Need for Closure Moderates the Break in the Message Effect
Authors:
- Dariusz Doliński,
- Dolińska Barbara,
- Yoram Bar-Tal
Abstract
Cutting the message into smaller portions is a common practice in the media. Typically such messages consist of a headline followed by a story elaboration. In a series of studies Dolinski and Kofta (2001) have shown that such a break in the message increases the effect of the information provided in the headline over that of a story which actually contained information inconsistent with that headline. A possible explanation of this effect, based on the concept of the need for cognitive closure, is presented in the article. The experiment shows that break-in-the-message effect is found mainly for participants with high need for closure but not for those with low such need.
- Record ID
- SWPS55acdd1da4b94cb2b59da7b299706673
- Author
- Journal series
- Frontiers in Psychology, ISSN 1664-1078
- Issue year
- 2016
- Vol
- 7
- No
- 1879
- Pages
- 1-5
- Publication size in sheets
- 0.50
- Keywords in English
- mass-media, social influence, cognitive structuring, moral judgments
- ASJC Classification
- DOI
- DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01879 opening in a new tab
- URL
- http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01879/full opening in a new tab
- Language
- (en) English
- File
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- File: 1
- FRONTIERSDolinski, Dolinska, Bar-Tal.pdf
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- Score (nominal)
- 35
- Publication indicators
- : 2016 = 1.006; : 2016 = 2.323 (2) - 2016=2.822 (5); = 3
- Citation count
- 3
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- http://192.168.13.97/info/article/SWPS55acdd1da4b94cb2b59da7b299706673/
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