Acceptance of persuasion and the inhibition of counterargumentation under various distraction tasks

The Underlying Mechanisms of Multiscreening Effects

“…Because of limited cognitive capacities, this thoughtful elaboration decreases during media multitasking Hwang 2012, 2015). This tendency is consistent with the counterarguing inhibition hypothesis (Keating and Brock 1974), which also suggests counterarguing can be reduced by a form of distraction, such as multiscreening. In addition, reduced counterarguing leads to increased acceptance of messages (Moyer-Gus e and Nabi 2010).…”

The psychological impact of circumcision

“…Furthermore, when a situation is ambiguous, people are especially influenced by the group, and the of American Jews, more than half of all Jews who marry choose a non-Jewish spouse [85]. greater the ambiguity, the greater the influence of the group on the judgement of individual members [79][80][81].…”

Distraction during persuasive communication: A meta‐analytic review

“…Third, the type and complexity of the distractor may be important. Osterhouse and Brock (1970) and Keating and Brock (1974) suggest that a vocal distractor should be better able to disrupt counterarguing, though Haslett (1976) found no support for this-but, visual distraction did appear to be less powerful than vocal or manual. Moreover, Baron et al suggest that distractions focusing attention on the speaker's personality may operate according to a strict credibility effect (see discussion of Evaluation Set).…”

“…Freedman and Sears (1965), replicating the Allyn and Festinger personality focus manipulation, observed trends in the direction predicted by Festinger and Maccoby. Other studies supporting this hypothesis include Rosenblatt (1966), Vohs and Garrett (1968), Shamo and Meador (1969), Kiesler and Mathog (1968), Zimbardo and Ebbesen (1970), Osterhouse and Brock (1970), Zimbardo, Snyder, Thomas, Gold, and Gurwitz (1970), Insko, Turnbull, and Yandell (1974), Keating and Brock (1974), Haslett (1976), Burgoon et al (1978), Watts and Holt (1979), Brandt (1979), and .…”