Many of the chapters in the present volume discuss variables or situations that affect the outcome of resistance, the process of resistance, or people’s motivation to resist. The present chapter differs in that the authors’ interest lies in identifying personality attributes or aspects of the individual related to resistance. The authors focus their discussion on individual differences in resistance expected to be constant across topics, sources, situations, and so on. Thus, the authors deal primarily with resistance as a quality of a person. In this chapter, they introduce a new meta-cognitive approach to understand individual differences in resistance. That is, they examine individuals’ meta-cognitions about their own resistance. They begin by providing a brief review of past work on individual differences in resistance, and they suggest that future research could benefit from adopting a meta-cognitive perspective. Finally, the authors present empirical evidence and apply the meta-cognitive framework to understand: how individuals’ beliefs affect their actual resistance to persuasion (resistance as an outcome); the qualities an individual possesses (resistance as a quality); and the processes by which an individual chooses to resist (resistance as a process) when his or her goal is to resist (resistance as a motivation).