The Impact of Affect on Out-Group Judgments Depends on Dominant Information-Processing Styles

2016 ◽  
Vol 42 (4) ◽  
pp. 485-497 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linda M. Isbell ◽  
Elicia C. Lair ◽  
Daniel R. Rovenpor
Keyword(s):  
Information Processing ◽  
Processing Styles ◽  
The Impact

scholarly journals The inverse relation between risks and benefits: The impact of individual differences in information processing style

PLoS ONE ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (8) ◽  
pp. e0255569
Author(s):  
Patrycja Sleboda ◽  
Carl Johan Lagerkvist
Keyword(s):  
Information Processing ◽  
Cognitive Processing ◽  
Dual Process ◽  
Processing Style ◽  
Processing Styles ◽  
Affect Heuristic ◽  
Risks And Benefits ◽  
Food Applications ◽  
Dual Process Theories ◽  
The Impact

Existing research shows that evaluations of the risks and benefits of various hazards (i.e., technologies and activities) are inversely related. The affect heuristic explains the negative relation between risks and benefits, as based on the strength of positive or negative affect associated with a hazard. Research on the affect heuristic previously investigated under which conditions people judge risk and benefits independently, focusing on expertise as a factor that might exempt from inversely related judgements of risk and benefits. Measurements within Dual Process Theories have been found to be associated with rational, analytical decision making and accurate judgments. In this paper we investigated the extent to which rational information processing styles can predict the risk-benefit relation of technologies in a medical and food applications and whether the attitudes influence the strength or direction of the relationship. Using the Need for Cognition Scale (NFC), a psychometric-based risk scale and an explicit measure of attitude, in a representative sample of 3228 Swedes, we found that the high NFC group judged the risks and benefits of technologies to be inversely related. In contrast, the low NFC group judged the risks and benefits to be positively related. These results were confirmed across all studied technologies by applying moderation analysis. We discuss the results in light of recent research on cognitive processing and polarization over technologies’ risks.

The impact of attitudinal ambivalence on information processing and resistance to anti-smoking persuasion

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 2-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fayçal Boukamcha
Keyword(s):  
Information Processing ◽  
Persuasive Message ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Linear Effect ◽  
Processing Styles ◽  
Emotional Appeal ◽  
Resistance To Persuasion ◽  
Attitudinal Ambivalence ◽  
Analytical Processing ◽  
The Impact

Purpose This paper aims to clarify the effect of attitudinal ambivalence on resistance to anti-smoking persuasion through information processing styles. It was hypothesized that a high smoker’s ambivalence, induced by an anti-smoking persuasive message, triggers among smokers both a reflective and a non-reflective information processing. In turn, both the information processing styles were supposed to be predictors of the resistance to anti-smoking persuasion. Design/methodology/approach An experiment and a survey were conducted on a random sample of 347 smokers in this regard. Findings The findings indicated that smokers feel ambivalent toward anti-smoking messages in print ads and tend to process them both analytically and superficially. Also, it seems that only the analytical processing triggers resistance to anti-smoking persuasion. Originality/value The author reports on the importance of attitudinal ambivalence and information processing in the resistance to anti-smoking persuasion process. The paper should be of interest to readers in the areas of health communication and social marketing. This work seems to be important to the extent that few works have highlighted the causal and linear effect of a persuasive anti-smoking message on smokers’ ambivalence, information processing and resistance to persuasion. The findings in this paper seem interesting insofar, as they show the importance of the negative emotional appeal in the ambivalence, analytical information processing and resistance triggering.

The Impact of Information-Processing Styles on College Students' Attitudes toward People with Disabilities

2011 ◽  
Vol 42 (4) ◽  
pp. 19-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. Suthakaran ◽  
Scott Wright ◽  
Elise Simpson ◽  
Melissa Marra ◽  
Devin Sonner
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Information Processing ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
Disabled Persons ◽  
Process Information ◽  
Processing Styles ◽  
Study Results ◽  
Students Attitudes ◽  
The Impact

The purpose of this study was to explore the relationship between information- processing styles, as defined by using Epstein's (1994) cognitive-experiential self-theory (CEST), and college students' attitudes toward people with disabilities (PWD). The ability and favorability to process information experientially or rationally were measured using the Rational Experiential Inventory (REI), and attitudes toward PWD were measured using the Attitudes Towards Disabled Persons Scale-Form O (ATDP-O). Undergraduate students (N = 163) from a psychology subject pool participated in this study. Results indicated that favoring an experiential style of information processing was positively related to attitudes toward PWD. The ability to process information experientially or rationally and the favoring of a rational style of information processing were not found to be related to attitudes toward PWD. Implications for rehabilitation counselors are discussed.

ON THE CLASSIFICATION OF DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES IN CIVIL PROCESS

2019 ◽  
pp. 27-35
Author(s):  
Alexandr Neznamov
Keyword(s):  
Information Processing ◽  
Scientific Community ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Significant Feature ◽  
Legal Proceedings ◽  
Civil Process ◽  
Civil Proceedings ◽  
Processing Information ◽  
The Impact

Digital technologies are no longer the future but are the present of civil proceedings. That is why any research in this direction seems to be relevant. At the same time, some of the fundamental problems remain unattended by the scientific community. One of these problems is the problem of classification of digital technologies in civil proceedings. On the basis of instrumental and genetic approaches to the understanding of digital technologies, it is concluded that their most significant feature is the ability to mediate the interaction of participants in legal proceedings with information; their differentiating feature is the function performed by a particular technology in the interaction with information. On this basis, it is proposed to distinguish the following groups of digital technologies in civil proceedings: a) technologies of recording, storing and displaying (reproducing) information, b) technologies of transferring information, c) technologies of processing information. A brief description is given to each of the groups. Presented classification could serve as a basis for a more systematic discussion of the impact of digital technologies on the essence of civil proceedings. Particularly, it is pointed out that issues of recording, storing, reproducing and transferring information are traditionally more «technological» for civil process, while issues of information processing are more conceptual.

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