Jack W Brehm

Biographic Data

ID242385
NAMEJack W Brehm
GIVEN NAMESJack W
FAMILY NAMEBrehm
SIGNATUREBREHM J W
AFFILIATIONSDuke University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS45
TOTAL CITATIONS535
AUTHOR COUNT45
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1954
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2008
H-INDEX13

  • The Difficulty of Making Reparations Affects the Intensity of Collective Guilt

    Open AccessMichael T Schmitt, Daniel A Miller et al.ARTICLEGroup Processes & Intergroup…2008Cited by: 10References: 7

    We examined how the difficulty of making reparations for the harm done to another group affects the intensity of collective guilt. Men were confronted with information documenting male privilege and were told that they would have a chance to help women and reduce patriarchy by collecting signatures on a petition. We manipulated the difficulty of making reparations by asking participants to collect 5, 50, or 100 signatures. As predicted by Brehm's…

  • Reactance Theory - 40 Years Later

    Anca M Miron, Jack W BrehmARTICLEZeitschrift für Sozialpsychologie2006

    In this paper we review the basic assumptions formulated by Jack Brehm in 1966 in his theory of psychological reactance and we sample some interesting directions of research on reactance that have been carried out by social psychologists during the last 40 years. We conclude that although there has been impressive development in the reactance research, more exciting avenues of investigation lie ahead. Throughout the paper we outline some of these…

  • Internalization of Multiple Perspectives or Dissonance Reduction

    Open AccessRobert A Wicklund, Jack W BrehmARTICLETheory & Psychology2004

    In numerous research programs based on the concept of cognitive dissonance, participants play a role that is ostensibly in conflict with their pre-existing values. A strict reading of dissonance theory (Festinger, 1957) leads us to suppose that these role-playing, or ‘forced compliance’, procedures generally create results that are not implied by the theory. We spell out a theoretical position that comes to terms with these effects of role-playin…

  • Evidence that the production of aversive consequences is not necessary to create cognitive dissonance

    Eddie Harmon-Jones, Jack W Brehm et al.ARTICLEJournal of Personality and Social…1996Cited by: 16

    The present authors hypothesized, in contrast to I influential revision ofcognitive dissonance theory, that the production of aversive consequences is not necessary to create cognitive dissonance and that cognitive dissonance will occur even when aversive consequences are not produced. In Experiment l, participants drank a pleasant- or unpleasant-tasting beverage and were given high or low choice to write a sentence that said they liked the bever…

  • Trivialization

    Linda Simon, Jeff Greenberg et al.ARTICLEJournal of Personality and Social…1995Cited by: 42

    Trivialization as a mode of dissonance reduction and the conditions under which it is likely to occur were explored in 4 studies. Study 1 tested and supported the hypothesis that when the preexisting attitude is made salient, participants will trivialize the dissonant cognitions rather than change their attitudes. Study 2 tested and supported the hypothesis that following a counterattitudinal behavior, participants will choose the first mode of d…

  • The Intensity of Motivation

    Jack W Brehm, Elizabeth A SelfARTICLEAnnual Review of Psychology1989

    INTRODUCTION 109 POTENTIAL MOTIVATION AND MOTIVATIONAL ROUSAL 110 Potential Motivation 110 Motivational Arousal 111 EVIDENCE ON THE JOINT EFFECTS OF POTENTIAL MOTIVATION AND IFFICULTY 111 Effects on Cardiovascular Reactivity 111 Intended Effort 1 !

  • Perceived difficulty, energization, and the magnitude of goal valence

    Open AccessJack W Brehm, Rex A Wright et al.ARTICLEJournal of Experimental Social…1983Cited by: 29References: 10

  • Responses to Uncontrollable Outcomes

    Camille B Wortman, Jack W BrehmCHAPTEREquity theory revisited: Comments…1975

  • Hostility as a function of the opportunity to counteraggress 1

    Open AccessJohn B Nezlek, John Nezlek et al.ARTICLEJournal of Personality1975

    Half of the subjects, college students, were insulted by the experimenter while half were not. Within each of these conditions, half of the subjects were led to believe they would have an opportunity to administer electric shock to the experimenter, while the other half were not. A measure of hostility toward the experimenter was taken before there was any actual opportunity to shock him. As predicted from reactance theory, it was found that the …

