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What are effective strategies in defusing contempt felt about political figures?
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What are effective strategies in defusing contempt felt about political figures?
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Flitter
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Ira J
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Ira J Roseman
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Whitlow
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Rutgers University
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Camden Graduate School
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This study examined the relative effectiveness of three different strategies in defusing contempt felt about political figures: rebut the attack which brought on the contempt (acting as the control), rebut the attack and counterattack, and rebut the attack and convey a message of hope. Contempt felt about the political figure was measured on a 20 item self-report contempt scale. In addition, a number of other dependent, mediating, and moderating variables were included in the survey to measure their relationship to the strategies to defuse contempt. Participants were instructed to read a fictional newspaper article, which first raised feelings of contempt about a fictional political figure, Congressman Blankenship, and then discussed Blankenship’s response to the issue that raised contempt, which contained one of the strategies to reduce contempt depending on condition. Participants then completed the contempt scale, which asked about their feelings and emotions towards Blankenship. Overall, the "rebut and counterattack" condition was found to be the only strategy that was significantly more effective in defusing contempt than the control condition. In addition, results found that the perceived undesirable qualities of the target of contempt fully mediated the relationship between the "rebut and counterattack" condition and amount of contempt felt about the target. Finally, results showed that neuroticism was a significant moderating variable in the study. These results begin to shed light on ways to diminish the impact of negative campaigning used against political figures.
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Psychology
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1 online resource (vii, 110 p. : ill.)
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M.A.
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Communication in politics
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by Alex Flitter
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ETD graduate
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I hereby grant to the Rutgers University Libraries and to my school the non-exclusive right to archive, reproduce and distribute my thesis or dissertation, in whole or in part, and/or my abstract, in whole or in part, in and from an electronic format, subject to the release date subsequently stipulated in this submittal form and approved by my school. I represent and stipulate that the thesis or dissertation and its abstract are my original work, that they do not infringe or violate any rights of others, and that I make these grants as the sole owner of the rights to my thesis or dissertation and its abstract. I represent that I have obtained written permissions, when necessary, from the owner(s) of each third party copyrighted matter to be included in my thesis or dissertation and will supply copies of such upon request by my school. I acknowledge that RU ETD and my school will not distribute my thesis or dissertation or its abstract if, in their reasonable judgment, they believe all such rights have not been secured. I acknowledge that I retain ownership rights to the copyright of my work. I also retain the right to use all or part of this thesis or dissertation in future works, such as articles or books.
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