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Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Vol. 6, No. 2, 261-266 (1980)
DOI: 10.1177/014616728062012

Distraction

Effects on the Perceived Extremity of a Communication and on Cognitive Responses

H. Bruce Lammers

California State University, Northridge

Lee A. Becker

University of Colorado, Colorado Springs

Participants listened to either a proattitudinal or counterattitudinal communication under varying levels of distraction. A distraction x message position interaction indicated that distraction decreased the perceived extremity of the counterattitudinal communication while increasing the perceived extremity of the proattitudinal message. Distraction decreased the number of counterarguments generated by counterattitudinal speech recipients, but unexpectedly did not significantly affect proargumentation. Proargumentation notwithstanding, the results were consistent with the dominant thought disruption hypothesis.


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