Forthcoming paper in Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

We are excited to share news about our forthcoming paper, co-authored with Andy Luttrell in Journal of Experimental Social Psychology on “When dueling emotions and conflicting beliefs predict subjective ambivalence: The role of meta-bases.” Given that subjective ambivalence can have desirable or undesirable outcomes for one’s attitudes and receptivity to persuasion, this work is interesting because it demonstrates that mixed emotions predict subjective ambivalence when there is relatively strong interest in processing affect, but it is mixed beliefs that predict subjective ambivalence when there is relatively strong interest in processing cognition. Thus, this research sheds light on the under-explored distinction between affect and cognition in mixed reactions and meta-bases when predicting subjective ambivalence.

A pre-print of this paper can be found here:
https://www.michellesee.com/uploads/1/1/9/6/119627433/iac_n_icc_x_mb_on_sa_pre-print.pdf