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Good News‐Bad News: Affective and Interpersonal Effects 1
Author(s) -
Veitch Russell,
Griffitt William
Publication year - 1976
Publication title -
journal of applied social psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.822
H-Index - 111
eISSN - 1559-1816
pISSN - 0021-9029
DOI - 10.1111/j.1559-1816.1976.tb01313.x
Subject(s) - affect (linguistics) , interpersonal communication , psychology , social psychology , interpersonal relationship , communication
News broadcasts conveying “good news” or “bad news” were played to subjects who subsequently made evaluative responses of anonymous others. The news broadcasts were shown to differentially elicit positive and negative affective responses and to affect subjects' evaluations of others. Additionally, reported affect was shown to be positively related to those interpersonal evaluations.