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What Strategy Did Yale Professors Sherif and Hovland (1961) Develop

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What strategy did Yale professors Sherif and Hovland (1961) develop that maintains that individuals can be persuaded on a topic by being convinced to accept changes that are close to their already held beliefs?


Definitions:

Reactive

Describes a person or system that responds to stimuli or events after they have occurred, rather than anticipating or initiating actions.

Passive

A quality or state of acceptance or submission without active response or resistance.

Model

A simplified representation or framework of a process or phenomenon, used to explain, predict, or understand its behavior.

Mechanistic

A perspective or model that views processes in a systematic, often linear manner, akin to a machine with interrelated parts.

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