Ambivalence, the presence of positive and negative reactions toward an object, typically involves the subjective experience of conflict. We investigate the role that the perceived validity of each side of an ambivalent attitude plays in producing subjective ambivalence (SA). Consistent with the metacognitive model of attitudes, we demonstrated that SA is reduced when people doubt either the pos...

The functional perspective on attitudes suggests that individuals will be more persuaded by advertisements that match their individual needs or attitude functions. Although previous research provided correlational support for this functional approach, the current study aimed to provide a stronger, experimental test. A pilot study validated situational manipulations of the value-expressive and k...

In the first part of study, we summarize existing types copyright bots. second part, present current state legal research on implementation bots and our own analysis which focuses Czech Supreme Court’s decision concerning The core this paper concerns impact work sampling musicians how creativity is shaped by their struggle to avoid detection sampled music in online environment.