Keywords
Persuasion (Psychology)
Abstract
Students in basic speech courses served as subjects in a study designed to test the efficacy of denial as a restorative agent after subjects' exposure to a belief-lowering attack. Denial was operationalized in two ways: (a) as a simple statement whereby the ostensible source of the attack message denied any connection with the attack, and (b) as a denial plus counter-assertion where the source additionally asserted an opinion directly contrary to that expressed i the attack. Denial treatments were administered either immediately, two days, or seven days after subjects' receipt of the attack message. While the immediate simple denial treatment produced Type 1 resistance, no differences were found in final belief levels across the six restorative treatments. The data failed to support the predicted superiority of denial plus counter-assertion over simple denial as a restorer of belief.
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Graduation Date
Summer 1981
Advisor
Pryor, Albert
Degree
Master of Arts (M.A.)
College
College of Arts and Sciences
Degree Program
Communication
Format
Pages
43 p.
Language
English
Rights
Public Domain
Length of Campus-only Access
None
Access Status
Masters Thesis (Open Access)
Identifier
DP0013365
STARS Citation
Beaubien, Ginny G., "The Effects of Temporal Delay upon Denial as a Means of Restoring Beliefs Following Succesful Persuasion" (1981). Retrospective Theses and Dissertations. 535.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/rtd/535
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