Irving L. Janis
Yale University
71 Papers
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Irving L. Janis is an academic researcher from Yale University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Personality & Persuasion. The author has an hindex of 43, co-authored 71 publications. Previous affiliations of Irving L. Janis include University of California, Berkeley.
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Decision Making: A Psychological Analysis of Conflict, Choice, and Commitment
Irving L. Janis,Leon Mann +1 more
- 01 Jan 1977
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a psychological analysis of conflict decision making, focusing on conflict, choice, and commitment, and conclude that conflict is a predictor of the likelihood of making a wrong decision.
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Groupthink : psychological studies of policy decisions and fiascoes
Irving L. Janis
- 01 Jan 1982
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present five case studies of major fiascoes resulting from poor decisions made during the administrations of five American presidents' Franklin D. Roosevelt (failure to be prepared for the attack on Pearl Harbor), Harry S Truman (the invasion of North Korea), John F. Kennedy (the Bay of Pigs invasion), Lyndon B. Johnson (escalation of the Vietnam War), and Richard M. Nixon (the Watergate cover-up).
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Communication and Persuasion: Psychological Studies of Opinion Change
Carl I. Hovland,Irving L. Janis,Harold H. Kelley +2 more
- 22 Feb 1982
TL;DR: In this paper, a report of a program of coordinated systematic research on variables determining the effects of persuasive communication is presented, with a focus on the effect of persuading messages on the effectiveness of persuasive messages.
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Effect of fear-arousing communications.
Irving L. Janis,Seymour Feshbach +1 more
TL;DR: The present experiment was designed to study the effects of one particular type of motive-incentive variable in persuasive communications, namely, the arousal of fear or anxiety by depicting potential dangers to which the audience might be exposed.
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