Penny S Visser
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 1065777 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Penny S Visser |
| PRENOMES | Penny S |
| SOBRENOME | Visser |
| ASSINATURA | VISSER P S |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Chicago |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 20 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 633 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 20 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1996 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2019 |
| ÍNDICE H | 12 |
Moderation of classic social psychological effects by demographics in the U.S. adult population
For decades, social psychologists have collected data primarily from college undergraduates and, recently, from haphazard samples of adults. Yet researchers have routinely presumed that thus observed treatment effects characterize "people" in general. Tests of seven highly cited social psychological phenomena (two involving opinion change resulting from social influence and five involving the use of heuristics in social judgments) using data coll…
How Gender-Role Salience Influences Attitude Strength and Persuasive Message Processing
We conducted three studies to examine the relationship between gender and persuasion. We tested the notion that making gender roles salient affects the strength of individuals’ attitudes and the way they respond to persuasive information. In Studies 1 and 2, we found that priming women with the female gender role reduced the strength of their attitudes (Study 1, N = 50) and increased their susceptibility to persuasion through a low-thought proces…
The Ins and Outs of the Self
A variety of role exits and role entries were examined as potential predictors of self-concept clarity. Using a large, nationally-representative sample of adults, we assessed the number of role exits and role entries each respondent had experienced in the past year. Although both role exits and role entries were negatively correlated with self-concept clarity, subsequent analyses indicated that only role exits significantly predicted self-concept…
The Psychological Underpinnings of Political Behavior
34.1 Overview of Political Psychology 34.2 Requirements of Democracy 34.3 Causes of Behavior 34.4 Causes of Political Attitudes and Beliefs 34.5 How do People Decide with Which Political Party to Affiliate? 34.6 Causes of Other Political Judgments 34.7 Causes of Political Knowledge 34.8 Summary
Social network composition and attitude strength
Emerging perspectives on the structure and function of attitude strength
For more than 20 years, scholars have used the term “attitude strength” to refer to the durability and impactfulness of attitudes, and a large literature attests to the important leverage that this concept offers for understanding and predicting behaviour. Despite its prominence, however, a number of fundamental questions remain regarding the structure and function of attitude strength. In this chapter we draw on a wide range of evidence to clari…
The impact of the social context on resistance to persuasion
People as intuitive prosecutors
How Surveillance Begets Perceptions of Dishonesty
Three studies support the hypothesis that observers' impressions of actors reflect not only what actors do but also what they can easily be imagined doing. Participants in Studies 1 and 2 observed a 10-year-old boy take a math test in a context in which the incentive to cheat and the constraints against cheating varied. When the incentive to cheat was high but the likelihood of getting caught was also high, observers perceived a target who resist…
Attitude Importance and the Accumulation of Attitude-Relevant Knowledge in Memory
People who attach personal importance to an attitude are especially knowledgeable about the attitude object. This article tests an explanation for this relation: that importance causes the accumulation of knowledge by inspiring selective exposure to and selective elaboration of relevant information. Nine studies showed that (a) after watching televised debates between presidential candidates, viewers were better able to remember the statements ma…
Using implicit goal priming to improve the quality of self-report data
Attitudes in the Social Context
Four studies, using both experimental and correlational designs, explored the implications of being embedded within attitudinally congruent versus attitudinally heterogeneous social networks for individual-level attitude strength. Individuals embedded within congruent social networks (i.e., made up of others with similar views) were more resistant to attitude change than were individuals embedded within heterogeneous social networks (i.e., made u…
Distinguishing the cognitive and behavioral consequences of attitude importance and certainty
Political Psychology and Social Neuroscience
Attitudes toward Presidential Candidates and Political Parties
Most models of how citizens combine information about political candidates into attitudes toward them presume that symmetric linear additive processes are at work. We propose a model (called the ANM) in which the impact of favorable and unfavorable beliefs on attitudes is asymmetric and nonlinear. Cross-sectional national survey data (from 1972 to 1996) show that this model describes attitudes toward presidential candidates and political parties …
The impact of the fall 1997 debate about global warming on American public opinion
Although global warming has been the subject of some public discussion since the turn of the 20 th Century, it was pushed into the national spotlight during the fall of 1997, when President Bill Clinton's administration instigated a campaign to build public support for the Kyoto treaty. To examine the effect of this campaign and the debate it sparked, we conducted two national surveys, one immediately before and the other immediately after the ca…
Reexamining the circumplex model of affect
Mass Public Decisions on Go to War
How do Americans decide whether their country should use military force abroad? We argue they combine dispositional preferences and ideas about the geopolitical situation. This article reports the results of a representative national survey that incorporated five experiments. Findings include the following: (1) Respondent dispositions, especially isolationism versus internationalism and assertiveness versus accommodativeness, consistently constra…
