Psychological Reactance and Promotional Health Messages: The Effects of Controlling Language, Lexical Concreteness, and the Restoration of Freedom

Recent social influence research utilizing psychological reactance theory (J. W. Brehm, 1966) has focused on how reactance motivates message rejection due to threats to perceived freedoms posed by controlling language. Although reactance has been shown to increase message rejection and source deroga...

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Veröffentlicht in:Human communication research 2007-04, Vol.33 (2), p.219-240
Hauptverfasser: Miller, Claude H., Lane, Lindsay T., Deatrick, Leslie M., Young, Alice M., Potts, Kimberly A.
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