Facilitation of attitude formation through communication: how perceived source expertise enhances the ability to achieve cognitive closure about complex environmental topics

Attitudes on which people have achieved cognitive closure are better predictors of future attitudes and behavior than open attitudes. In two experiments, we found that factors in communication (source identity, source consensus) can enhance people's ability to achieve cognitive closure on compl...

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Published in:Journal of applied social psychology 2016-11, Vol.46 (11), p.627-640
Main Authors: Koot, Charlotte, Mors, Emma ter, Ellemers, Naomi, Daamen, Dancker D. L.
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