Traditionally, ambivalence has been conceptualized as a negative influence on decision-
making (Van Harreveld et al., 2009). Challenging this notion, recent work suggests that …

Ambivalence refers to the experience of having both positive and negative thoughts and
feelings at the same time about the same object, person, or issue. Although ambivalence …

Ambivalence, the presence of positive and negative reactions toward an object, typically
involves the subjective experience of conflict. We investigate the role that the perceived …

Ambivalence is a topic that is receiving an extending amount of attention in research on
attitudes and decision-making (see eg Armitage & Arden, 2007; Clark, Wegener, & Fabrigar …

The experience of attitudinal ambivalence (subjective ambivalence) is important because it
predicts key consequences of attitudes (eg, attitude–behavior correspondence, attitude …

Decades of past research point to the downside of evaluative inconsistency (ie,
ambivalence), suggesting that it is an unpleasant state that can result in negative affect …

Understanding when people are likely to feel ambivalent is important, as ambivalence is
associated with key attitude outcomes, such as attitude-behavior consistency. Interestingly …

Ambivalence, that is holding positive and negative evaluations about a single topic, has
traditionally been studied in relation to specific attitude objects. However, prior findings …

In this article we investigate the functional effects of ambivalence on decision-making
processes. We build on the misattribution literature and recent work on ambivalence to …

Little published research addresses the relationship between conservatism and attitudinal
ambivalence. Jost and Krochik (2014) found the two variables to be negatively related, such …