Emotion and persuasion: cognitive and meta-cognitive processes impact attitudes
Entity
UAM. Departamento de Psicología Social y MetodologíaPublisher
RoutledgeDate
2014-10-09Citation
10.1080/02699931.2014.967183
Cognition and Emotion 29.1 (2015): 1-26
ISSN
0269-9931 (print); 1464-0600 (online)DOI
10.1080/02699931.2014.967183Subjects
Attitudes; Persuasion; Elaboration likelihood model; PsicologíaNote
This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis Group in Cognition an Emotion on 2015, available online at: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/02699931.2014.967183Rights
© 2014 Taylor & FrancisAbstract
This article addresses the multiple ways in which emotions can influence attitudes and persuasion via primary and secondary (meta-) cognition. Using the elaboration likelihood model of persuasion as a guide, we review evidence for five fundamental processes that occur at different points along the elaboration continuum. When the extent of thinking is constrained to be low, emotions influence attitudes by relatively simple processes that lead them to change in a manner consistent with the valence of the emotion. When thinking is constrained to be high, emotions can serve as arguments in favour of a proposal if they are relevant to the merits of the advocacy or they can bias thinking if the
emotion precedes the message. If thinking is high and emotions become salient after thinking, they can lead people to rely or not rely on the thoughts generated either because the emotion leads people to like or dislike their thoughts (affective validation) or feel more confident or doubtful in their thoughts (cognitive validation). When thinking is unconstrained, emotions influence the extent of thinking about the persuasive communication. Although prior theories have addressed one or more of these fundamental processes, no other approach has integrated them into one framework
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