Let Me Think about It: Cognitive Elaboration and Strategies of Resistance to Political Persuasion

IF 3.4 2区心理学 Q1 COMMUNICATION

Media Psychology Pub Date : 2022-07-27 DOI:10.1080/15213269.2022.2098774

Chiara Valli, Alessandro Nai

引用次数: 5

Abstract

ABSTRACT Although individuals have a whole arsenal of resistance strategies they can use to defend their attitude against a persuasion attack, resistance has often been simplified to counterarguing. This article advances previous studies by considering eight distinct resistance strategies and analyzing their isolated and intertwined effect on attitude change. We further ask under what circumstances they work most effectively to curb persuasion by looking at their interaction with cognitive elaboration – that is, thoughtful and systematic processing. We present new evidence from a study conducted on a sample of American citizens (N = 528) and use a quasi-experimental design in which respondents are exposed to a tailored counterargument on a political issue. The results suggest that it is not the use of the isolated resistance strategies but that it is overall effort individuals put into resisting that help them to defend their attitude, and that this effect is reinforced by cognitive elaboration.

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让我想想:抵制政治说服的认知细化与策略

尽管个人有一整套抵抗策略可以用来捍卫自己的态度，以对抗说服攻击，但抵抗往往被简化为反驳。本文考虑了八种不同的抵抗策略，并分析了它们对态度变化的孤立和相互交织的影响。我们进一步询问，在什么情况下，通过观察它们与认知阐述(即深思熟虑和系统的处理)的相互作用，它们能最有效地抑制说服。我们从一项对美国公民样本(N = 528)进行的研究中提出了新的证据，并使用了准实验设计，在该设计中，受访者暴露于针对政治问题的量身定制的反驳。结果表明，并不是孤立的抵抗策略的使用，而是个体投入抵抗的整体努力帮助他们捍卫自己的态度，并且这种效果通过认知阐述得到加强。

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来源期刊

Media Psychology Multiple-

CiteScore

8.60

自引率

7.10%

发文量

期刊介绍： Media Psychology is an interdisciplinary journal devoted to publishing theoretically-oriented empirical research that is at the intersection of psychology and media communication. These topics include media uses, processes, and effects. Such research is already well represented in mainstream journals in psychology and communication, but its publication is dispersed across many sources. Therefore, scholars working on common issues and problems in various disciplines often cannot fully utilize the contributions of kindred spirits in cognate disciplines.