When reactance effects persist despite restoration of freedom: Investigations of time delay and vicarious control
✍ Scribed by Norbert Schwarz
- Book ID
- 102829695
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1984
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 996 KB
- Volume
- 14
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0046-2772
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✦ Synopsis
Two studies are reported indicating that changes in attractiveness induced by psychological reactance are eliminated by a restoration of freedom only i f the restoration occurs immediately following the threat. When the restoration was delayed, changes in attractiveness were attenuated but were still significant, no matter whether the restoration occurred by chance or was under subjects' vicarious control. A threat immediately followed by a restoration, however, may be perceived as one event, and thus may not be very threatening. Therefore, the absence of reactance effects afrer immediate restoration may be due to a weak induction of reactance rather than to a reduction of reactance. To this extent, the incomplete reduction of reactance effects found afier delayed restoration, on the other hand, calls into question earlier conclusions (based on immediate restoration) that reactance is completely reduced by restoration of freedom and that reactance effects will no longer be obtained.
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