ArticlePloS one2021
Individual differences in thinking style and dealing with contradiction: The mediating role of mixed emotions.
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- The role of attitudes towards contradiction in psychological resilience: the cortical mechanism of conflicting resolution networks.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Interconnectedness and (in)coherence as a signature of conspiracy worldviews.Science advances · 2022Article
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- The Cassandra Experience: A Mixed Methods Study on the Intragroup Cognitive Dissonance of Italian Expatriates During the First Wave of COVID-19.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
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Abstract
The present research examined how individuals' thinking style (holistic vs. analytic) is associated with the way they deal with contradictory information and whether experiencing mixed emotions can mediate this relationship. Participants first completed the thinking style measure and then were exposed to two contradictory pieces of information (Studies 1 and 2). In study 2, we also measured the experience of mixed emotions to test the mediating role of this variable. Across two studies, we found that individuals with a holistic thinking style were more able to reconcile contradictory information compared to individuals with an analytic thinking style. Study 2 showed that the relationship between thinking style and dealing with contradiction was mediated by the experience of mixed emotions. This research extends previous findings on confrontation of contradiction and mixed emotions by using an individual-differences rather than a cultural-differences approach, and establishes mixed emotions as a plausible mediating variable.
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