The pursuit of self-interest: Self-interest bias in attitude judgment and persuasion
The pursuit of self-interest: Self-interest bias in attitude judgment and persuasion
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DOI:
10.1037/0022-3514.89.6.864
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发表时间:
2005-12-01
影响因子:
7.6
通讯作者:
Chaiken, S
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作者:
Darke, PR;Chaiken, S
Self-interest affected the direction of attitudes in 4 studies exploring attitude judgment and persuasion. Experiment 1 showed that both self-interest and symbolic concerns predicted attitudes. The biasing role of self-interest in producing the well-known persuasion effects of personal relevance and argument strength was examined by disentangling the competing effects of personal costs and benefits. Experiment 2 used a standard personal relevance manipulation in the absence of supportive arguments and showed that perceptions of personal costs associated with the advocated policy partially mediated its negative effects on attitudes. Experiments 3 and 4 independently manipulated the onset of personal costs associated with an issue and the onset of issue-related benefits conveyed by supportive arguments. Postmessage attitudes were an additive function of personal costs and argument-specified benefits, and perceived costs and benefits biased information processing in a self-interested manner. A revised conception of personal relevance and argument strength is discussed.