Proscriptive Injunctions Can Elicit Greater Reactance and Lower Legitimacy Perceptions Than Prescriptive Injunctions.

Pers Soc Psychol Bull · 2022 · PMC9066693 · PMID 34088247

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Further pairwise comparisons showed that the difference between the likelihood of following a proscriptive recommendation from a doctor compared with a family member approached significance, t = 1.82, p = .072, whereas the difference between the likelihood of following a prescriptive recommendation from a doctor compared with a family member was not significant, t = 0.42, p = .671.

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