The Affective Tipping Point: Do Motivated Reasoners Ever “Get It”?

By David P. Redlawsk, A. Civettini, K. Emmerson. 2010

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Subfields: General Decision Sciences, Safety Research, Sociology and Political Science

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The Generalizability of Survey Experiments* (2015, background): “Second, a sample of university staff completed the experiment in-person at individual laptop stations, and were compensated $15 (a la Kam et al. 2007; Redlawsk et al. 2010).”
Lazy, not biased: Susceptibility to partisan fake news is better explained by lack of reasoning than by motivated reasoning. (2019, unknown): “are more inclined to support a preferred political candidate when presented with negative information (up to a point; Redlawsk et al., 2010).”
Believing and sharing misinformation, fact-checks, and accurate information on social media: The role of anxiety during COVID-19 (2021, background): “Although anxiety can foster openness to information (Albertson and Gadarian, 2015; Redlawsk et al., 2010; Weeks, 2015)—perhaps, mitigating political bias—it can also enhance susceptibility to attitude-inconsistent information, even if the claims are false (Weeks, 2015).”
Emotions, Partisanship, and Misperceptions: How Anger and Anxiety Moderate the Effect of Partisan Bias on Susceptibility to Political Misinformation (2015, methodology): “The formation and persistence of political misperceptions are often attributed to a politically motivated need for consistency (e.g., Meirick, 2013; Nyhan & Reifler, 2010; 2 Journal of Communication (2015) © 2015 International Communication Association Weeks & Garrett, 2014; though, cf. Garrett, Nis”
Creating News Literacy Messages to Enhance Expert Corrections of Misinformation on Twitter (2020, background): “Theoretically, motivated reasoning only operates to a “tipping point”; if sufficient counter-attitudinal evidence is presented, people will adjust their attitudes (Festinger, 1957; Redlawsk et al., 2010).”
Does Counter-Attitudinal Information Cause Backlash? Results from Three Large Survey Experiments (2018, background): “Redlawsk et al. (2010) examine a hypothesized ‘affective tipping point’ or specific dose of counter-attitudinal information at which backlash stops and incorporation of the evidence begins.”
Legitimacy‐as‐Feeling: How Affect Leads to Vertical Legitimacy Spillovers in Transnational Governance (2014, unknown): “Also, at what point do differences become emotionally unsustainable, trigger a “mental alarm” (Tost, 2011), and engender the active revision of the internal affect heuristic (Redlawsk et al., 2010)?”
In Related News, That Was Wrong: The Correction of Misinformation Through Related Stories Functionality in Social Media (2015, background): “A second possibility may be that participants reached their affective “tipping point” of incongruence, where motivated reasoning still operates in evaluating stories but does not prevent updating of attitudes (Redlawsk et al., 2010).”