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Comm Theory - Social Judgment Theory

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Social Judgement - Involvement   Perception and evaluation of an idea by comparing it with current attitudes.  
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Latitude of Acceptance   The range of ideas that a person sees as reasonable or worthy of consideration.  
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Latitude of Rejection   The range of ideas that a person sees as unreasonable or objectionable.  
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Latitude of Noncommitment   The range of ideas that a person sees as neither acceptable nor objectionable.  
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Ego-Involvement   The importance or centrality of an issue to a person's life, often demonstrated by membership in a group with a known stand.  
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Contrast   A perceptual error whereby people judge messages that fall within their latitude of rejection as further from their anchor than they really are.  
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Assimilation   A perceptual error whereby people judge messages that fall within their latitude of acceptance as less discrepant from their anchor than they really are.  
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Booomerang Effect   Attitude change in the opposite direction of what the message advocates; listeners driven away from rather than drawn to an idea.  
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Reference Groups   Groups that members use to define their identity.  
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Pluralistic ignorance   The mistaken idea that everyone else is doing or thinking something that they aren't.  
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