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Think Unique: Perceptions of Uniqueness Increases Resistance to Persuasion and Attitude-Intention Relations
The present research examines whether the perceived uniqueness of one’s thoughts and salience of uniqueness motivations can influence attitude strength and resistance. Participants who rated their thoughts as relatively unique formed attitudes that showed greater correspondence with behavioral inten...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8160101/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34054656 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.653031 |
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author | Blankenship, Kevin L. Kane, Kelly A. Machacek, Marielle G. |
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description | The present research examines whether the perceived uniqueness of one’s thoughts and salience of uniqueness motivations can influence attitude strength and resistance. Participants who rated their thoughts as relatively unique formed attitudes that showed greater correspondence with behavioral intentions to act on the attitude (Study 1). In Study 2, participants who recalled a previous purchase motivated by the desire to be unique (versus to fit in) after generating message counterarguments were less persuaded (more resistant) and reported greater willingness to act on their (negative) attitude. Moreover, attitudes mediated the effect of the purchase manipulation on intentions to act on the attitude. |
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spelling | pubmed-81601012021-05-29 Think Unique: Perceptions of Uniqueness Increases Resistance to Persuasion and Attitude-Intention Relations Blankenship, Kevin L. Kane, Kelly A. Machacek, Marielle G. Front Psychol Psychology The present research examines whether the perceived uniqueness of one’s thoughts and salience of uniqueness motivations can influence attitude strength and resistance. Participants who rated their thoughts as relatively unique formed attitudes that showed greater correspondence with behavioral intentions to act on the attitude (Study 1). In Study 2, participants who recalled a previous purchase motivated by the desire to be unique (versus to fit in) after generating message counterarguments were less persuaded (more resistant) and reported greater willingness to act on their (negative) attitude. Moreover, attitudes mediated the effect of the purchase manipulation on intentions to act on the attitude. Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-05-14 /pmc/articles/PMC8160101/ /pubmed/34054656 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.653031 Text en Copyright © 2021 Blankenship, Kane and Machacek. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Psychology Blankenship, Kevin L. Kane, Kelly A. Machacek, Marielle G. Think Unique: Perceptions of Uniqueness Increases Resistance to Persuasion and Attitude-Intention Relations |
title | Think Unique: Perceptions of Uniqueness Increases Resistance to Persuasion and Attitude-Intention Relations |
title_full | Think Unique: Perceptions of Uniqueness Increases Resistance to Persuasion and Attitude-Intention Relations |
title_fullStr | Think Unique: Perceptions of Uniqueness Increases Resistance to Persuasion and Attitude-Intention Relations |
title_full_unstemmed | Think Unique: Perceptions of Uniqueness Increases Resistance to Persuasion and Attitude-Intention Relations |
title_short | Think Unique: Perceptions of Uniqueness Increases Resistance to Persuasion and Attitude-Intention Relations |
title_sort | think unique: perceptions of uniqueness increases resistance to persuasion and attitude-intention relations |
topic | Psychology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8160101/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34054656 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.653031 |
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