  • Effect of importance of freedom and attraction to group members on influence produced by group pressure

    Jack W Brehm, Milard MannARTICLEJournal of Personality and Social…1975Cited by: 10References: 4

    An analysis of group influence processes indicates that the functional relationship between attraction to a group and influence exerted by the group depends on the importance to the individual member of any freedom that is threatened by group pressure to conform. This proposition was tested by an experiment in which the effect of group conformity pressure on public and private opinions was measured under two levels of attraction to the group cros…

  • Prechoice awareness of relative deprivation as a determinant of cognitive dissonance

    Open AccessJoel Cooper, Jack W BrehmARTICLEJournal of Experimental Social…1971Cited by: 2References: 5

  • Attractiveness of old alternatives when a new attractive alternative is introduced

    Jack W Brehm, Elena RozenARTICLEJournal of Personality and Social…1971Cited by: 3

  • Direct and implied social restoration of freedom

    Stephen Worchel, Jack W BrehmARTICLEJournal of Personality and Social…1971Cited by: 19

  • Temporal changes in predecision preferences among choice alternatives

    Darwyn E Linder, Camille B Wortman et al.ARTICLEJournal of Personality and Social…1971Cited by: 3

  • The effect on dissonance of surprise consequences

    Open AccessJack W Brehm, Russell Jones et al.ARTICLEJournal of Experimental Social…1970Cited by: 6References: 5

  • Persuasiveness of one- and two-sided communications as a function of awareness there are two sides

    Open AccessRussell Jones, Russell A Jones et al.ARTICLEJournal of Experimental Social…1970Cited by: 5References: 2

  • Regret and dissonance reduction as a function of postdecision salience of dissonant information

    Jack W Brehm, Robert A WicklundARTICLEJournal of Personality and Social…1970Cited by: 7

  • Effect of threats to attitudinal freedom as a function of agreement with the communicator

    Stephen Worchel, Jack W BrehmARTICLEJournal of Personality and Social…1970Cited by: 19

  • Attitude change as a function of felt competence and threat to attitudinal freedom

    Open AccessRobert A Wicklund, Jack W BrehmARTICLEJournal of Experimental Social…1968Cited by: 20

  • Internal states or external stimuli

    Open AccessRussell Jones, Russell A Jones et al.ARTICLEJournal of Experimental Social…1968Cited by: 22References: 16

  • Attitude Change from an Implied Threat to Attitudinal Freedom

    John Sensenig, Jack W BrehmARTICLEJournal of Personality and Social…1968Cited by: 6

    College students were told they were to write an essay supporting 1 or the other side on each of S issues, and were led to believe they might be able to influence the decision about which side of an attiudinal issue they were to support. In all cases they were then told to support the side (either pro or con) they initially preferred, and postmeasures were then obtained before the actual writing. Those who were given the impression that their pre…

  • Attitudinal effects of communicator attractiveness when one chooses to listen

    Russell Jones, Russell A Jones et al.ARTICLEJournal of Personality and Social…1967Cited by: 3

  • The attractiveness of choice alternatives when freedom to choose is eliminated by a social agent1

    Open AccessThomas Hammock, Jack W BrehmARTICLEJournal of Personality1966

  • The attractiveness of an eliminated choice alternative

    Open AccessJack W Brehm, Lloyd K Stires et al.ARTICLEJournal of Experimental Social…1966Cited by: 19

  • Effect of a favor which reduces freedom

    Jack W Brehm, Ann H ColeARTICLEJournal of Personality and Social…1966Cited by: 19

    The purpose was to show that when a favor reduces a person's freedom, it arouses psychological reactance, a motivational state aimed at restoration of this freedom. Ss, run individually, learned they were to make Ist-imprcssion ratings of another S (confederate) and then were given a soft drink by this S, prior to making the ratings. In a 2 X 2 design, the Ist-imprcssion ratings were given low or high importance, and I of each importance group re…