Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.1967
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dc.titleWhen message tailoring backfires: The role of initial attitudes in affect-cognition matching
dc.contributor.authorSee, Y.H.M.
dc.contributor.authorValenti, G.
dc.contributor.authorHo, A.Y.Y.
dc.contributor.authorTan, M.S.Q.
dc.date.accessioned2016-06-01T10:19:50Z
dc.date.available2016-06-01T10:19:50Z
dc.date.issued2013
dc.identifier.citationSee, Y.H.M., Valenti, G., Ho, A.Y.Y., Tan, M.S.Q. (2013). When message tailoring backfires: The role of initial attitudes in affect-cognition matching. European Journal of Social Psychology 43 (6) : 570-584. ScholarBank@NUS Repository. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.1967
dc.identifier.issn10990992
dc.identifier.urihttp://scholarbank.nus.edu.sg/handle/10635/124521
dc.description.abstractThis research explores when and how tailoring messages to attitudinal bases backfires. Study 1 demonstrated that for attitudes (toward education subsidies) that were based more on beliefs than emotions, recipients whose initial attitudes were incongruent with the message position (i.e., message opponents) showed mismatching effects, such that the affective message was more persuasive than the cognitive message. Study 2 replicated these mismatching effects among message opponents for attitudes (toward a rival university) that were primarily affective. Study 3 controlled for effects of initial attitude certainty and replicated the mismatching effects of Study 2 for affective attitudes toward an increase in tuition. Finally, Study 4 suggested a potential mechanism for mismatching effects, revealing that for attitudes (toward an online course management system) that were based more on beliefs than emotions, message opponents counter-argued with the cognitive appeal more intensely than the affective appeal. Contrary to the notion in the extant literature that mismatching effects are relatively rare compared with matching effects, the current research suggests that mismatching effects occur for both primarily affective and cognitive attitudes when the recipient is highly opposed to the message position. The present findings also demonstrate the utility of examining attitudinal bases at the object level in the context of message tailoring. Implications for message tailoring and for affective versus cognitive attitudes are discussed. © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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dc.sourceScopus
dc.typeArticle
dc.contributor.departmentPSYCHOLOGY
dc.description.doi10.1002/ejsp.1967
dc.description.sourcetitleEuropean Journal of Social Psychology
dc.description.volume43
dc.description.issue6
dc.description.page570-584
dc.description.codenEJSPA
dc.identifier.isiut000325077900012
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