Theories in Social Psychology. Группа авторов

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not only be situationally driven. For example, for three of the four factor structures identified in the Therapeutic Reactance Scale (TRS, a dispositional measure of reactance), Inman et al. (2019) found that there was a correlation between these factor structures and novelty seeking. Specifically, they found significant correlations between novelty seeking, (associated with impulsivity, disorderliness, excitability, and anger proneness), and conflict seeking resentment of authority and preservation of freedom. They recommend TRS as a useful measure for evaluation and to assist in interventions for counselors and psychologists to efficiently diagnose adolescents’ noncompliance in different settings.

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Brehm (1966) Psychological reactance theory formally presented in this monograph.
Brehm and Cole (1966) Explored the effects of a favour on reactance arousal. This study found that the importance participants place on the behavioral freedom influences the arousal and magnitude of reactance.
Brehm and Sensenig (1966) Examined social influence as a function of implied or attempted threat to freedom. Results from this study showed that when a person’s freedom to choice is usurped, the individual will experience psychological reactance and thus reject the influence.
Hammock and Brehm (1966) Explored the attractiveness of alternatives when freedom is reduced or eliminated. The two experiments yielded the results that a choice alternative which is eliminated by another person will tend to become more attractive, and a choice alternative forced by another person will tend to become less attractive.
Kornberg et al. (1970) Proposed how psychological reactance can provide a new perspective on understanding political behavior. Results support the application of reactance theory in the study of political behavior.
Linder and Crane (1970)
Wicklund (1970) Examined cognitive dissonance theory and reactance theory as theoretical explanations for regret when decision freedom is threatened. The results indicated that under conditions designed specifically to discriminate between the two theories, the prediction from reactance theory was supported while the prediction from dissonance theory was not.
Worchel and Brehm (1970) Examined the effect of strong threats to a person’s freedom in adopting attitudinal position and the effect of responses to threat as a function of initial agreement or disagreement with the position of the communicator. Findings detected that persons who received freedom threatening communications in agreement with their own position tended to move away from the advocated position, while those in all other conditions tended to move toward the advocated position.
Linder et al. (1971) Time prior to decision making was manipulated, with results supporting the hypothesis that the shorter the decision time the more likely attractiveness of alternatives converges.
Worchel and Brehm (1971) Explored direct or implied restoration of freedom. Results from both experiments supported the hypothesis that restoration of freedom reduces the increase in desirability of the alternative which results from a threat to freedom
Berkowitz (1973)
Andreoli, V.A., Worchel, S. & Folger, R. (1974) Identified conditions necessary for the arousal of reactance by implication. This study showed that reactance can be aroused by implication (by observing another person’s freedom being threatened) and restored by implication (observing another person’s freedom restored).
Wicklund (1974) Reviewed studies undertaken on reactance.
Brehm and Mann (1975) Examined the effect of group conformity pressure on public and private opinions with regard to reactance. Results displayed that if importance of freedom is relatively great to the individual, both private and public compliance decrease, as group attraction increases.
Heilman and Toffler (1976) Investigated the conditions under which the negative consequences of social influence attempts can be mitigated by freedom-affirming interventions. The results showed that in social situations individual’s concerns about their freedom were interpersonally motivated.
Miller (1976) Assessed varied intensities of exposure of a persuasive message on attitude change and psychological reactance. This study showed that mere exposure enhances the evaluation of stimuli whereas overexposure dampens positive attitudinal effects.
Snyder and Wicklund (1976) Examined the effect of exercising prior freedom and reactance. The two experiments of this study showed that when an individual exercises their freedom prior to it being threatened, they do so to prevent the onset of reactance.
Brehm and Weinraub (1977) Applied the theory of reactance to the attractiveness of goal objects when impeded by barriers. This study found that two-year-old boys were more reactant than two-year-old girls and this was due either to perception of cues and culture.
Carver (1977)