Development of attitude strength over the life cycle
This article explores the relation of age to manifestations and antecedents of attitude strength. Three studies demonstrate that susceptibility to attitude change is greater during early and late adulthood than during middle adulthood. Three additional studies demonstrate that attitude importance, certainty, and perceived quantity of attitude-relevant knowledge are greater in middle adulthood than during early or late adulthood. These antecedents…
Mail Surveys for Election Forecasting? An Evaluation of the Columbus Dispatch Poll
Journal Article MAIL SURVEYS FOR ELECTION FORECASTING? AN EVALUATION OF THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH POLL Get access PENNY S. VISSER, PENNY S. VISSER PENNY s. VISSER is a doctoral candidate in the department of psychology at Ohio State University and JON A. KROSNICK is an associate professor in the departments of psychology and political science at Ohio State University, JESSE MARQUETTE is a professor of political science and director of the Survey Rese…
Mass Public Decisions on Go to War
How do Americans decide whether their country should use military force abroad? We argue they combine dispositional preferences and ideas about the geopolitical situation. This article reports the results of a representative national survey that incorporated five experiments. Findings include the following: (1) Respondent dispositions, especially isolationism versus internationalism and assertiveness versus accommodativeness, consistently constra…
Attitudes in the Social Context
Four studies, using both experimental and correlational designs, explored the implications of being embedded within attitudinally congruent versus attitudinally heterogeneous social networks for individual-level attitude strength. Individuals embedded within congruent social networks (i.e., made up of others with similar views) were more resistant to attitude change than were individuals embedded within heterogeneous social networks (i.e., made u…
Social network composition and attitude strength
Development of attitude strength over the life cycle
This article explores the relation of age to manifestations and antecedents of attitude strength. Three studies demonstrate that susceptibility to attitude change is greater during early and late adulthood than during middle adulthood. Three additional studies demonstrate that attitude importance, certainty, and perceived quantity of attitude-relevant knowledge are greater in middle adulthood than during early or late adulthood. These antecedents…
Attitudes toward Presidential Candidates and Political Parties
Most models of how citizens combine information about political candidates into attitudes toward them presume that symmetric linear additive processes are at work. We propose a model (called the ANM) in which the impact of favorable and unfavorable beliefs on attitudes is asymmetric and nonlinear. Cross-sectional national survey data (from 1972 to 1996) show that this model describes attitudes toward presidential candidates and political parties …
Distinguishing the cognitive and behavioral consequences of attitude importance and certainty
Attitude Importance and the Accumulation of Attitude-Relevant Knowledge in Memory
People who attach personal importance to an attitude are especially knowledgeable about the attitude object. This article tests an explanation for this relation: that importance causes the accumulation of knowledge by inspiring selective exposure to and selective elaboration of relevant information. Nine studies showed that (a) after watching televised debates between presidential candidates, viewers were better able to remember the statements ma…
Mail Surveys for Election Forecasting? An Evaluation of the Columbus Dispatch Poll
Journal Article MAIL SURVEYS FOR ELECTION FORECASTING? AN EVALUATION OF THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH POLL Get access PENNY S. VISSER, PENNY S. VISSER PENNY s. VISSER is a doctoral candidate in the department of psychology at Ohio State University and JON A. KROSNICK is an associate professor in the departments of psychology and political science at Ohio State University, JESSE MARQUETTE is a professor of political science and director of the Survey Rese…
The impact of the social context on resistance to persuasion
People as intuitive prosecutors
Reexamining the circumplex model of affect
Political Psychology and Social Neuroscience
How Surveillance Begets Perceptions of Dishonesty
Three studies support the hypothesis that observers' impressions of actors reflect not only what actors do but also what they can easily be imagined doing. Participants in Studies 1 and 2 observed a 10-year-old boy take a math test in a context in which the incentive to cheat and the constraints against cheating varied. When the incentive to cheat was high but the likelihood of getting caught was also high, observers perceived a target who resist…
Moderation of classic social psychological effects by demographics in the U.S. adult population
For decades, social psychologists have collected data primarily from college undergraduates and, recently, from haphazard samples of adults. Yet researchers have routinely presumed that thus observed treatment effects characterize "people" in general. Tests of seven highly cited social psychological phenomena (two involving opinion change resulting from social influence and five involving the use of heuristics in social judgments) using data coll…
Using implicit goal priming to improve the quality of self-report data
Mail Surveys for Election Forecasting? An Evaluation of the Columbus Dispatch Poll
Journal Article MAIL SURVEYS FOR ELECTION FORECASTING? AN EVALUATION OF THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH POLL Get access PENNY S. VISSER, PENNY S. VISSER PENNY s. VISSER is a doctoral candidate in the department of psychology at Ohio State University and JON A. KROSNICK is an associate professor in the departments of psychology and political science at Ohio State University, JESSE MARQUETTE is a professor of political science and director of the Survey Rese…
Development of attitude strength over the life cycle
