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Choice Matters: Responses to Political Information Vary in Randomized vs. Selective Exposure Contexts
Mass Communication and Society ( IF 3.256 ) Pub Date : 2021-04-27 , DOI: 10.1080/15205436.2021.1905849
Juliana Fernandes 1 , Nicky Lewis 2 , Cheng Hong 3
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ABSTRACT

Three studies (study 1, 2a and 2b) were conducted to examine the effects of exposure type (randomized, selective) to negative and positive political information. Study 1 focused on a randomized exposure situation whereas study 2a and 2b investigated selective exposure conditions. Participants (N = 274 for study 1, N = 197 for study 2a, and N = 197 for study 2b) were recruited on Amazon Mechanical Turk. Drawing from the literature on negativity bias and socioemotional selectivity theory (SST), we found young individuals, as compared to older individuals, were more affected by negative political information, but only when exposure to the information was randomized. When given the opportunity for selective exposure to positive, negative, or neutral political information, effects associated with SST and the negativity bias were weakened while effects associated with political uses and approaches were bolstered. Implications as to how different types of exposure to negative and positive political information influence responses to information and their relation to SST, negativity bias, and uses and gratifications are discussed.



中文翻译:

选择很重要:在随机与选择性暴露背景下对政治信息的反应各不相同

摘要

进行了三项研究(研究 1、2a 和 2b)来检查暴露类型(随机、选择性)对负面和正面政治信息的影响。研究 1 侧重于随机暴露情况,而研究 2a 和 2b 研究了选择性暴露条件。参与者(研究 1 为N  = 274,研究 2a 为N = 197,N= 197 用于研究 2b)在 Amazon Mechanical Turk 上招募。从关于消极偏见和社会情绪选择性理论 (SST) 的文献中,我们发现,与老年人相比,年轻人更容易受到负面政治信息的影响,但前提是这些信息是随机的。当有机会选择性地接触正面、负面或中立的政治信息时,与 SST 和负面偏见相关的影响被削弱,而与政治用途和方法相关的影响得到加强。讨论了不同类型的负面和正面政治信息暴露如何影响对信息的反应及其与 SST、负面偏见以及使用和满足的关系。

更新日期:2021-04-27
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