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Richard E Petty

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Teeny J, Petty R
J Pers Soc Psychol . 2025 Feb; PMID: 39992751
The present research identifies a psychological phenomenon that helps to explain how people who prefer the same option to the same degree (e.g., two people equally prefer Politician A over...
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Petty R
Am Psychol . 2024 Dec; 79(9):1275-1288. PMID: 39715369
Research on misinformation has exploded over the past decade in psychology and other disciplines. Much research has been conducted about which variables are associated with the initial acceptance of misinformation...
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Diaz D, Brinol P, Bajo M, Stavraki M, Beato-Fernandez L, Petty R
Sci Rep . 2024 Jul; 14(1):15809. PMID: 38982156
One of the most used self-administered instruments to assess persecutory delusions is the Persecutory Ideation Questionnaire (PIQ). Individual differences in PIQ scores are important because they predict the severity of...
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Siev J, Petty R
Sci Adv . 2024 Jun; 10(24):eadn2965. PMID: 38865461
Political extremism varies across people and contexts, but which beliefs will a person support through extreme actions? We propose that ambivalent attitudes, despite reducing normative political actions like voting, increase...
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Xu M, Petty R
Pers Soc Psychol Bull . 2024 Jan; :1461672231223308. PMID: 38284648
Contrary to common beliefs, sometimes downplaying or even undermining one's case can enhance impact, especially for people with strong attitudes. Across four studies ( = 1,548), we demonstrate that the...
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Ruggeri K, Stock F, Haslam S, Capraro V, Boggio P, Ellemers N, et al.
Nature . 2023 Dec; 625(7993):134-147. PMID: 38093007
Scientific evidence regularly guides policy decisions, with behavioural science increasingly part of this process. In April 2020, an influential paper proposed 19 policy recommendations ('claims') detailing how evidence from behavioural...
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Guyer J, Brinol P, Vaughan-Johnston T, Fabrigar L, Moreno L, Paredes B, et al.
Pers Soc Psychol Bull . 2023 Oct; :1461672231197547. PMID: 37876177
Three experiments tested how low versus high pitch generated from sources beyond a message communicator can affect reliance on thoughts and influence recipients' attitudes. First, participants wrote positive or negative...
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Petty R, Wegener D, Brinol P
Behav Brain Sci . 2023 Jul; 46:e138. PMID: 37462185
De Neys makes some useful points regarding dual-process models, but his critique ignores highly relevant theories of judgment from the persuasion literature. These persuasion models predate and often circumvent many...
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Teeny J, Lanzalotta J, Petty R
Pers Soc Psychol Bull . 2023 Jun; 50(12):1661-1674. PMID: 37317889
Although two people could both enact similar forms of hypocrisy, one person might be judged as hypocritical than the other. The present research advances a novel, theoretical explanation for a...
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Brinol P, Petty R, Moreno L, Gandarillas B
Span J Psychol . 2023 Apr; 26:e5. PMID: 37078393
This article presents (SVT) as a framework predicting when mental contents guide performance. First, we illustrate how confidence can validate people's thoughts (goals, beliefs, identity) increasing and decreasing performance, depending...