Ambivalence, discomfort, and motivated information processing

By L. Nordgren, Frenk van Harreveld, J. Pligt. 2006

205 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Literature and Literary Theory, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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In Literature and Literary Theory

1. Richard E. Petty
2. P. Briñol
3. I. Schneider
4. Norbert Schwarz
5. S. Wheeler
6. Frenk van Harreveld
7. Kenneth G. DeMarree
8. Zakary L. Tormala

In Social Psychology

1. Richard E. Petty
2. P. Briñol
3. Kenneth G. DeMarree
4. S. Wheeler
5. I. Schneider
6. Frenk van Harreveld
7. G. Thomas
8. Robin Martin

In Sociology and Political Science

1. Richard E. Petty
2. P. Briñol
3. Kenneth G. DeMarree
4. I. Schneider
5. S. Wheeler
6. Frenk van Harreveld
7. G. Thomas
8. Norbert Schwarz

Citations in the corpus

• Wanting other attitudes: Actual–desired attitude discrepancies predict feelings of ambivalence and ambivalence consequences (2014, background): “This is notable in light of research showing that subjective ambivalence is aversive (Nordgren, van Harreveld, & van der Pligt, 2006) and that people are motivated to reduce it (Bell & Esses, 2002; Clark et al., 2008;Maio et al., 1996; Nordgren et al., 2006).”
• Ambivalence and decisional conflict as a cause of psychological discomfort: feeling tense before jumping off the fence (2009, background): “Nordgren, Van Harreveld, and van der Pligt (2006) replicated and extended these findings by showing that this relation disappears once participants do not attribute their arousal to their ambivalence but to something else.”
• Mixed feelings: the case of ambivalence (2017, background): “When the decision is of low personal relevance, people may focus on only the positive or only the negative evaluations in order to sway their attitude in one direction [34].”
• Understanding The Dual Nature of Ambivalence: Why and When Ambivalence Leads to Good and Bad Outcomes (2017, unknown): “…work theorizes that the desire to reduce ambivalence-induced negative affect explains the relationship between ambivalent attitudes and compensatory order perceptions (Van Harreveld et al., 2014) as well as confirmatory information processing (e.g., Nordgren et al., 2006; Sawicki et al., 2013).”
• The ABC of Ambivalence: Affective, Behavioral, and Cognitive Consequences of Attitudinal Conflict (2015, background): “In a different study (Nordgren et al., 2006), information processing was directly related to ambivalence-induced discomfort.”
• Leader-Member Exchange (LMX) Ambivalence and Task Performance: The Cross-Domain Buffering Role of Social Support (2019, background): “…explaining the negative effects of ambivalence, few studies have empirically tested it as an outcome of ambivalence (e.g., Newby-Clark et al., 2002; Nordgren et al., 2006), and little is known about the emotional consequences of cognitive ambivalence and whether negative emotional responses can…”