Motivated Processing

By Chingching Chang. 2015

92 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Literature and Literary Theory, Sociology and Political Science

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Citations in the corpus

Defining Misinformation and Understanding its Bounded Nature: Using Expertise and Evidence for Describing Misinformation (2020, background): “experience confusion about the specific guidelines, but may also decrease trust in the scientific community issuing these competing recommendations (Chang, 2015; Clark, Nagler, & Niederdeppe, 2019).”
Politicization and Polarization in COVID-19 News Coverage (2020, background): “When such coverage is both highly politicized and polarized, motivated reasoning (Taber et al., 2009) and a predisposition of the public to rely on political over scientific views (Bolsen et al., 2014; Slothuus & de Vreese, 2010) mean that news coverage can amplify partisan differences in risk…”
The Effects of Uncertainty Frames in Three Science Communication Topics (2019, background): “Internal certainty is an individual’s own opinion of the degree to which a claim or research finding is (un)certain (e.g., Binder et al., 2016; Chang, 2015), and has most commonly been measured with self-report Likert-style measures that often contain only one item (e.g., “I am certain that...”)…”
A Meta-Analytic Examination of the Continued Influence of Misinformation in the Face of Correction: How Powerful Is It, Why Does It Happen, and How to Stop It? (2019, background): “In short, both biases suggest that when motivated to reach a certain conclusion, people can vary their level of attention and scrutiny of information to support their preferences (Chang, 2015).”