Lisa Bryson

Political Equivocation: A Situational Explanation

Journal of Language and Social Psychology, Jun 1, 1988

RESEARCH NOTE Political Equivocation: A Situational Explanation Janet Beavin Bavelas, Alex Black,... more

A Situational Explanation of Discourse: The Case of Political Disqualification

Disqualification is vague, tangential, nonstraightforward communication. Previous research had sh... more Disqualification is vague, tangential, nonstraightforward communication. Previous research had shown that the disqualified speech of subjects who were role-playing poli ticians was the product of an avoidance-avoidance conflict. In the present field 'experiment, two groups of delegates at the Liberal Party of Canada leadership convention (1984) were asked, "Do you think the Liberals can win the next election under John Turner?" (the leading candidate). When responding to this question, delegates supporting Turner were not in any conflict. However, delegates supporting the second most popular candidate (Jean Chretien) were in an avoidance-avoidance conflict, that is, they did not want to say Turner could win, nor did they want to say their party would lose. The responses of the delegates in an avoidance-avoidance conflict were more disqualified than the responses of the delegates not in conflict. The implications of the resul ts of this simple conflict si tuation for the more complex confl ict situations that politicians often encounter are discussed .

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Political Equivocation: A Situational Explanation

Journal of Language and Social Psychology, 1988

RESEARCH NOTE Political Equivocation: A Situational Explanation Janet Beavin Bavelas, Alex Black,... more

A Situational Explanation of Discourse: The Case of Political Disqualification

Working Papers of the …, 1986

Disqualification is vague, tangential, nonstraightforward communication. Previous research had sh... more

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