Partisan selective exposure: The role of party, ideology and ideological extremity over time.

Rodriguez, Cristian Guillermo; Moskowitz, Jake P.; Salem, Rammy; Ditto, Peter H.

doi:10.1037/tps0000121

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“…Amid concerns about selective exposure and its influence on democratic society (Prior, 2013b; Stroud, 2011), these results suggest that those relying on self-reported measures may be overestimating the amount of news and political content these individuals are exposed to and potentially overstating the magnitude of the problem of selective exposure. This may also be reflected in the difference in the amount of polarization in news consumption uncovered by studies using self-reports (e.g., Garrett, 2009; Rodriguez, Moskowitz, Salem, & Ditto, 2017; Stroud, 2011) versus those relying on aggregate data (Nelson & Webster, 2017; Webster & Ksiazek, 2012; see Dvir-Gvirsman et al, 2016, for a similar argument).…”

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Who Is Exposed to News? It Depends on How You Measure: Examining Self-Reported Versus Behavioral News Exposure Measures

Vraga

Tully

2018

Social Science Computer Review

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Despite the importance of news exposure to political outcomes, news consumption is notoriously difficult to measure, and misreporting news exposure is common. In this study, we compare participants’ news behaviors measured on a news aggregator website with their self-reported story selection immediately after exposure. We find that both individual and contextual characteristics—especially the presence of political cues in news headlines—influence reporting of news story selection. As a result, the news audience profiles differ using self-reported versus behavioral measures, creating two different pictures of news exposure. More attention is needed to improve news measurement strategies to address misreporting and to improve the accuracy of news audience profiles.

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Who Is Exposed to News? It Depends on How You Measure: Examining Self-Reported Versus Behavioral News Exposure Measures

Vraga

Tully

2018

Social Science Computer Review

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“…Further, people have developed strong preferences for certain media formats and sources in the United States (Mitchell and Oliphant, 2020;Zitner and Chinni, 2020). These preferences are formed by the tendency for people to seek out (Rodriguez et al, 2017) and more favorably evaluate (a process referred to as "motivated skepticism") (Ditto and Lopez, 1992) information that supports their personal and political motives. Importantly, these divisions are not limited to traditional sources of media but have also extended to U.S. institutions which have, at times, been in disagreement about key information related to the spread, severity, duration, and prevention of COVID-19.…”

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The Role of News Consumption and Trust in Public Health Leadership in Shaping COVID-19 Knowledge and Prejudice

Dhanani

Franz

2020

Front. Psychol.

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The novelty of COVID-19 has created unique challenges to successful public health efforts because it has required the public to quickly learn and formulate knowledge and attitudes about the virus as information becomes available. The need to stay apprised of new information has also created a critical role for mass media and public institutions in shaping the public's knowledge of, attitudes about, and responses to the unfolding pandemic. In this study, we examine how media consumption and reliance on specific institutions for information shapes three critical outcomes associated with public health epidemics: the accumulation of knowledge and the endorsement of misinformation about COVID-19, and prejudicial responses to the virus. We surveyed 1,141 adults residing across the United States in March 2020. Using multivariate regression and t-tests, we found that participants had greater knowledge, were less likely to endorse misinformation, and reported less bias toward Asian Americans when they had higher trust in the CDC and lower trust in President Trump. Reliance on certain news formats and sources was also associated with knowledge, misinformation, and prejudice. Our findings suggest that trust and news consumption can pose critical barriers to health literacy and foster negative prejudicial responses that further undermine public health efforts surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic.

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“…Moreover, recent meta-analytic work indicates that individuals with ideological and partisan commitments on both sides of the spectrum exhibit motivated reasoning in Personality and political preferences -19 defense of their worldviews when challenged (Ditto et al, 2019; see also Cohen, 2003;Washburn & Skitka, 2017)-a tendency that might even increase with knowledge (Kahan, 2015). Similarly, both conservatives and liberals avoid opinions that diverge from their own (Collins, Crawford, & Brandt, 2017;Frimer, Skitka, & Motyl, 2017; but see Van Bavel, 2013, andRodriguez et al, 2017, for evidence that this tendency is somewhat stronger on the right).…”

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The Personality Basis of Political Preferences

Federico¹

2020

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In this chapter, I review current research on the relationship between personality and political preferences, with an eye to its complexities and the ways in which it is conditioned on other variables—including the contextual factors mentioned at the outset. To provide context, I briefly review research on the structure of political preferences. Next, I summarize a now-substantial body of work suggesting a relationship between rigidity in personality and right-wing political preferences, and then describe moderators of and boundary conditions to this relationship. Finally, in an effort to reconcile increasingly-varied findings on political differences in cognition and motivation, I offer an integrative perspective on when the relationship between rigidity and political differences will be ideologically asymmetric and when it will be symmetric.

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Partisan selective exposure: The role of party, ideology and ideological extremity over time.

Abstract: Partisan selective exposure: The role of party, ideology and ideological extremity over time.

Cited by 53 publications

References 84 publications

Who Is Exposed to News? It Depends on How You Measure: Examining Self-Reported Versus Behavioral News Exposure Measures

Who Is Exposed to News? It Depends on How You Measure: Examining Self-Reported Versus Behavioral News Exposure Measures

The Role of News Consumption and Trust in Public Health Leadership in Shaping COVID-19 Knowledge and Prejudice

The Personality Basis of Political Preferences

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