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Reactance to Freedom Elimination: Social Characteristics of the Elimination and Efficacy for Evoking Reactance
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Observation-induced reactance in a prison
… tape would experience observation inductive reactance which would result in their desiring a greater amount of choice about group therapy enrollment at the same time that they would derogate the value of group therapy for themselves. Subjects also completed semantic differential profiles of …
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Casino Patrons' Reactance to Smoke-free Policies
… results indicated that both the psychological reactance trait and the attitude importance of the freedom to smoke influence gambling behavioral changes after a smoking ban went into effect. Individual attitudes towards secondhand smoking also explained changes in casino patronage. No moderator …
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Examining the relationship between experiences of discrimination and psychological reactance
<p>"Psychological reactance is a motivational state caused by a perceived threat to an individual's freedom to behave as he or she chooses. In this state individuals are motivated to restore the perception of freedom. Past research on reactance has suggested that it is possible that repeatedly …
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Attitude Formation & Persuasion Via Reactance: No, You Can't – Yes, I Can!
… to fill a significant gap in how psychological reactance theory (PRT; Brehm, 1966) is traditionally used in social psychological experiments. This study attempted to show that PRT can be used as a method to induce positive attitude formation. There is a need to understand how motivation to …
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The role of reactance and positive emotions in persuasive health messages: refining the theory of psychological reactance and the politeness theory and testing the theories of positive emotions
… on persuasion 1) by examining psychological reactance as a function of threats to positive identity above and beyond threats to freedom and 2) by examining the role of positive emotions. An online survey recruited 478 students from undergraduate courses at several universities in the U.S. The …
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An examination of descriptive and injunctive norms as antecedents to psychological reactance
… of the recommended action. Psychological reactance theory – which posits that individuals cherish their personal freedoms, and react negatively when their freedom is threatened – provides a theoretical account for why persuasive messages can fail. The current study extends the literature …
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Reactance as a result of repeated threats and an intervening restoration of attitudinal freedom
… threats to the same attitudinal freedom on reactance arousal. Although the effect of repeated or successive threats to freedom was not considered in the original statement of reactance theory, later research suggests there will be special effects. A series of threats in close succession may …
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The Anatomy of a Controlling Message and the Impact of Reactance on Attitude Certainty
<p>Psychological reactance theory (Brehm, 1966) has helped guide research on resistance to persuasion for over a half century. The theory holds that individuals value their freedom to make their own decisions, and when presented with a persuasive message, may perceive threat to their autonomy and …
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Ease the résistance : the role of narrative and other-referencing in attenuating psychological reactance to persuasive diabetes messages
Reactance theory (Brehm, 1966; Brehm & Brehm, 1981; Dillard & Shen, 2005) explains that persuasion may fail by inducing threats to individuals' perceived autonomy; this study provides evidence of pathways through this resistance to enhance message persuasiveness. A 2 (narrative) x 2 …
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Let me skip the ads! Revisiting the psychological reactance theory in an advertising context through examining the role of expectation
… expectation of freedom will lead to greater reactance and willingness to restore that freedom. Two pretests and an experiment were conducted, in which participants experienced the freedom to watch TV shows without ad interruptions during the first episode and in which the freedom was taken …
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The interplay of advertising choice and involvement on psychological reactance, attitudes, and intentions in the context of online video advertising
… and interactively impact users’ psychological reactance, attitudes toward the ad, attitudes toward the brand, and purchase intentions in the context of online video advertising. Employing a 2 (ad choice: yes vs. no) x 2 (involvement: high vs. low) between-subject experimental design, we …
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Crafting and delivering effective energy and water conservation messages: The role of forceful language and source features in psychological reactance
… practitioners, Brehm’s (1996) psychological reactance theory (PRT) is particularly useful for explaining message failure and for guiding strategic message design. Particularly, PRT (Brehm, 1966) can explain how persuasive communication may fail at gaining compliance (e.g., Dillard & Shen, …
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Predictors of Client Resistance in the Counseling Interaction
… two proposed sources of variance (psychological reactance and satisfaction) for the association between therapist directive behavior and client resistance. Speaking turns were coded and finally represented according to dichotomous categories for therapist and client behavior, and 18 (one for each …
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A Mixed-Method Examination of Social Media Influencers’ Source Characteristics in Sponsored Health Campaign Messaging: An Application of Psychological Reactance Theory
… campaign messages. Guided by psychological reactance theory (PRT), the purpose of this dissertation was to (a) uncover micro-influencer characteristics that mitigate reactance toward sponsored social media posts, (b) investigate whether influencers induce less reactance than non- influencers …
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RESISTANCE TO MANDATED HEALTHCARE CHANGE: USING PSYCHOLOGICAL REACTANCE TO PREDICT RESPONSES TO THE PATIENT PROTECTION AND AFFORDABLE CARE ACT INSURANCE COVERAGE REQUIREMENT
The Affordable Care Act (ACA), passed on March 23rd, 2010, contains widesweeping legislation aimed at reforming the current U.S. healthcare system. The ACA has been lauded by its proponents and deeply criticized by its opponents. The current paper included two experimental studies designed to test …
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On control and optimization of cascading phenomena in a class of dynamic networks
… of this thesis is to study transmission line reactance tweaking, as a mechanism for both post-disturbance control and pre-disturbance resilience enhancement in a transmission network, and develop an optimization framework for evaluating the efficacy of this mechanism in both scenarios. We …
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Influences of creativity, depression, and psychological well-being on physiological and psychological symptoms in midlife women
… among gender role conflict, psychological reactance, and relationship beliefs. Because intimate relationships have the potential to affect lives in many ways, it is important to examine factors that contribute to successful relationships. Although previous research has linked these …
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