Abstract: The Unimodel treats persuasion as a judgmental process wherein recipients of persuasive communication draw conclusions from evidence on the basis of background knowledge. In contrast to dual-process models of persuasion, the Unimodel treats ...
A Theoretical Article on Self-Talk in Sports PsychologyAbstract. In this theoretical article on self-talk, various psychological theories relevant to the topic from a historical perspective are first presented. This is followed by the ...
Perception of risk to a stimulus associated with negative affect may depend on the level of emotional arousal it elicits. Sensation seeking is associated with a decreased level of arousal to risk stimuli. Individuals high in sensation seeking may require ...
Abstract. Decades of research in causal and contingency learning show that people’s estimations of the degree of contingency between two events are easily biased by the relative probabilities of those two events. If two events co-occur ...
Abstract. Previous choice blindness studies showed that people sometimes fail to notice when their choice is changed. Subsequently, they are willing to provide reasons for the manipulated choice which is the opposite of the one they made just seconds ...
Sensations of physical temperature can serve as a peripheral cue when some individuals interact with communication technology, but this phenomenon has been shown to occur only when individuals were engaged in peripheral-route associative processing. In an ...