Compensatory conviction in the face of personal uncertainty
Going to extremes and being oneself
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6203705 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ian Mcgregor (0000-0002-2936-8883, York University), Ian A McGregor (corresponding author), Mark P Zanna, John G Holmes, J Spencer (0000-0002-1732-5261), Steven J Spencer |
| Year | 2001 |
| Volume | 80 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 472-488 |
| Publication date | 2001-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-3514 • E-ISSN: 1939-1315 |
| Publisher | American Psychological Association (APA) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1037//0022-3514.80.3.472 |
| PMID | 11300580 |
| OpenAlex | W4241264300 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 218 |
| References cited | 72 |
Study 1 participants' self-integrity (C. M. Steele. 1988) was threatened by deliberative mind-set (S. E. Taylor & P. M. Gollwitzer, 1995) induced uncertainty. They masked the uncertainty with more extreme conviction about social issues. An integrity-repair exercise after the threat, however, eliminated uncertainty and the conviction response. In Study 2, the same threat caused clarified values and more self-consistent personal goals. Two other uncertainty-related threats, mortality salience and temporal discontinuity, caused similar responses: more extreme intergroup bias in Study 3, and more self-consistent personal goals and identifications in Study 4. Going to extremes and being oneself are seen as 2 modes of compensatory conviction used to defend against personal uncertainty. Relevance to cognitive dissonance and authoritarianism theories is discussed, and a new perspective on terror managenment theory (J. Greenberg, S. Solomom, & T. Pyszczynski, 1997) is proposed
Authoritarianism · Cognitive dissonance · Cognitive psychology · Conviction · Democracy · Face (sociological concept · Politics · Salience (neuroscience) · Self-justification · Self-perception theory · Situational ethics · Social desirability · Sociology · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis · Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion · Jury Decision Making Processes · Law · Psychology · Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment · Social and Intergroup Psychology · Social Psychology
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