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Journal of Applied Psychology 1992

Roger, me, and my attitude: Film propaganda and cynicism toward corporate leadership.

Thomas S. Bateman1; Tomoaki Sakano2; Makoto Fujita2

1 U North Carolina, Kenan-Flagler Business School, Chapel Hill, US · 2 School of Commerce

Abstract

Two studies of U.S. and Japanese respondents assessed attitudes resulting from viewing the film Roger & Me (Moore, 1989). In Experiment 1, the responses of 162 adults who had seen the film in the U.S. were contrasted with 106 people about to view the film. Those who saw the film exhibited more cynical (negative) attitudes toward General Motors in particular and toward U.S. business in general. Experiment 2 employed a Solomon four-group design in Tokyo, Japan, to assess the generalizability of the U.S. results and also to assess attitude change from pretest to posttest

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10.1037/0021-9010.77.5.768
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