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Social Judgment Theory contributions:

Rooted in judgment theory, which is concerned with the discrimination and categorization of stimuli, it attempts to explain how attitudes are expressed, judged, and modified.[10] A judgment occurs when a person compares at least two stimuli and makes a choice about them. With regard to social stimuli specifically, judgment processes incorporate both past experiences and present circumstances.[11] According to Cuddy, Charles and Yzerbyt (2008), these judgments will fall into one of the two comparative categories:
 * Communion or agency
 * Warmth or competence
 * Expressiveness or instrumentality
 * Socially or intellectually good/bad
 * Other-profitability or self-profitability
 * Social desirability or social utility
 * Morality or competence
 * Socio-morality or taskability

Sherif et al. (1965) defined attitudes as "the stands the individual upholds and cherishes about objects, issues, persons, groups, or institutions" (p. 4).[9] Researchers must infer attitudes from behavior. The behavior can be in response to arranged or naturally occurring stimuli.[8][12] True attitudes are fundamental to self-identity and are complex, and thus can be difficult to change. One example of this being represented in research is Cooksey, Freebody, and Davidson (1986) who used the social judgment theory to better understand how children learn and to see if there was a way for teachers to more accurately predict the academic potential a student has.