American Graffiti: Effects of Authority and Reactance Arousal
- 1 July 1976
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
- Vol. 2 (3) , 264-267
- https://doi.org/10.1177/014616727600200312
Abstract
High or low threats to subjects' freedom to write on toilet stall walls were attributed to either a high or low authority source. Graffiti written on the threatening placards were directly related to both authority and threat level. The results were inter preted as responses to reactance.arousal. Conceptual problems deal ing with authority are discussed.Keywords
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