Kevin L. Blankenship

Publications:

Blankenship, K. L., Wegener, D. T. & Murray, R. A. (in press). Circumventing resistance by using values to indirectly change attitudes. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.

Blankenship, K. L., & Wegener, D. T. (in press). Value Activation and Processing of Persuasive Messages. Social Psychological and Personality Science.

Nesbit, S. M., Blankenship, K. L., & Murray, R. A. (in press). The influence of just-world beliefs on driving anger and aggressive driving behavior. Aggressive Behavior.

Blankenship, K. L. & Craig, T. Y. (2012). Something about Mary: Information Processing and the Persistence of Implicit Causality. Social Cognition, 30, 71-93.

Blankenship, K. L. & Craig, T. Y. (2011). Language use and Persuasion: Multiple Roles for Linguistic Styles. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 5, 194-205.

Craig, T. Y. & Blankenship, K. L., (2011). Language and persuasion: Linguistic extremity influences message processing and behavioral intentions. Journal of Language and Social Psychology, 15, 290-310.

Wegener, D.T., Petty, R. E., Blankenship, K. L., & Detweiler-Bedell, B. T (2010). Elaboration and numerical anchoring: Implications of attitude theories for consumer judgment and decision making. Journal of Consumer Psychology, 20, 5-16.

Wegener, D.T., Petty, R. E., Blankenship, K. L., & Detweiler-Bedell, B. T (2010). Elaboration and numerical anchoring: Breath, depth, and the role of (non-) thoughtful processes in anchoring processes. Journal of Consumer Psychology 20, 28-32.

Blankenship, K. L., Wegener, D. T., Petty, R. E., & Detweiler-Bedell, B. T. (2008). Elaboration and Consequences of Anchored Estimates: An Attitudinal Perspective on Numerical Anchoring. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 44, 1465-1476.

Blankenship, K. L., & Wegener, D. T. (2008). Opening the mind before it closes: Considering a message in light of important values increases message processing and later resistance to change. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 94, 196-213.

Wegener, D. T., & Blankenship, K. L. (2007). Ecological validity. In R. F. Baumeister & K. D. Vohs (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Social Psychology. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Blankenship, K. L. & Craig, T. Y. (2007). Language and persuasion: Tag questions as powerless speech or as interpreted in context. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 43, 112-118.

Blankenship, K. L., & Craig, T. Y. (2007). Powerless language markers and the correspondence bias: Attitude confidence mediates the effects of tag questions on attitude attributions. Journal of Language and Social Psychology 26, 28-47.

Blankenship, K. L., & Craig, T. Y. (2006). Rhetorical question use and resistance to persuasion: An attitude strength analysis. Journal of Language and Social Psychology, 25 111-128.

Blankenship, K. L., & Holtgraves, T. (2005). The role of different markers of linguistic powerlessness in the process of persuasion. Journal of Language and Social Psychology, 24, 3-24.