Evaluating the Message or the Messenger? Implications for Self-Validation in Persuasion  

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Clark, Jason K. ; Wegener, Duane T. ; Sawicki, Vanessa ; Petty, Richard E. ; Brinol, Pablo

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin (http://journals.sagepub.com/home/pspc) vol. 39 no. 12 (Dec. 2013), page 1571-1584.
Topik: Attitude Change; Metacognition; Persuasion; Self-Validation; Source Credibility
Fulltext: 3. Pers Soc Psychol Bull-2013-Clark-1571-84_Pas.pdf (570.44KB)

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Characteristics of persuasive message sources have been extensively studied. However, little attention has been paid to situations when people are motivated to form an evaluation of the communicator rather than the communicated issue. We postulated that these different foci can affect how a source validates message-related cognitions. Participants focused on the source (Studies 1 and 2) or the issue (Study 2) while reading weak or strong message arguments. Later, the communicator was described as low or high in credibility. When focused on the source, highly motivated participants were more confident and their attitudes were more reflective of thoughts when argument quality matched (e.g., weak arguments-low credibility) rather than mismatched (e.g., weak arguments-high credibility) source credibility. Conversely, when participants were focused on the issue, self-validation was greater when credibility was high rather than low—regardless of argument quality. Implications of these findings for the study and practice of persuasion are discussed.

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