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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Opinion Change"”.
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The Bartlett Effect and The Persistence of Induced Opinion Change
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Normative Influence, Consensus Requirements and the Assessment of Opinion Change in Groups (Group Polarization, Altitude Change, Participation)
… and the individual level pre- to post-discussion opinion change phenomenon identified by Myers and Lamm (1976) as "group polarization" is noted. It is argued that the lack of the preceding distinction has resulted in the development and dominance of a "standard" research paradigm based at the …
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Virtual Opinion Leaders and Opinion Change: An Examination of Blogging through the Framework of the Two-step Flow of Communication
… today. One function of blogging is providing opinion and commentary on news from the mainstream media. In this way bloggers act as intermediaries, much in the same way Lazarsfeld described opinion leaders in his two-step flow of information theory. This research examined blogging from the …
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The Influence of Student Interactions on College Student Leader Change in Opinion: Differences by Frequency of Involvement
… Those choices are often influenced by the opinions of followers and public opinion in general (McIntosh, Cacciola, Clermont & Keniry, 2001). Understanding the opinion formation process, how leaders formulate opinions and how they make choices in leading their organizations is still at issue …
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Effects of two procedural factors on group decision-making: Deliberation style and assigned decision rule
… (e.g., acceptance of the group decision, opinion change). Implications of these procedural influences for legal/administrative decision contexts were discussed."
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Language Models as Opinion Models: Techniques and Applications
… now host the news cycle and shape public opinion, while large language models (LLMs) give us new tools to observe and predict those shifts. This dissertation links the new affordances of social media with the predictive power of LLMs to explain -- and forecast -- opinion change. We first …