Conclusion explicitness in message communication: The roles of NFC and knowledge in attitude formation
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- conclusion explicitness, message, NFC, knowledge, attitude formation, communication
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The impact of need for cognition (NFC) and knowledge on the relationship between conclusion explicitness and attitude formation was examined in this study. A total of 360 undergraduate students participated in the experiment. Results showed that while high-NFC individuals engender more favorable attitudes toward the implicitly concluded message than the explicitly concluded message, low-NFC individuals engender more favorable attitudes toward the explicitly concluded message than the implicitly concluded message. In addition, low-knowledge individuals engender more favorable attitudes toward the implicitly concluded message than the explicitly concluded message; however, conclusion explicitness does not affect the attitudes of high-knowledge individuals. Furthermore, conclusion explicitness does not affect the attitudes of high-NFC individuals with high knowledge toward the incoming message. Contrarily, low-NFC individuals with low knowledge engender more favorable attitudes toward the explicitly concluded message than the implicitly concluded message.
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- 2007-07-01
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- Volume 35, 2007, Issue 6
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