My Freedom: Assessing Reactance in a High Freedom Persuasive Website

Assessing the performance of freedom of information

Available online 3 August 2010

Freedom and Human Dignity

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Functional Freedom: A Psychological Model of Freedom in Decision-Making

The freedom of a decision is not yet sufficiently described as a psychological variable. We present a model of functional decision freedom that aims to fill that role. The model conceptualizes functional freedom as a capacity of people that varies depending on certain conditions of a decision episode. It denotes an inner capability to consciously shape complex decisions according to one's own v...

Threat to Freedom and the Detrimental Effect of Avoidance Goal Frames: Reactance as a Mediating Variable

Two experiments examined how individuals respond to a restriction presented within an approach versus an avoidance frame. In Study 1, working on a problem-solving task, participants were initially free to choose their strategy, but for a second task were told to change their strategy. The message to change was embedded in either an approach or avoidance frame. When confronted with an avoidance ...

Freedom of Association and Freedom of Expression