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Direct and Implied Social Restoration of Freedom.
Stephen Worchel,Jack W. Brehm +1 more
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This article is published in Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.The article was published on 1971-06-01. It has received 140 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Social influence & Conflict resolution.read more
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Culture as social control: Corporations, cults, and commitment.
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the psychological mechanisms used to develop social control systems and demonstrate how similar these approaches are across a variety of strong culture settings, ranging from conventional organizations to more extreme examples ofcults and re1igk~us-seets.
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Resistance and Persuasion
Eric S. Knowles,Jay A. Linn +1 more
TL;DR: This chapter discusses the nature of resistance in Persuasion, the role of belief and meta-Beliefs, and strategies for overcoming resistance.
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Psychological Reactance and Promotional Health Messages: The Effects of Controlling Language, Lexical Concreteness, and the Restoration of Freedom
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors manipulated the levels of controlling language and lexical concreteness within health messages targeting a young adult population and found that messages using concrete language receive more attention, are viewed as more important, and generate more positive assessments of the source.
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Reactance Theory - 40 Years Later
Anca M. Miron,Jack W. Brehm +1 more
TL;DR: The authors review the basic assumptions formulated by Brehm in 1966 in his theory of psychological reactance and sample some interesting directions of research on reactance that have been carried out by social psychologists during the last 40 years.
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Imitation of film-mediated aggressive models
TL;DR: In a test of the hypothesis that exposure of children to film-mediated aggressive models would increase the probability of Ss' aggression to subsequent frustration, 1 group of experimental Ss observed real-life aggressive models, and a 2nd observed these same models potraying aggression on film.