The electoral consequences of ambivalence toward presidential candidates

By Howard G. Lavine. 2001

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Subfields: Communication, Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science

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Wanting other attitudes: Actual–desired attitude discrepancies predict feelings of ambivalence and ambivalence consequences (2014, background): “van der Pligt, & de Uver, 2009), political science (Lavine, 2001; Rudolph Ill Popp, 2007), sociology (Hajda, 1968), and other related disciplines (e.”
An Information Processing Theory of Ambivalence (2007, methodology): “ments by delaying the formation of voting intentions and attenuating the effects of such intentions on vote choice (Lavine, 2001).”
Contemporary perspectives on the psychology of attitudes (2004, background): “…conflict are held with less certainty and are more difficult to retrieve from memory (Huckfeldt & Sprague, 1998; Lavine et al., 2000), less stable over time (Lavine, 2001a; Zaller & Feldman, 1992), and more vulnerable to persuasion than relatively one-sided (unambivalent) attitudes (Bassili, 1996).”
Threat, Authoritarianism, and Selective Exposure to Information (2005, background): “…which people express their attitudes (Huckfeldt & Sprague, 1998; Lavine, Borgida, & Sullivan, 2000), and to produce attitudes that are unstable over time and susceptible to persuasive influence (Alvarez & Brehm, 1995; Armitage & Conner, 2000; Bassili, 1996; Lavine, 2001; Zaller & Feldman, 1992).”
Partisan News and Political Participation: Exploring Mediated Relationships (2016, background): “Exposure to challenging information also could provoke ambivalence, whereby people become familiar with competing considerations and valid arguments (Lavine, 2001; Mutz, 2002).2 Likewise, to the extent that counterattitudinal news “attacks people’s existing belief tendencies and forces them to…”
Ambivalence, Uncertainty, and Processes of Candidate Evaluation (2003, methodology): “Following recent practice in political science (Craig et al., 2002; Lavine, 2001; Lavine et al., 1998; Meffert et al., 2000; Steenbergen & Brewer, 2000), we used the formula proposed by Thompson et al.”
Sometimes You Feel Like a Nut, Sometimes You Don't: Citizens' Ambivalence About Abortion (2002, background): “So far, then, survey-based studies (see also Cantril & Cantril, 1999; Lavine, 2001) have made a plausible but almost wholly inferential case for the existence of ambivalence in the American public, and for the possibility that feelings of ambivalence may differ from one issue or choice condition to ”
The ABC of Ambivalence: Affective, Behavioral, and Cognitive Consequences of Attitudinal Conflict (2015, unknown): “Wellens,&Conner, 2001), presidential candidates (Lavine, 2001), pregnancy (Bruckner, Martin, & Bearman, 2004), dieting (Armitage & Arden, 2007), 2 Frenk van Harreveld et al.”
Political Online Information Searching in Germany and the United States: Confirmation Bias, Source Credibility, and Attitude Impacts (2015, background): “These findings might partly be explained by a higher diversity of viewpoints, which voters need to make sense of and which might lead to greater political ambivalence and lower political interest and engagement (e.g., Lavine, 2001; Parsons, 2010).”