The Good News-Bad News Effect: Asymmetric Processing of Objective Information about Yourself
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"The Good News-Bad News Effect: Asym..." refers background in this paper
...The notion of cognitive dissonance was introduced formally by Festinger (1957). For a review see Simons et al....
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"The Good News-Bad News Effect: Asym..." refers background in this paper
...Papers in the second category use more realistic underlying quantities, such as personal skill (Gifford W. Bradley 1978), opinions on important issues (Charles Lord, Lee Ross and Mark R. Lepper 1979) and moral judgment (Linda Babcock and George Loewenstein 1997), but employ subjective information structures such as written articles or fictional back-stories....
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...A robust finding is that when given the same evidence, both sides of the debate become more convinced of their prior opinions (Lord, Ross and Lepper 1979, Michael J. Mahoney 1977, Scott Plous 1991, Raymond Nickerson 1998)....
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...Previous explanations fall broadly into two categories: 1) biased processing (Lord, Ross and Lepper 1979, Matthew Rabin and Joel L. Schrag 1999, Bradley 1978, Grether 1980) 2) endogenous recall and acquisition (George A. Akerlof and William T. Dickens 1982, Walter Mischel 1976, Benabou and Tirole 2002)....
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...The quantity is usually not directly tied o belief utility but indirectly linked through identity (e.g. sides of a hot political debate (Plous 1991, Lord, Ross and Lepper 1979) or beliefs which drove costly effort in the past (Mahoney 1977))....
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...Lord, Charles, Lee Ross, and Mark R. Lepper.1979....
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