. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 May 27.

Published in final edited form as: J Exp Soc Psychol. 2016 Jul 1;68:171–180. doi: 10.1016/j.jesp.2016.06.009

Table 1.

Attitudes and attitude change as a function of information set and focus of attention (Experiment 1).

Dependent measure	Weak arguments-credible source		Strong arguments-noncredible source
Dependent measure	Focus on arguments (n = 62)	Focus on source (n = 48)	Focus on arguments (n = 48)	Focus on source (n = 57)
Immediate attitudes	−0.17	−0.37	0.17	0.35
	(2.43)	(2.64)	(2.35)	(2.16)
Delayed attitudes	−0.43	0.03	0.73	−0.18
	(2.62)	(2.63)	(2.52)	(2.43)
Attitude change	−0.26⁺	0.40^*	0.55^*	−0.53^*
	(−0.58/0.06)	(0.04/0.76)	(0.20/0.91)	(−0.86/−0.21)

Note. Immediate and delayed attitudes were measured using scales that ranged from −5 to 5. Values in parentheses are standard deviations for immediate and delayed attitudes; for attitude change scores, they are 95% confidence intervals around the means.

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p < 0.06.

p < 0.05.