When people make public statements regarding their attitudes, they are more likely to resist later counterattitudinal messages. they are less likely to resist counterattitudinal messages. their tendency to resist counterattitudinal messages is unchanged. they are unlikely to change the attitudes of others?

When people make public statements regarding their attitudes, they are more likely to resist later counter-attitudinal messages. In addition, the counter-attitudinal behavior is a feature of research in the forced obedience paradigm of cognitive dissonance philosophy to make dissonance by requiring someone engage in counter-attitudinal advocacy typically, advocating a position that is at alteration with his or her attitudes.