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題名 Political Expertise and Affect: The Impact on News Processing
作者 徐美苓
HSU, MEI-LING
貢獻者 國立政治大學新聞學系
日期 1993
上傳時間 31-May-2010 14:52:46 (UTC+8)
摘要 An experiment was conducted to investigate the various conditions under which political expertise (or prior knowledge in the general political domain) and affect (positive or negative feelings) might interact with each other in shaping the cognitive strategies that people employ in forming reactions to newspaper stories. Two hundred six subjects from a major midwestern university were randomly assigned to a positive affect or a negative affect condition to read an article about either a proposed change in the state of Michigan`s student loan program or the proposed deputization of campus police. A thought-listing procedure was employed to analyze subjects` reactions to the articles. In line with expectations, political expertise emerged as an important contributor to analytic processing of the news articles (measured by the generation of total thoughts, issue-relevant thoughts, and arguments). Predicted main effects of affective valence were not observed, but an interaction between expertise and affect was found. Political experts, but not novices, generated more issue-relevant thoughts in the negative affect condition. Implications of these results for political communication research (e.g., campaign effects) are discussed.
關聯 Communication Research October, 20(5), 671-695
資料類型 article
DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/009365093020005003
dc.contributor 國立政治大學新聞學系en_US
dc.creator (作者) 徐美苓zh_TW
dc.creator (作者) HSU, MEI-LING-
dc.date (日期) 1993en_US
dc.date.accessioned 31-May-2010 14:52:46 (UTC+8)-
dc.date.available 31-May-2010 14:52:46 (UTC+8)-
dc.date.issued (上傳時間) 31-May-2010 14:52:46 (UTC+8)-
dc.identifier.uri (URI) http://nccur.lib.nccu.edu.tw/handle/140.119/40328-
dc.description.abstract (摘要) An experiment was conducted to investigate the various conditions under which political expertise (or prior knowledge in the general political domain) and affect (positive or negative feelings) might interact with each other in shaping the cognitive strategies that people employ in forming reactions to newspaper stories. Two hundred six subjects from a major midwestern university were randomly assigned to a positive affect or a negative affect condition to read an article about either a proposed change in the state of Michigan`s student loan program or the proposed deputization of campus police. A thought-listing procedure was employed to analyze subjects` reactions to the articles. In line with expectations, political expertise emerged as an important contributor to analytic processing of the news articles (measured by the generation of total thoughts, issue-relevant thoughts, and arguments). Predicted main effects of affective valence were not observed, but an interaction between expertise and affect was found. Political experts, but not novices, generated more issue-relevant thoughts in the negative affect condition. Implications of these results for political communication research (e.g., campaign effects) are discussed.-
dc.language en-USen_US
dc.language.iso en_US-
dc.relation (關聯) Communication Research October, 20(5), 671-695en_US
dc.title (題名) Political Expertise and Affect: The Impact on News Processingen_US
dc.type (資料類型) articleen
dc.identifier.doi (DOI) 10.1177/009365093020005003en_US
dc.doi.uri (DOI) http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/009365093020005003 en_US