The change of opinion during a political discussion

Abstract

Data collected by personal interview with people who heard a radio address relative to his association with the Ku Klux Klan by Hugo Black, just after his appointment to the Supreme Court, revealed that the main effect of the address was to form an attitude one way or another on the part of those individuals who originally had no opinion on the issue. The discussion of the appointment of Black was apparently a socio-political issue to begin with and turned into a racial-religious one. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)