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Overview

Zakary L. Tormala is affiliated with Stanford University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of social sciences and psychology, with significant contributions to subfields including sociology and political science, social psychology, applied psychology, cognitive neuroscience, and communication.

The scientist's work addresses a variety of topics, notably social and intergroup psychology, cultural differences and values, behavioral health and interventions, misinformation and its impacts, psychology of moral and emotional judgment, public relations and crisis communication, as well as sociopolitical dynamics in Russia.

Zakary L. Tormala has published extensively in renowned academic journals. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
  • Journal of Experimental Social Psychology
  • Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
  • Psychological Science
  • Personality and Social Psychology Review

Among recent papers authored or coauthored by Tormala are:

  • "The Attitude-Behavior Relationship Revisited," 2021, Psychological Science
  • "Undermining Your Case to Enhance Your Impact: A Framework for Understanding the Effects of Acts of Receptiveness in Persuasion," 2021, Personality and Social Psychology Review
  • "Do I support that it's good or oppose that it's bad? The effect of support-oppose framing on attitude sharing," 2021, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
  • "Individual Differences in Attitude Consistency Over Time: The Personal Attitude Stability Scale," 2020, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
  • "You versus we: How pronoun use shapes perceptions of receptiveness," 2023, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

Zakary L. Tormala frequently collaborates with other researchers in the field. Notable coauthors include:

  • Derek D. Rucker
  • Mohamed A. Hussein
  • Christopher J. Bechler
  • Rhia Catapano
  • Mengran Xu

Best Publications

  • Mediation Analysis in Social Psychology: Current Practices and New Recommendations

    Derek D. Rucker;Kristopher J. Preacher;Zakary L. Tormala;Richard E. Petty

  • Thought confidence as a determinant of persuasion: the self-validation hypothesis.

    Richard E. Petty;Pablo Briñol;Zakary L. Tormala

  • Implicit Ambivalence From Attitude Change: An Exploration of the PAST Model

    Richard E Petty;Zakary L Tormala;Pablo Briñol;W Blair G Jarvis

  • What doesn't kill me makes me stronger: the effects of resisting persuasion on attitude certainty.

    Zakary L. Tormala;Richard E. Petty

  • Unpacking attitude certainty: attitude clarity and attitude correctness.

    John V. Petrocelli;Zakary L. Tormala;Derek D. Rucker

  • Source Credibility and Attitude Certainty: A Metacognitive Analysis of Resistance to Persuasion

    Zakary L. Tormala;Richard E. Petty

  • Self‐Validation of Cognitive Responses to Advertisements

    Pablo Briñol;Richard E. Petty;Zakary L. Tormala

  • When credibility attacks: The reverse impact of source credibility on persuasion

    Zakary L. Tormala;Pablo Briñol;Richard E. Petty

  • Believe Me, I Have No Idea What I’m Talking About: The Effects of Source Certainty on Consumer Involvement and Persuasion

    Uma R. Karmarkar;Zakary L. Tormala

  • Ease of Retrieval Effects in Persuasion: A Self-Validation Analysis

    Zakary L. Tormala;Richard E. Petty;Pablo Briñol

  • Persuasion and Attitude Change

    Richard E. Petty;S. Christian Wheeler;Zakary L. Tormala

  • Consumer conviction and commitment: An appraisal-based framework for attitude certainty

    Derek D. Rucker;Zakary L. Tormala;Richard E. Petty;Pablo Briñol

  • The Malleable Meaning of Subjective Ease

    Pablo Briñol;Richard E. Petty;Zakary L. Tormala

  • Attitude Certainty: A Review of Past Findings and Emerging Perspectives

    Zakary L. Tormala;Derek D. Rucker

  • 11. The role of metacognition in social judgment

    Richard E. Petty;Pablo Briñol Turnes;Zakary L. Tormala;Duane T. Wegener

  • “Think” Versus “Feel” Framing Effects in Persuasion

    Nicole Mayer;Zakary Tormala

  • MULTIPLE ROLES FOR SOURCE CREDIBILITY UNDER HIGH ELABORATION: IT'S ALL IN THE TIMING

    Zakary L. Tormala;Pablo Briñol;Richard E. Petty

  • Memory-based versus on-line processing : Implications for attitude strength

    George Y. Bizer;Zakary L. Tormala;Derek D. Rucker;Richard E. Petty

  • Resistance to Persuasion and Attitude Certainty: The Moderating Role of Elaboration

    Zakary L. Tormala;Richard E. Petty

  • A new look at the consequences of attitude certainty: the amplification hypothesis.

    Joshua J. Clarkson;Zakary L. Tormala;Derek D. Rucker

Frequent Co-Authors

Derek D. Rucker
Derek D. Rucker Northwestern University
Richard E. Petty
Richard E. Petty The Ohio State University
Pablo Briñol
Pablo Briñol Autonomous University of Madrid
Michael I. Norton
Michael I. Norton Harvard University
S. Christian Wheeler
S. Christian Wheeler Stanford University
Duane T. Wegener
Duane T. Wegener The Ohio State University
Baba Shiv
Baba Shiv Stanford University
Eliot R. Smith
Eliot R. Smith Indiana University
Edward R. Hirt
Edward R. Hirt Indiana University
Gifford Weary
Gifford Weary The Ohio State University

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