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In contemporary society, the political topics, party policy, and other political informations are widely supplied through a variety of medias.. But people do not have the ability or motivation to handle a lot of information carefully. As a result, the selective information processing comes to occur, either intentionally or unintentionally.Therefore, specific informations are even more accepted by recipients and so they would affect much more their political decision-making (Iyengar & Simon, 2000). How do people deal with and evaluate the political informations? How are our political attitudes formed and maintained? What are the personal factors involved in the processing of political information? To answer these questions, we manipulated information source, information contents, and information recipients characteristics on the basis of Lasswell's model of five major components. The findings show that under conditions to systematic processing, participants are more biased, and the direction of information processing depends on the characteristics of information sources and information recipients.

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