Search Results - "Brehm, J. W"
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The intensity of motivation
Published in Annual review of psychology (1989)“…Intensity of motivation may be thought of as the momentary magnitude of motivational arousal. Understanding the psychological effects of control that take note…”
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Evidence That the Production of Aversive Consequences Is Not Necessary to Create Cognitive Dissonance
Published in Journal of personality and social psychology (01-01-1996)“…The present authors hypothesized, in contrast to 1 influential revision of cognitive dissonance theory, that the production of aversive consequences is not…”
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Exploring alternative deterrents to emotional intensity: Anticipated happiness, distraction, and sadness
Published in Cognition and emotion (01-09-2001)“…A recent theory of emotional intensity (Brehm, 1999) argues that emotions are functionally identical to motivational states. Like motivational states, the…”
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Attitudinal consequences of commitment to unpleasant behavior
Published in Journal of abnormal and social psychology (01-05-1960)“…"This study tested a "nonobvious' hypothesis derived from Festinger's theory of cognitive dissonance: given the fact that a person is committed to an…”
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Attitude change and justification for compliance
Published in Journal of abnormal and social psychology (01-03-1958)“…"This experiment has tentatively illustrated some of the processes involved in creating and reducing psychological dissonance and the implications of such…”
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The impact of task difficulty upon perceptions of arousal and goal attractiveness in an avoidance paradigm
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Avoidant control difficulty and aversive incentive appraisals : additional evidence of an energization effect
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Difficulty and interpersonal attraction
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Effect of threats to attitudinal freedom as a function of agreement with the communicator
Published in Journal of personality and social psychology (01-01-1970)“…Examined the effect of strong threats to a person's freedom to decide for himself on an attitudinal issue, and the effect of responses to threat as a function…”
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Some integrative effects of certain "irrational" behaviors
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Hostility as a function of the opportunity to counteraggress
Published in Journal of personality (01-09-1975)“…Half of the subjects, college students, were insulted by the experimenter while half were not. Within each of these conditions, half of the subjects were led…”
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The attractiveness of choice alternatives when freedom to choose is eliminated by a social agent
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Attitude Change from an Implied Threat to Attitudinal Freedom
Published in Journal of personality and social psychology (01-04-1968)“…College students were told they were to write an essay supporting 1 or the other side on each of 5 issues, and were led to believe they might be able to…”
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Effect of a favor which reduces freedom
Published in Journal of personality and social psychology (01-04-1966)“…The purpose was to show that when a favor reduces a person's freedom, it arouses "psychological reactance," a motivational state aimed at restoration of this…”
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Regret and dissonance reduction as a function of postdecision salience of dissonant information
Published in Journal of personality and social psychology (01-01-1970)“…Tested the proposition that imposed salience of dissonant cognitions increases postchoice regret using 36 female undergraduates. After a rating of decision…”
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Postdecision changes in the desirability of alternatives
Published in Journal of abnormal and social psychology (01-05-1956)“…Female Ss were asked to rate each of eight articles on desirability, choose between two of them and rate each of the articles again. In addition, some Ss were…”
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Increasing cognitive dissonance by a fait accompli
Published in Journal of abnormal and social psychology (01-05-1959)“…Festinger's theory (see ^W32:^n 347) states "that a person who is completely forced to behave in a manner he would avoid if possible, experiences no…”
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ATTITUDINAL EFFECTS OF COMMUNICATOR ATTRACTIVENESS WHEN ONE CHOOSES TO LISTEN
Published in Journal of personality and social psychology (01-05-1967)“…THE BASIC HYPOTHESIS CONCERNED AN INTERACTION BETWEEN COMMUNICATOR CHARACTERISTICS AND WHETHER OR NOT SS HAD VOLUNTEERED TO LISTEN TO THE COMMUNICATOR. 2…”
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Exploring alternative deterrents to emotional intensity: Anticipated happiness, distraction, and sadness
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Re-evaluation of choice alternatives as a function of their number and qualitative similarity
Published in Journal of abnormal and social psychology (01-05-1959)“…6th-grade school children were given systematically varied choices from among several toys in order to test 2 derivations from Festinger's theory of…”
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