Reflecting on Six Decades of Selective Exposure Research: Progress, Challenges, and Opportunities

By Steven M. Smith, L. Fabrigar, Meghan E. Norris. 2008

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Subfields: Applied Psychology, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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In Applied Psychology

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In Social Psychology

1. Benjamin K. Johnson
2. Silvia Knobloch-Westerwick
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Citations in the corpus

• A typology of consumer strategies for resisting advertising, and a review of mechanisms for countering them (2015, background): “Most research on selective exposure is conducted in the fields of political and health communication (for a review see Smith, Fabrigar, and Norris 2008).”
• Information Avoidance: Who, What, When, and Why (2010, background): “…demonstrated in myriad studies of selective exposure, people tend to seek information that confirms their attitudes, beliefs, and decisions, and avoid information that disconfirms their attitudes, beliefs, and decisions (see Smith et al., 2008, for a review; see also Kunda, 1990; Nickerson, 1998).”
• Selective use of news cues: : A multiple-motive perspective on information selection in social media environments (2016, background): “Therefore, as argued by Smith, Fabrigar, and Norris (2008), selective exposure research would benefit from a stronger consideration of moderator variables.”
• Confirmation biases in selective exposure to political online information: Source bias vs. content bias (2017, background): “First off, both NFC and CR moderated the confirmation bias, which adds to the scarce insight on what traits affect this phenomenon (Hart et al., 2009; Smith et al., 2008).”
• Confirmation Bias, Ingroup Bias, and Negativity Bias in Selective Exposure to Political Information (2020, background): “Thus, with the second hypothesis, the present work will also examine whether these stable interindividual differences in information processing styles influence the confirmation bias—also in light of the fact that the ample related research has only rarely considered such traits (Hart et al., 2009; ”