Affective and semantic components in political person perception.

Abelson, Robert P.; Kinder, Donald R.; Peters, Mark D.; Fiske, Susan T.

doi:10.1037/0022-3514.42.4.619

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“…Various alternative operationalizations of ambivalence have been proposed. Abelson, Kinder, Peters, and Fiske (1982), for instance, proposed that ambivalence may be indicated by low correlations between positive and negative affect. In our data, the correlation between coded positive and negative affect was -.17 and the correlation between self-reported positive and negative affect was -.30.…”

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Nostalgia: Content, triggers, functions.

Wildschut¹,

Sedikides²,

Arndt³

et al. 2006

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

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Seven methodologically diverse studies addressed 3 fundamental questions about nostalgia.Studies 1 and 2 examined the content of nostalgic experiences. Descriptions of nostalgic experiences typically featured the self as a protagonist in interactions with close others (e.g., friends) or in momentous events (e.g., weddings). Also, the descriptions contained more expressions of positive than negative affect and often depicted the redemption of negative lifescenes by subsequent triumphs. Studies 3 and 4 examined triggers of nostalgia and revealed that nostalgia occurs in response to negative mood and the discrete affective state of loneliness.Studies 5, 6, and 7 investigated the functional utility of nostalgia and established that nostalgia bolsters social bonds, increases positive self-regard, and generates positive affect. These findings demarcate key landmarks in the hitherto uncharted research domain of nostalgia.Nostalgia 3

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Nostalgia: Content, triggers, functions.

Wildschut¹,

Sedikides²,

Arndt³

et al. 2006

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

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“…More importantly, we don't always pay attention to what speakers are advocating even when their words should command our attention. As evidenced by the work of Abelson and his colleagues (Abelson, Kinder, Peters, & Fiske, 1982), and Rosenberg and McCafferty (1987), people often make important decisions about political candidates not on the basis of their words, but on the basis of their appearance or a general feeling they have about them. Thus, the results of this research bring us one step closer to understanding what information contributes to these general feelings, and provides insight as to why we might give more weight to appearance than words.…”

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Seeing is believing: Facial appearance, credibility, and attitude change

Brownlow

1992

J Nonverbal Behav

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One-hundred twenty-eight subjects (64 female, 64 male) viewed either a babyfaced or maturefaced female speaker delivering a persuasive communication, and also received information designed to make the speaker seem either untrustworthy or inexpert. Subjects indicated how much they agreed with the speaker's position and completed other measures concerning her appearance and their perceptions of her speech. Babyfaced speakers induced more agreement with their position than did maturefaced speakers when trustworthiness was in question, presumably because babyfaced speakers still appeared honest due to their babyish facial features. Conversely, maturefaced speakers produced more attitude agreement as compared to babyfaced speakers when expertise was questioned, perhaps because knowledgeability was still communicated via their mature countenance. Attitude change was not related to perceived likability, age, attractiveness, or communication skills of the speakers, or subjects' interest in the topic.Over 80 million people watched at least one of the 1960 KennedyNixon television debates. Those who listened to them on the radio tended to think Richard Nixon had outdone the youthful, inexperienced JFK. The Republican's words carried more weight. Those who watched on television, however, proclaimed Kennedy the winner. His words were less important than his warmth [and] his sincerity. ... All of these qualities came across on television.-Krauss, in Davis & Baran (1981, pp. 103-104) Although the advent of television did not mark the beginning of formal study of the manner jn which qualities of persuasive sources influence us, it did serve as a catalyst to elucidate the nature of the relationship between physical appearance and persuasion. Indeed, score of studies conducted since the early 1960s have examined the effects of readily discernible qualities of sources, particularly physical attractiveness, on their ability to modSheila Brownlow is affliated with Catawba College,

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“…For example, assessments of the affect and cognition associated with particular attitude objects have independently predicted attitudes in a variety of settings (e.g., Abel-•on. Kinder, Peters, & Fiske, 1982;Crites, Fabrigar, & Petty, 1994), and confirmatory analyses have supported multifactor (tripartite) rather than single-factor models of these attitude structures (Breckler, 1984). Moreover, attitudes primarily based on affect versus cognition predict different classes of behaviors (e.g., Millar & Tesser, 1986 and are differentially influenced by affective versus cognitive persuasive appeals (e.g., Edwards, 1990;Fabrigar & Petty, 1999;Millar & Millar, 1990).…”

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Evaluating the use of exploratory factor analysis in psychological research.

Fabrigar¹,

Wegener²,

MacCallum³

et al. 1999

Psychological Methods

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Despite the widespread use of exploratory factor analysis in psychological research, researchers often make questionable decisions when conducting these analyses. This article reviews the major design and analytical decisions that must be made when conducting a factor analysis and notes that each of these decisions has important consequences for the obtained results. Recommendations that have been made in the methodological literature are discussed. Analyses of 3 existing empirical data sets are used to illustrate how questionable decisions in conducting factor analyses can yield problematic results. The article presents a survey of 2 prominent journals that suggests that researchers routinely conduct analyses using such questionable methods. The implications of these practices for psychological research are discussed, and the reasons for current practices are reviewed.

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Affective and semantic components in political person perception.

Cited by 596 publications

References 12 publications

Nostalgia: Content, triggers, functions.

Nostalgia: Content, triggers, functions.

Seeing is believing: Facial appearance, credibility, and attitude change

Evaluating the use of exploratory factor analysis in psychological research.

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