The role and impact of affect in the process of resistance to persuasion

By Michael Pfau, E. A. Szabo, Jason F Anderson, J. Morrill, Jessica Zubric, Hua-Hsin Wan. 2001

121 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Literature and Literary Theory, Social Psychology

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In Literature and Literary Theory

1. S. van der Linden
2. J. Compton
3. Stephan Lewandowsky
4. J. Roozenbeek

In Social Psychology

1. J. Compton
2. Stephan Lewandowsky
3. Claude H. Miller
4. Michael Pfau
5. S. van der Linden

Citations in the corpus

• Countering Misinformation and Fake News Through Inoculation and Prebunking (2021, background): “Nonetheless, it is interesting that the focus of inoculation research—by and large—has remained with cultural truisms (Pfau et al., 2001), as this rigid interpretation of the initial metaphor hampers theory development.”
• Inoculation Theory of Resistance to Influence at Maturity: Recent Progress In Theory Development and Application and Suggestions for Future Research (2005, background): “Pfau et al. (2001a), however, found that the process of resistance is also highly emotional.”
• Boosting the Potency of Resistance: Combining the Motivational Forces of Inoculation and Psychological Reactance. (2013, methodology): “Generating reactance within the attack Inoculation studies have manipulated counterattitudinal attacks on inoculated attitudes in terms of both the number of attacks (Ivanov, Pfau, & Parker, 2009a) and the cognitive versus. affective nature of the attacks (e.g., Pfau et al., 2001).”
• Attitudes and persuasion. (2006, unknown): “Resistance to persuasion can originate in cognitive and affective reactions to the appeal (Fuegen & Brehm 2004, Jacks & Devine 2000, Pfau et al. 2001).”
• The fake news game: actively inoculating against the risk of misinformation (2019, unknown): “…group is also consistent with the inoculation literature and typically indicates higher engagement, which is a key component of resistance (Pfau et al. 1997, 2001, 2009).9 In addition, from a theoretical perspective, it is important to highlight that despite its low sample size, this was…”