News, Politics, and Negativity

2015

209 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Sociology and Political Science

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/624f14379e47199395e1a954c6802c2865336344

Citations in the corpus

• Confirmation Bias, Ingroup Bias, and Negativity Bias in Selective Exposure to Political Information (2020, unknown): “Oftentimes, an evolutionary perspective is used to explain this overarching effect (Shoemaker, 1996; Soroka & McAdams, 2015), arguing that humans are hardwired to watch out for threats in the interest of survival and respond more strongly to negative stimuli with greater attention and stronger…”
• Coronavirus Fears and Macroeconomic Expectations (2020, unknown): “Readers of print news (including newspapers) are more attentive to and concerned about coronavirus, perhaps because newspapers cover the economy more than other media platforms and frequently exhibit “negativity bias” (Soroka & McAdams, 2015; Binder, 2017b).”
• Partisan Provocation: The Role of Partisan News Use and Emotional Responses in Political Information Sharing in Social Media (2016, unknown): “Partisans are more likely to have stronger affective responses to political news and information (Arpan & Nabi, 2011; Iyengar et al., 2012; Reid, 2012), and negative news elicits stronger emotions in general (Soroka & McAdams, 2015).”