Selective Exposure in the Internet Age: The Interaction between Anxiety and Information Utility

By Nicholas A. Valentino, A. Banks, Vincent L. Hutchings, A. Davis. 2009

249 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Communication, Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science

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In Communication

1. Timothy J. Ryan
2. Nicholas A. Valentino
3. S. Gadarian
4. B. Albertson
5. Dane G. Wendell
6. Scott Clifford
7. Eric W. Groenendyk
8. R. Kelly Garrett

In Political Science and International Relations

1. Timothy J. Ryan
2. Nicholas A. Valentino
3. Eric W. Groenendyk
4. S. Gadarian
5. B. Albertson
6. Dane G. Wendell
7. Scott Clifford
8. Ted Brader

In Sociology and Political Science

1. Timothy J. Ryan
2. Nicholas A. Valentino
3. Scott Clifford
4. Dane G. Wendell
5. Eric W. Groenendyk
6. B. Albertson
7. S. Gadarian
8. R. Kelly Garrett

Citations in the corpus

• Anxiety, Immigration, and the Search for Information (2014, background): “…& Ottati, 2002; Lerner & Keltner, 2001; Ottati, 1997; Roseman, Spindel, & Jose, 1990; Smith & Ellsworth, 1985) as well as political scientists (Valentino et al., 2009; Valentino et al., 2008) who found that by asking respondents to go through an exercise of listing their worries that…”
• What Makes Us Click? Demonstrating Incentives for Angry Discourse with Digital-Age Field Experiments (2012, background): “Conditional relationships have been identified for anxiety: Valentino and colleagues (Valentino et al. 2009) find anxiety not to be sufficient to elicit information search, but rather that the information available must additionally be useful, a result consistent with Witte and Allen’s (2000) meta-a”
• Politically Motivated Reinforcement Seeking: Reframing the Selective Exposure Debate (2009, background): “For example, there is significant evidence that attention to attitude-discrepant information is greater when such exposure is anticipated to be useful (Frey, 1986; Valentino et al., 2009).”
• How Disgust Influences Health Purity Attitudes (2016, background): “For example, anxiety causes increased political information search (Gadarian and Albertson 2014; Valentino et al. 2009).”
• Election Night’s Alright for Fighting: The Role of Emotions in Political Participation (2011, background): “When counterattitudinal information is useful to the individual, anxiety may reduce selective exposure (Valentino et al. 2009).”