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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Attitude Certainty"”.
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Attitude Certainty is a Subjective Feeling State: Misattributions of Emotion Decoding Affect Attitude Certainty and Response to Persuasion
This experiment provides evidence that certainty appraisals arising from the process of decoding the emotions of social targets may be misattributed to attitude certainty (AC) and that this AC has the same consequences as AC arising from established antecedents, particularly with response to …
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The Anatomy of a Controlling Message and the Impact of Reactance on Attitude Certainty
… about the relationship between reactance and attitude certainty. Three studies were conducted to a) test the interplay between varying levels of explicitness and dominance in persuasive messages and b) to examine how the experience of reactance impacts attitude certainty toward the topic of a …
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Origins of Attitude Certainty and their Impact on Resistance To Persuasion: The Roles of Evidence Quality and Value-Relevance
… was to explore the formation and consequences of attitude certainty based on good or poor evidence and having varying degrees of value-relevance. Specifically, it was proposed that attitudes would be held with high attitude certainty when value-relevant, regardless of the quality of evidence by …
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The Stability of Attitudes Shaped by Regulatory Depletion and the Roles of Need for Cognition, Attitude Certainty, and Argument Quality
… a counterattitudinal persuasive message on the attitudes of depleted individuals and the stability of these depletion-induced attitudes in response to new attitude-relevant information. 135 undergraduates completed depletion tasks and reported their attitudes following a persuasive message. …
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THE AMERICAN DREAM: THE EFFECT OF MERITOCRACY BELIEFS OF WOMEN ON FUTURE EXPECTATIONS OF SEXISM
… the current research attempted to examine how attitude certainty might moderate the previous findings. Female participants read a vignette in which they applied to and were rejected from a hypothetical management position, for either an unspecified reason or a sexist reason. Our results …
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Essays on resistance against persuasion: Building, strengthening, and spreading attitudinal resistance through inoculation theory.
… of misinformation, in boosting attitudinal certainty, and in decreasing people’s willingness to share manipulative information. More specifically, in Chapter 1, I test the efficacy of “Bad News” as an inoculation treatment against common manipulation strategies and found that the …