Unpacking attitude certainty: Attitude clarity and attitude correctness

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 92, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 30-41

  Petrocelli, John V ^a   Tormala, Zakary L ^a   Rucker, Derek D ^b,c  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attitude strength; Attitudes; Certainty; Clarity; Correctness; Counterattitudinal persuasive messages; Metacognition; Persuasion; Resistance

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONSENSUS; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MULTICENTER STUDY; PERSUASIVE COMMUNICATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REACTION TIME; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTITUDE; CONSENSUS; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; INDIANA; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; OHIO; PERSUASIVE COMMUNICATION; REACTION TIME; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 33845976651     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.92.1.30     Document Type: Article

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