Vested Interests
Vested interest or Vested interests may refer to: * Vested interest (communication theory), a communication theory that seeks to explain how influences affect behavior * Vesting In law, vesting is the point in time when the rights and interests arising from legal ownership of a property are acquired by some person. Vesting creates an immediately secured right of present or future deployment. One has a vested right to a ...

Vested Interest (communication Theory)
Vested interest (Crano, 1983; Crano & Prislin, 1995; Sivacek & Crano, 1982) is a communication theory that seeks to explain how an Attitude (psychology), attitude of self-interest can affect behavior; or, in more technical terms, to question how certain hedonically relevant (Miller & Averbeck, 2013) , Retrieved from the CIOS http://www.cios.org/www.cios.org/EJCPUBLIC/023/3/023031.html , attitudinal dimensions can influence and consistently predict behavior based on the degree of subjective investment an individual has in a particular attitude object. As defined by William Crano, ''vested interest'' refers to the degree to which an attitude object an idea, concept, or value with potential emotional interest is deemed wikt:hedonic, hedonically relevant by the attitude holder. According to Crano, "an attitude object that has important perceived personal consequences for the individual will be perceived as highly vested. Highly vested attitudes will be functionally related to beh ...
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