Good News and Bad News: Asymmetric Responses to Economic Information

By Stuart Soroka. Journal of Politics, 2006

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Subfields: Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics

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The Role of Media for Inflation Forecast Disagreement of Households and Professionals (2012, neutral): “4Other studies consider the relation of media activity and consumer sentiment about real economic activity rather than inflation and confirm the relevance of media reporting, see Doms and Morin (2004) and Soroka (2006).”
Macroeconomics, economic crisis and electoral outcomes: A national European pool (2014, background): “This effect can be further enhanced by negativity bias in the media as well (Soroka, 2006).”
Public Management at the Ballot Box: Performance Information and Electoral Support for Incumbent English Local Governments (2006, background): “It has previously been found in a range of contexts, notably political perceptions of candidates (Lau 1982, 1985), public opinion (Soroka 2006), and economic voting.”
Perceptions and expectations of price changes and inflation: A review and conceptual framework (2008, background): “In a recent study, Soroka (2006) argued that media reports of economic news may amplify the asymmetry of individual responses to positive and negative changes such as the asymmetric perceptions of price increases and decreases discussed in the previous sub-section.”
News on Inflation and the Epidemiology of Inflation Expectations (2013, background): “15 According to Hamilton (2004) and Soroka (2006), a common finding in literature on news coverage is that there is more reporting of”
Moderating Effect of Group Cue While Processing News on Immigration: Is the Framing Effect a Heuristic Process? (2009, background): “, economic changes), have asymmetric effects: negative news is not only more present in the media but also has a greater impact on attitudes toward and perception of socioeconomic problems (Soroka, 2006).”
Affective News: The Automated Coding of Sentiment in Political Texts (2012, background): “See, for example, Bloom and Price (1975); Fair (1978); Ito, Larsen, Smith, and Cacioppo (1998); Kahneman and Tversky (1979); Quattrone and Tversky (1988); and Soroka (2006).”
How Media Coverage of Corporate Social Irresponsibility Increases Financial Risk (2017, neutral): “In order to cater to this fundamental human preference, the media has a strong negativity bias (Niven, 2001; Soroka, 2008), and firms struggle to publicize positive CSR information via the media (Illia, Zyglidopoulos, Romenti, Rodríguez-Cánovas, & Brena, 2013).”