Studied the inclusion/exclusion model of assimilation and contrast effects. 32 university students either were or were not asked to recall the names of politicians who had been involved in a scandal and subsequently evaluated the trustworthiness of politicians in general and of 3 specific exemplars. Answering the scandal question decreased judgments of trustworthiness of politicians… Continue reading Scandals and the public’s trust in politicians: Assimilation and contrast effects
Keyword: Trust (Social Behavior)
Public attitudes toward data sharing by federal agencies
Investigated whether confidence in the US Census Bureau's promise of confidentiality would be shaped by demographics and more general attitudes of trust in the government. Specifically, it was predicted that better educated people would have more confidence in the promise of confidentiality, and that Blacks would have less confidence in such an assurance. 646 adults… Continue reading Public attitudes toward data sharing by federal agencies
Effects of salience of rape on sex role attitudes, trust, and self-esteem in non-raped women
45 female undergraduates were led to believe they were participating in a study of relationships between personality variables and attitudes toward several social issues. Ss expected that different persons would be asked to comment on different issues; however, for all Ss, the issue was rape. Ss who thought about rape prior to answering questions about… Continue reading Effects of salience of rape on sex role attitudes, trust, and self-esteem in non-raped women
The threat of rape: Its psychological impact on nonvictimized women
to provide a more direct test [of the hypothesis that the threat of rape has an intimidating effect on women in general than that provided by correlation evidence], we conducted a series of experiments, using experimental procedures borrowed from social cognition research, in which we assessed the impact of the threat of rape on women’s… Continue reading The threat of rape: Its psychological impact on nonvictimized women
Reducing context effects by adding context information: The direction and size of context effects in political judgment
This article investigates how the activation of a specific exemplar influences the direction and the size of context effects on evaluative judgments about other specific exemplars or about a superordinate category. Ss were 125 college students. The activation of an untrustworthy politician decreased judgments of trustworthiness of politicians in general but increased judgments of the… Continue reading Reducing context effects by adding context information: The direction and size of context effects in political judgment