Impact of Poll Results on Personal Opinions and Perceptions of Collective Opinion

Sonck, Nathalie; Loosveldt, Geert

doi:10.1093/ijpor/edp045

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“…Overall, across the UGCs-only, AURs-only, as well as UGCs-and-AURs conditions, the congruency of the opinion climate was found to influence participants' perceptions of the opinion climate regarding nuclear energy. These findings corroborate with the argument that users are made cognizant of other's attitudes toward an issue through opinion cues on online and social media, and generalize them to be representative of public opinion (Brosius, 1999;Sonck & Loosveldt, 2010;Zerback et al, 2015). This shows that people perceive the online opinion climate through different opinion cues and underscores the importance of examining both types of opinion cues in the investigation of perceptions of the opinion climate.…”

Section: Influence Of Opinion Cues On Perceptions Of the Opinion Climatesupporting

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“…The quantity of online user feedback was found to be associated with audiences' subsequent attitudes and behaviors (Duan, Gu, & Whinston, 2008;Ellison & Fudenberg, 1995). Specifically, research has provided evidence that audiences generalize numeric aggregations as being representative of public opinion (Daschmann, 2000;Sonck & Loosveldt, 2010;Zerback, Koch, & Krämer, 2015). In such instances, people rely on AURs as representations of the opinion climate to assess the acceptability or appropriateness of a point of view amid the abundance of information availability and attitude uncertainty regarding an obscure topic (e.g., nuclear energy; Flanagin & Metzger, 2008).…”

Section: Perceiving the Mediated Opinion Climatementioning

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Perceiving online public opinion : a study of the effects of Facebook opinion cues, opinion climate congruency, & source credibility on willingness to speak out

Leong¹

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I would also like to extend my gratitude to Dr. Benjamin Detenber for his insightful advice and suggestions that were immensely helpful for the formulation of my research ideas and played a crucial role in improving my writing. This journey would not be possible without the support and encouragement of my family. I am also thankful for my friends who have made these two years so much more enjoyable. Specifically, I would like to thank my officemates and Agnes for their friendship, support, and help, both academically and personally. I would also like to acknowledge the Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information for their administrative and financial support that has helped me to successfully complete this thesis. vii

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Perceiving online public opinion : a study of the effects of Facebook opinion cues, opinion climate congruency, & source credibility on willingness to speak out

Leong¹

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“…Those that do exist demonstrate contradictory results (e.g., Marsh, 1985;Nadeau, Cloutier, & Guay, 1993;Ragozzino & Hartman, 2014;Sonck & Loosveldt, 2010). Recent experiments that presented respondents with opinion polls showing varying levels of support for different political issues found that respondents did react to the treatment and moved in the direction of the perceived majority on somethough not all-of the issues (Rothschild & Malhotra, 2014).…”

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Do Polls Influence Opinions? Investigating Poll Feedback Loops Using the Novel Dynamic Response Feedback Experimental Procedure

Arnesen

Johannesson

Linde

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Social Science Computer Review

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Opinion polls may inadvertently affect public opinion, as people may change their attitudes after learning what others think. A disconcerting possibility is that opinion polls have the ability to create information cascades, wherein the majority opinion becomes increasingly larger over time. Testing poll influence on attitudes toward Syrian refugees and mandatory measles vaccination, we field survey experiments on a probability-based online survey panel. Through a novel automated procedure labeled the dynamic response feedback, we measure whether the answers from early poll respondents can influence the opinions of subsequent respondents who learn the answers of the previous respondents. Using this procedure, no feedback loops are identified.

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“…Nesta linha de pesquisa podem ser encontradas discussões mais aprofundadas sobre o tema, como, por exemplo, media e disseminação de informação, influência e audiência, opiniões pessoais e coletivas, e todas as suas consequências político-eleitorais. Para mais sobre o tema, verSonck & Loosveldt (2010).…”

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Pesquisas eleitorais afetam receitas de campanha: a correlação entre expectativa de vitória e financiamento de campanha em disputas ao Senado

Silva¹,

Gonçalves

2019

Rev. Sociol. Polit.

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RESUMO Introdução: Este artigo trata do financiamento de campanhas no Brasil. Embora não faltem evidências de que as arrecadações de campanha estão associadas ao sucesso eleitoral, pouco se sabe sobre o quanto a intenção de voto pode afetar o montante arrecadado pelos candidatos. Nosso objetivo é investigar este fenômeno. Materiais e Métodos: A análise empírica foi realizada com dados de prestações de contas eleitorais dos 134 candidatos ao Senado Federal em 2014 e com resultados de pesquisas de intenção de voto do instituto IBOPE. Utilizamos como ferramentas de análise estatísticas descritivas e regressão linear múltipla. Resultados: Os resultados atestam o impacto positivo das intenções de voto aferidas nas sondagens pré-eleitorais e do apoio do governador sobre as arrecadações totais. Já ser mandatário e candidato à reeleição (incumbency) foi um fator ineficaz para a explicação de quase todas as receitas. Discussão: Em virtude da associação encontrada entre intenção de voto e financiamento eleitoral, alertamos para a necessidade de considerar a existência de endogenia na relação entre dinheiro e voto nas disputas majoritárias, visto que as variáveis são mutuamente afetadas. Além disso, sugerimos que a relação entre viabilidade do candidato e financiamento eleitoral reafirma a ideia de que os doadores agem de maneira estratégica ao definir quais candidatos devem apoiar.Nesse sentido, doadores optam por candidaturas viáveis que contam com apoios políticos relevantes e oferecem, assim, menos riscos de derrota. PALAVRAS-CHAVE: financiamento de campanhas; expectativa de vitória; pesquisas eleitorais; Senado; eleições de 2014.Recebido em 30 de Janeiro de 2018. Aprovado em 5 de Março de 2019. Aceito em 11 de Março de 2019.Entretanto, se a hipótese de que a relação se dá inicialmente entre arrecadação de campanha e expectativa de vitória for verdadeira, isso pode ter consequências sobre o real efeito do dinheiro sobre o voto. Isto porque, como

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Impact of Poll Results on Personal Opinions and Perceptions of Collective Opinion

Cited by 40 publications

References 18 publications

Perceiving online public opinion : a study of the effects of Facebook opinion cues, opinion climate congruency, & source credibility on willingness to speak out

Perceiving online public opinion : a study of the effects of Facebook opinion cues, opinion climate congruency, & source credibility on willingness to speak out

Do Polls Influence Opinions? Investigating Poll Feedback Loops Using the Novel Dynamic Response Feedback Experimental Procedure

Pesquisas eleitorais afetam receitas de campanha: a correlação entre expectativa de vitória e financiamento de campanha em disputas ao Senado

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