Ambivalent attitudes promote support for extreme political actions

JJ Siev, RE Petty - Science Advances, 2024 - science.org
Political extremism varies across people and contexts, but which beliefs will a person
support through extreme actions? We propose that ambivalent attitudes, despite reducing …

Robocalypse? yes, please! the role of robot autonomy in the development of ambivalent attitudes towards robots

JG Stapels, F Eyssel - International Journal of Social Robotics, 2022 - Springer
Attitudes towards robots are not always unequivocally positive or negative: when attitudes
encompass both strong positive and strong negative evaluations about an attitude object …

Belief in free will is related to internal attribution in self-perception

O Genschow, J Lange - Social Psychological and …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Past research indicates that individuals' belief in free will is related to attributing others'
behavior to internal causes. An open question is whether belief in free will is related to the …

It's complicated: The good and bad of ambivalence in romantic relationships.

G Zoppolat, F Righetti, M Đurić, R Balzarini, R Slatcher - Emotion, 2024 - psycnet.apa.org
People often feel mixed and conflicting feelings (ie, ambivalence) toward their romantic
partner. So far, research has primarily shown that ambivalence is linked to negative …

[HTML][HTML] How people perceive dispositionally (non-) ambivalent others and why it matters

R Han, T Proulx, F van Harreveld, G Haddock - Journal of Experimental …, 2023 - Elsevier
While research has studied the consequences of being ambivalent about a single attitude
object, we know little about how dispositionally ambivalent and non-ambivalent targets are …

Meating conflict: Toward a model of ambivalence-motivated reduction of meat consumption

S Pauer, BT Rutjens, MB Ruby, G Perino… - Foods, 2022 - mdpi.com
An increasing number of people are concerned about eating meat, despite enjoying doing
so. In the present research, we examined whether the desire to resolve this ambivalence …

Torn but balanced: Trait ambivalence is negatively related to confirmation

JM Hohnsbehn, DF Urschler, IK Schneider - Personality and Individual …, 2022 - Elsevier
Traditionally, ambivalence has been conceptualized as a negative influence on decision-
making (Van Harreveld et al., 2009). Challenging this notion, recent work suggests that …

Депривація військовослужбовців, які виконують завдання у відриві від основних сил, та в умовах полону

О Красницька - Вісник Національного університету оборони …, 2022 - visnyk.nuou.org.ua
Анотація Стаття присвячена проблемі впливу депривації на психіку й особистість
військовослужбовців, які виконують завдання у відриві від основних сил, та в умовах …

Torn Between Love and Hate: Mouse Tracking Ambivalent Attitudes Towards Robots

JG Stapels, F Eyssel - International Journal of Social Robotics, 2024 - Springer
Robots are a source of evaluative conflict and thus elicit ambivalence. In fact, psychological
research has shown across domains that people simultaneously report strong positive and …

Endorsing both sides, pleasing neither: Ambivalent individuals face unexpected social costs in political conflicts

JJ Siev, A Philipp-Muller, GRO Durso… - Journal of Experimental …, 2024 - Elsevier
Reducing political polarization requires finding common ground among people with diverse
opinions. The current research shows that people generally expect that expressing …