and Psychological Science. He has been elected to the Society for...
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Crites Jr., S. L., Fabrigar, L. R., & Petty, R. E. (1994). Measuring the affective and cognitive properties of attitudes: Conceptual and methodological issues. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 20, 619–634.
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. (2012). Exploratory factor analysis. New York: Oxford University Press.
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., 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: Erlbaum.
Fabrigar, L. R., Petty, R. E., Smith, S. M., & Crites Jr., S. L. (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.
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Fabrigar, L.R. (2017). Fabrigar, Leandre R.. In: Zeigler-Hill, V., Shackelford, T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28099-8_1527-1
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