Risky Politics: Applying the Planned Risk Information Seeking Model to the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election

Kahlor, Lee Ann; Yang, Janet Z.; Liang, Ming-Ching

doi:10.1080/15205436.2018.1498900

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“…Of these PRISM variables, the affective factors (e.g., fear and anxiety) play central roles in the need for more information [ 33 ]. The model has been applied in fields such as climate change [ 36 ], political campaigns [ 37 ], health, and risk communication [ 38 ]. For example, Hovick expanded the framework by incorporating source beliefs, prior seeking, and results into the PRISM on cancer-related topics [ 39 ].…”

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Media Exposure, Cancer Beliefs, and Cancer-Related Information-Seeking or Avoidance Behavior Patterns in China

2021

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This study explored the relationships between media exposure, cancer beliefs, and cancer information-seeking or information-avoidance behaviors. Based on the planned risk information-seeking model and its extended framework, two predictive models were constructed: one for cancer information seeking and the other for cancer information avoidance. A structural equation modeling strategy was applied to survey data from China HINTS 2017 (n = 3090) to compare the impact of traditional mass media and social media exposure to cancer-related information on cancer information-seeking and information-avoidance behaviors. The study findings suggest that health-related information exposure through different media channels may generate distinctive information-seeking or information-avoidance behaviors based on various cancer beliefs. Additionally, the findings indicate that social media exposure to health-related and cancer curability beliefs does not lead to cancer information avoidance; both mass media and social media exposure encourage people to seek cancer-related information. Cancer fatalism is positively associated with cancer information-seeking and avoiding intentions, suggesting that negative cancer beliefs predict seemingly contradictory yet psychologically coherent information intentions and behaviors.

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Media Exposure, Cancer Beliefs, and Cancer-Related Information-Seeking or Avoidance Behavior Patterns in China

2021

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“…Past research has shown that perceived hazard characteristics can elicit strong negative emotions, which subsequently increase information insufficiency and motivate communication behaviors (Kahlor, 2007). Several other studies, however, demonstrate that both negative and positive affective responses to risk, such as anger, worry, and optimistic feelings, may influence information seeking and processing directly (Griffin et al, 2008; Kahlor et al, 2018). The risk perception literature has a tradition of evaluating risks and benefits together, especially in relation to new technologies (Siegrist et al, 2000; Slovic et al, 2004).…”

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Information Seeking and Processing in the Context of Vaccine Scandals

Yang

Liu

2020

Science Communication

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This study employs the risk information seeking and processing (RISP) model to examine social cognitive variables that motivate active information seeking and systematic processing. The research context is the recent childhood vaccine scandals in China. As a novel contribution to the RISP literature, a significant interaction between relevant channel beliefs and perceived information gathering capacity is unveiled. This result suggests that both information quality and accessibility to information channels influence information seeking, which is an important finding with theoretical and practical implications for other science communication issues.

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“…Both cognitive risk perceptions (termed as perceived hazard characteristics) and affective responses to risk could trigger a greater need for information. Past research has shown that risk perception could elicit strong negative emotions, which subsequently increase information insufficiency and motivate communication behaviors (Kahlor, 2007(Kahlor, , 2010; Several other studies, however, have demonstrated that affective responses to risk, such as anger and worry, may influence information seeking directly (Griffin et al, 2008;Kahlor, Yang, & Liang, 2018). Reviewing these studies together, affective responses seem to have a more direct relationship with information seeking when the risks are better understood by the public and elicit stronger emotional reactions, such as the risks from sexual assault (Pokrywczynski, Griffin, & Calhoun, 2019).…”

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Information Seeking and Information Sharing Related to Hurricane Harvey

Yang

Zhuang

2019

Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly

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This study is focused on social cognitive variables that motivate information seeking and information sharing related to Hurricane Harvey. Survey results from a nationally representative sample and a quota sample of Houston residents indicate that climate change beliefs and issue salience are consistent predictors of risk perception, which increases individuals’ negative emotions and information insufficiency. This need for information subsequently motivates information seeking and information sharing. Informational subjective norms are significantly related to seeking and sharing in the Houston sample, whereas perceived information gathering capacity and trust in media are significant predictors in the national sample.

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Risky Politics: Applying the Planned Risk Information Seeking Model to the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election

Cited by 22 publications

References 53 publications

Media Exposure, Cancer Beliefs, and Cancer-Related Information-Seeking or Avoidance Behavior Patterns in China

Media Exposure, Cancer Beliefs, and Cancer-Related Information-Seeking or Avoidance Behavior Patterns in China

Information Seeking and Processing in the Context of Vaccine Scandals

Information Seeking and Information Sharing Related to Hurricane Harvey

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