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- Title
Can exposure to arguments pro and contra extraversion affect self‐reports of the trait and the attitude toward it?
- Authors
Shchebetenko, Sergei; Mishkevich, Arina M.
- Abstract
Objective: Changeability of personality over short‐term intervals has increasingly become a focus of research. However, the role played by argumentation interventions in short‐term variations has scarcely been examined. Methods: In two experiments (N = 363 and 320), we investigated how processing positive and negative argumentation regarding extraversion (Study 1: watching a lecture; Study 2: elaborating self‐invented arguments) affects self‐reports on this trait and attitude toward it. The experiments included three waves of measurements with argument manipulation (in favor of or against extraversion) immediately prior to Time 2 (Study 2 also included a control group). Results: Mean‐level changes in extraversion across time moments, measured with the longitudinal confirmatory factor analysis, were consistently negligible. Conversely, there were some indications that argumentation about extraversion could have immediate short‐term effects on attitudes toward this trait. The random‐intercept cross‐lagged model showed that rank‐order consistency stemmed from a trait‐like intercept, which was particularly large for trait extraversion compared with the attitude. The autoregressive and cross‐lagged effects of residual within‐person variation were consistently small and mostly nonsignificant. Conclusion: Our findings suggest that extraversion and the attitude toward it maintained their temporal continuity within 3 months, even under a single exposure to arguments pro and contra this trait.
- Subjects
EXTRAVERSION; ATTITUDE change (Psychology); SELF-evaluation; PERSONALITY change; ORATORY
- Publication
Journal of Personality, 2022, Vol 90, Issue 4, p513
- ISSN
0022-3506
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/jopy.12680