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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 4.

Attitudes at the immediate posttest, after 7 days, and change as a function of focus of attention (Experiment 3).

	No-message control (n = 62)	No-focus control (n = 42)	Focus on source (n = 40)
Immediate attitudes	1.67	2.15	2.42
	(2.38)	(2.17)	(2.39)
Delayed attitudes	1.58	2.18	2.86
	(2.66)	(2.17)	(2.07)
Attitude change	−0.09^ns	0.02^ns	0.44^*
	(−0.37/0.19)	(−0.24/0.29)	(0.14/0.73)

Note. Attitudes were measured using 11-point rating scales ranging from −5 to 5, where higher scores indicated greater agreement with the advocated position. Numbers in parentheses for immediate and delayed attitudes are standard deviations, and confidence intervals for change scores reported in the last row.

p < 0.05.