This article explores the relation of age to manifestations and antecedents of attitude strength. Three studies demonstrate that susceptibility to attitude change is greater during early and late adulthood than during middle adulthood. Three additional studies demonstrate that attitude importance, certainty, and perceived quantity of attitude-relevant knowledge are greater in middle adulthood than during early or late adulthood. These antecedents…
Mass Public Decisions on Go to War
How do Americans decide whether their country should use military force abroad? We argue they combine dispositional preferences and ideas about the geopolitical situation. This article reports the results of a representative national survey that incorporated five experiments. Findings include the following: (1) Respondent dispositions, especially isolationism versus internationalism and assertiveness versus accommodativeness, consistently constra…
The impact of the fall 1997 debate about global warming on American public opinion
Although global warming has been the subject of some public discussion since the turn of the 20 th Century, it was pushed into the national spotlight during the fall of 1997, when President Bill Clinton's administration instigated a campaign to build public support for the Kyoto treaty. To examine the effect of this campaign and the debate it sparked, we conducted two national surveys, one immediately before and the other immediately after the ca…
Reexamining the circumplex model of affect
Attitudes toward Presidential Candidates and Political Parties
Most models of how citizens combine information about political candidates into attitudes toward them presume that symmetric linear additive processes are at work. We propose a model (called the ANM) in which the impact of favorable and unfavorable beliefs on attitudes is asymmetric and nonlinear. Cross-sectional national survey data (from 1972 to 1996) show that this model describes attitudes toward presidential candidates and political parties …
Distinguishing the cognitive and behavioral consequences of attitude importance and certainty
Political Psychology and Social Neuroscience
Using implicit goal priming to improve the quality of self-report data
Attitudes in the Social Context
Four studies, using both experimental and correlational designs, explored the implications of being embedded within attitudinally congruent versus attitudinally heterogeneous social networks for individual-level attitude strength. Individuals embedded within congruent social networks (i.e., made up of others with similar views) were more resistant to attitude change than were individuals embedded within heterogeneous social networks (i.e., made u…
How Surveillance Begets Perceptions of Dishonesty
Three studies support the hypothesis that observers' impressions of actors reflect not only what actors do but also what they can easily be imagined doing. Participants in Studies 1 and 2 observed a 10-year-old boy take a math test in a context in which the incentive to cheat and the constraints against cheating varied. When the incentive to cheat was high but the likelihood of getting caught was also high, observers perceived a target who resist…
Attitude Importance and the Accumulation of Attitude-Relevant Knowledge in Memory
People who attach personal importance to an attitude are especially knowledgeable about the attitude object. This article tests an explanation for this relation: that importance causes the accumulation of knowledge by inspiring selective exposure to and selective elaboration of relevant information. Nine studies showed that (a) after watching televised debates between presidential candidates, viewers were better able to remember the statements ma…
People as intuitive prosecutors
The impact of the social context on resistance to persuasion
Emerging perspectives on the structure and function of attitude strength
For more than 20 years, scholars have used the term “attitude strength” to refer to the durability and impactfulness of attitudes, and a large literature attests to the important leverage that this concept offers for understanding and predicting behaviour. Despite its prominence, however, a number of fundamental questions remain regarding the structure and function of attitude strength. In this chapter we draw on a wide range of evidence to clari…
Social network composition and attitude strength
The Psychological Underpinnings of Political Behavior
34.1 Overview of Political Psychology 34.2 Requirements of Democracy 34.3 Causes of Behavior 34.4 Causes of Political Attitudes and Beliefs 34.5 How do People Decide with Which Political Party to Affiliate? 34.6 Causes of Other Political Judgments 34.7 Causes of Political Knowledge 34.8 Summary
The Ins and Outs of the Self
A variety of role exits and role entries were examined as potential predictors of self-concept clarity. Using a large, nationally-representative sample of adults, we assessed the number of role exits and role entries each respondent had experienced in the past year. Although both role exits and role entries were negatively correlated with self-concept clarity, subsequent analyses indicated that only role exits significantly predicted self-concept…
How Gender-Role Salience Influences Attitude Strength and Persuasive Message Processing
We conducted three studies to examine the relationship between gender and persuasion. We tested the notion that making gender roles salient affects the strength of individuals’ attitudes and the way they respond to persuasive information. In Studies 1 and 2, we found that priming women with the female gender role reduced the strength of their attitudes (Study 1, N = 50) and increased their susceptibility to persuasion through a low-thought proces…
Moderation of classic social psychological effects by demographics in the U.S. adult population
For decades, social psychologists have collected data primarily from college undergraduates and, recently, from haphazard samples of adults. Yet researchers have routinely presumed that thus observed treatment effects characterize "people" in general. Tests of seven highly cited social psychological phenomena (two involving opinion change resulting from social influence and five involving the use of heuristics in social judgments) using data coll…
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