Evaluating the use of exploratory factor analysis in psychological research.
- L. Fabrigar, D. Wegener, R. MacCallum, E. Strahan
- Psychology, Business
- 1 September 1999
Despite the widespread use of exploratory factor analysis in psychological research, researchers often make questionable decisions when conducting these analyses. This article reviews the major…
Attitudes and attitude change.
- R. Petty, D. Wegener, L. Fabrigar
- PsychologyAnnual Review of Psychology
- 1997
Empirical and conceptual developments over the past four years on attitudes and persuasion are reviewed, with particular attention paid to work on attitude accessibility, ambivalence, and the affective versus cognitive bases of attitudes.
The elaboration likelihood model: Current status and controversies.
- R. Petty, D. Wegener
- Psychology
- 1999
Attitude change: Multiple roles for persuasion variables.
- R. Petty, D. Wegener
- Psychology
- 1998
OVERVIEW The O.J. Simpson " trial of the century " in the mid-1990s captured the attention of the American populace more than any other public spectacle since the kidnaping of the Lindberg baby in…
The Flexible Correction Model: The Role of Naive Theories of Bias in Bias Correction
- D. Wegener, R. Petty
- Psychology
- 1997
Flexible correction processes in social judgment: the role of naive theories in corrections for perceived bias.
- D. Wegener, R. Petty
- PsychologyJournal of Personality and Social Psychology
- 1995
The flexible correction model posits that corrections occur when judges are motivated and able to adjust assessments of targets according to their naive theories of how the context affects judgments of the target(s).
The problem of equivalent models in applications of covariance structure analysis.
- R. MacCallum, D. Wegener, B. Uchino, L. Fabrigar
- PsychologyPsychological bulletin
- 1 July 1993
A study of 53 published applications showed that equivalent models exist routinely, often in large numbers and may often offer substantively meaningful alternative explanations of data.
Message Order Effects in Persuasion: An Attitude Strength Perspective
- C. Haugtvedt, D. Wegener
- Psychology, Business
- 1 June 1994
Contemporary research on attitude change processes is reviewed for implications regarding the relative influence of successive opposing messages on final judgements. Based on this review, extent of…
Mood management across affective states: the hedonic contingency hypothesis.
- D. Wegener, R. Petty
- PsychologyJournal of Personality and Social Psychology
- 1 June 1994
Application of learning principles across affective states led the authors to hypothesize that hedonic rewards are more contingent on scrutiny ofHedonic consequences in happy than sad states, and happy people should scrutinize the hedonics consequences of potential behaviors more than sad people.
Positive mood can increase or decrease message scrutiny: the hedonic contingency view of mood and message processing.
- D. Wegener, R. Petty, S. M. Smith
- PsychologyJournal of Personality and Social Psychology
- 1 July 1995
Experiments 1 and 2 find that a happy mood can lead to greater message scrutiny than a neutral mood when the message is not mood threatening, but to less message scrutiny when a depressing message is encountered.
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