Abstract
120 householders heard a counterattitudinal communication on a sales tax vs an income tax from a person who visited their homes. The communication remained constant, but the person delivering it was sometimes conventionally dressed and sometimes deviant in appearance. Dissonance theory predicts that the dissonance aroused by an individual's choosing to listen to a counterattitudinal communication could be reduced by cognitions concerning the communicator's attractiveness if he were conventional in appearance but not if he were deviant. Therefore, the deviant campaigner was expected to effect greater attitude change than was the conventional campaigner. Follow-up interviews with the householders confirm this prediction. (19 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved).
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 752-757 |
Number of pages | 6 |
Journal | Journal of personality and social psychology |
Volume | 29 |
Issue number | 6 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Jun 1974 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Social Psychology
- Sociology and Political Science
Keywords
- conventional-appearing communicators, attitude change, householders
- counterattitudinal communication from deviant- &