Does Learning Others' Opinions Change One's Opinions?

Two experiments examined the attitudinal effects of mere exposure to others' attitudes. Both experiments replicated previous findings that people exposed to others' judgments often then exceed those judgments when indicating their own opinions. The first experiment indicated that (1) expos...

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Published in:Personality & social psychology bulletin 1980-06, Vol.6 (2), p.253-260
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