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Pitch as a Recipient, Channel, and Context Factor Affecting Thought Reliance and Persuasion. (2023)
Journal Article
Guyer, J. J., Briñol, P., Vaughan-Johnston, T. I., Fabrigar, L. R., Moreno, L., Paredes, B., & Petty, R. E. (2023). Pitch as a Recipient, Channel, and Context Factor Affecting Thought Reliance and Persuasion. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, https://doi.org/10.1177/01461672231197547

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 thoughts about an exam proposa... Read More about Pitch as a Recipient, Channel, and Context Factor Affecting Thought Reliance and Persuasion..

Desired Attitudes Guide Actual Attitude Change (2022)
Journal Article
Vaughan-Johnston, T. I., Fabrigar, L. R., Xia, J., DeMarree, K., & Clark, J. (2023). Desired Attitudes Guide Actual Attitude Change. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 105, Article 104437. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2022.104437

Whereas actual attitudes represent people's evaluations of specific objects as being good or bad, desired attitudes represent the attitude positions that people wish they held. Previous work has established that desired attitudes can have psychologic... Read More about Desired Attitudes Guide Actual Attitude Change.

Connecting Attitude Position and Function: The Role of Self-esteem (2022)
Journal Article
Vaughan-Johnston, T. I., Fowlie, D. I., & Jacobson, J. A. (2023). Connecting Attitude Position and Function: The Role of Self-esteem. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 49(9), 1344–1362. https://doi.org/10.1177/01461672221100866

Attitude position and function often are discussed as though they are distinct aspects of attitudes, but scholars have become increasingly interested in how they may interface. We extend existing work showing that people view their positive attitudes... Read More about Connecting Attitude Position and Function: The Role of Self-esteem.

Facilitating Scientific Communication Between Strangers: A Preregistered Lost E-Mail Experiment (2022)
Journal Article
Vaughan-Johnston, T. I., Fowlie, D. I., & Jacobson, J. A. (2022). Facilitating Scientific Communication Between Strangers: A Preregistered Lost E-Mail Experiment. Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking, 25(7), 424-431. https://doi.org/10.1089/cyber.2021.0272

Communication scholars are increasingly concerned about biases that shape people's interactions with science. Past study has focused on echo chambers (cultivating social networks that reinforce existing worldviews). People's facilitation of scientifi... Read More about Facilitating Scientific Communication Between Strangers: A Preregistered Lost E-Mail Experiment.

Age Differences in Leadership Positions across Cultures (2021)
Journal Article
Vaughan-Johnston, T., Imtiaz, F., Lee, A., & Ji, L. (2021). Age Differences in Leadership Positions across Cultures. Frontiers in Psychology, 12, Article 703831. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.703831

In most countries around the world, the population is rapidly aging. A by-product of these demographic shifts is that older adults will likely occupy more positions of power and influence in our societies than ever before. Further, cultural differenc... Read More about Age Differences in Leadership Positions across Cultures.