Inoculation and Mental Processing: The Instrumental Role of Associative Networks in the Process of Resistance to Counterattitudinal Influence

By Michael Pfau, Bobi Ivanov, B. Houston, Michel M. Haigh, Jeanetta Sims, Eileen S. Gilchrist, J. Russell, Shelley Wigley, Jacqueline M. Eckstein, Natalie Richert. 2005

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology

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Citations in the corpus

• Boosting the Potency of Resistance: Combining the Motivational Forces of Inoculation and Psychological Reactance. (2013, methodology): “Threat to held attitudes introduced during the inoculation message was assessed in the second phase of the study with a scale used extensively in previous inoculation research (e.g., Ivanov et al., 2009b; Pfau, 1992; Pfau et al., 2005).”
• All Joking Aside: A Serious Investigation into the Persuasive Effect of Funny Social Issue Messages (2007, methodology): “After message exposure, attitudes toward the four message topics were measured with six 7-point semantic differentials (bad/good , foolish/wise , unintelligent/intelligent , negative/positive , wrong/right , unacceptable/acceptable) similar to those used in previous attitude research (e.g., Fabrigar”
• Countering Misinformation and Fake News Through Inoculation and Prebunking (2021, background): “arguments) as well as the number of linkages between nodes, which helps strengthen people’s ability to resist persuasion (Pfau et al., 2005).”
• Combatting climate change misinformation: Evidence for longevity of inoculation and consensus messaging effects (2020, unknown): “One potential avenue to explore is to combine the consensus message with inoculation “booster” sessions (Compton & Pfau, 2005; McGuire, 1961).”