Biased Assimilation of Sociopolitical Arguments: Evaluating the 1996 U.S. Presidential Debate

By G. Munro, Peter H. Ditto, Lisa K. Lockhart, A. Fagerlin, M. Gready, Elizabeth Peterson. 2002

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Subfields: Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Understanding Environmental Cognition (2012, background): “Biased assimilation refers to the tendency of individuals to interpret arguments and evidence in a way that tends to support their prior belief systems (Hoffman & Henn, 2008; Innes, 1978; Lord, Ross, & Lepper, 1979; Munro & Ditto, 1997; Munro et al., 2002).”
Tweeting From Left to Right (2015, background): “…symmetrical patterns of selective exposure, dissonance avoidance, and ideological conformity (Iyengar & Hahn, 2009; KnoblochWesterwick & Meng, 2009; Munro et al., 2002; Nisbet, Cooper, & Garrett, 2015), whereas others have suggested that conservatives are indeed more likely than liberals to…”
The Logic of Policy Change after Crisis : Proximity and Subsystem Interaction (2010, background): “Second, actors will interpret stimuli to confirm their belief system (Lord et al. 1979; Munro et al. 2002).”
Echo chambers online?: Politically motivated selective exposure among Internet news users (2009, background): “Biased-assimilation theory predicts that people will spend more time processing information with which they disagree because they tend to be more critical of it, and spend more time looking for its flaws (Lord, Ross, & Lepper, 1979; Munro et al., 2002).”
EDUCATION AND MENTAL HEALTH STIGMA: THE EFFECTS OF ATTRIBUTION, BIASED ASSIMILATION, AND ATTITUDE POLARIZATION (2008, background): “…(Pomerantz et al., 1995), environmental issues (Pomerantz et al., 1995), the John F. Kennedy assassination (McHoskey, 1995), presidential debates (Munro et al., 2002), technology failures (Plous, 1991), and homosexuality (Boysen & Vogel, 2008; Munro & Ditto, 1997; Munro, Leary, & Lasane, 2004).”
Ideological Asymmetries and the Essence of Political Psychology (2017, background): “There are sound reasons to assume that selective exposure and network homophily would be equally prominent on the left and the right, including the suppositions that cognitive dissonance reduction, social identity maintenance, and motivated reasoning are ubiquitous phenomena (Hogg, 2007; Kahan, 2016”
The Automaticity of Affect for Political Leaders, Groups, and Issues: An Experimental Test of the Hot Cognition Hypothesis (2005, background): “…and automaticity of affect kick-start the processes that spark motivated biases when citizens encounter attitudinally contrary information (Ditto & Lopez, 1992; Huang & Price, 2001; Lord, Ross, & Lepper, 1979; McGraw et al., 1996; Munro et al., 2002; Sigelman & Sigelman, 1984; Taber & Lodge, 2001).”