Attitude certainty: Antecedents, consequences, and new directions

ZL Tormala, DD Rucker - Consumer Psychology Review, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Psychological certainty has been the subject of a great deal of research across a number of
different literatures. This review focuses on prior and ongoing research on attitude certainty …

Undermining your case to enhance your impact: A framework for understanding the effects of acts of receptiveness in persuasion

MA Hussein, ZL Tormala - Personality and Social …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Past research has uncovered actions that would seem to undermine but in fact frequently
enhance persuasion. For example, expressing doubt about one's view or presenting …

[HTML][HTML] Overlooked leadership potential: The preference for leadership potential in job candidates who are men vs. women

A Player, G Randsley de Moura, AC Leite… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Two experiments tested the value people attach to the leadership potential and leadership
performance of female and male candidates for leadership positions in an organizational …

The allure of unknown outcomes: Exploring the role of uncertainty in the preference for potential

DM Kupor, ZL Tormala, MI Norton - Journal of Experimental Social …, 2014 - Elsevier
Influence practitioners often highlight a target's achievements (eg,“she is the city's top-rated
chef”), but recent research reveals that highlighting a target's potential (eg,“she could …

Facing the future: intended moral acts evoke greater elevation than completed ones

Z Xie, B Zuo, X Tan, C Liu - Current Psychology, 2024 - Springer
Elevation is an uplifting feeling evoked by witnessing other's moral beauty. Prior studies
explored the impact of different aspects of completed moral acts on elevation. However …

The evaluation of candidates in a personnel selection: Preference for experience over potential in unfavorable contexts

B Paredes, S Del Olmo, D Santos… - Anales de Psicología …, 2019 - revistas.um.es
The present researchs main goal is to find out how one responds to the organizational
context and the candidate profile in a job candidate evaluation context. With that purpose …

Artworks are evaluated as extensions of their creators

GE Newman, RK Smith - Advances in experimental philosophy of …, 2018 - torrossa.com
What are the psychological processes that drive the evaluation and appreciation of art? To
date, the psychological study of art has largely focused on the perceptual aspects of viewing …

Determining preference for potential: The role of perceived economic mobility

C Yang, S Zhao - Social Behavior and Personality: an …, 2019 - ingentaconnect.com
Although previous researchers have demonstrated that people often prefer potential rather
than achievement when evaluating other people or products, few have focused on the …

La evaluación de candidatos en un proceso de selección de personal: Preferencia por la experiencia sobre el potencial en contextos desfavorables

B Paredes, D Santos, S Olmo, B Gandarillas… - Anales de …, 2019 - SciELO Espana
La presente investigación tiene como objetivo averiguar cómo se responde a distintos
perfiles en la evaluación de candidatos de selección en función de contexto organizacional …

The preference for potential in competence, not in morality: Asymmetric biases regarding a group's potential for moral improvement and decline

Z Xie, F Wen, X Tan, J Wei, B Zuo - Plos one, 2020 - journals.plos.org
The current study examined the effect of a group's potential for improvement and decline in
morality and competence on applicants' willingness to join the group. We conducted four …