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The belief to have fixed or malleable traits and help giving: implicit theories and sequential social influence techniques

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Gamian-Wilk M., Lachowicz-Tabaczek K.

Polish Psychological Bulletin

2009

vol. 40

issue 2

85-100

Two sequential social influence techniques, the foot-in-the-door and the door-in-the-face, seem to be symmetrical, but there are different moderators and quite different mechanisms underlying each of the strategies. What links both techniques is the social interaction between a person presenting a sequence of requests and an interlocutor. The techniques' effectiveness depends on the course and perception of the interaction and the difficulty of requests in the sequence. The aim of the article was to verify various mechanisms of incremental (individuals who believe in malleable personality) and entity theorists (individuals who believe in fixed traits) compliance with the FITD and the DITF techniques. In a series of four studies it was shown that incremental theorists comply the FITD technique to a greater extend especially when a sequence of requests meets their mastery style of behavior thus means an interesting challenge to undertake or opportunity to deepen contact with a newly met person. Entity theorists are more prone to the DITF strategy as their helpless style of behavior and sense of guilt are triggered, thus a sequence of decreasing in magnitude demands is perceived as less threatening.

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1 Polish Psychological Bulletin

1 Gamian-Wilk M.

1 Lachowicz-Tabaczek K.

1 2009

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The belief to have fixed or malleable traits and help giving: implicit theories and sequential social influence techniques