The Effects of Negativity and Motivated Information Processing During a Political Campaign.

By Michael F. Meffert, Sungeun Chung, Amber J. Joiner, L. Waks, J. Garst. 2006

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Subfields: Communication, Literature and Literary Theory, Sociology and Political Science

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Getting real: the duration of framing effects (2011, background): “1 The literature argues a ‘‘negativity bias’’ when it comes to valenced media content (e.g., Meffert et al., 2006).”
Effects of Valence and Extremity of eWOM on Attitude toward the Brand and Website (2009, background): “Although positivity effect has been found in some contexts (see Skowronski and Carlston 1987), research on impression formation often reports that negative (versus equally extreme positive) information about a person’s behavior carries more weight and has a greater influence on impressions formed ab”
Partisan Paths to Exposure Diversity: Differences in Pro‐ and Counterattitudinal News Consumption (2014, background): “Cross-cutting exposure can increase tolerance toward those who hold different points of view, and can help to keep polarization in check (Mutz, 2006, but see Meffert et al., 2006).”
Assessing Selective Exposure in Experiments: The Implications of Different Methodological Choices (2013, background): “Communication Methods and Measures, 7:172–194, 2013 Copyright © Taylor & Francis Group, LLC ISSN: 1931-2458 print/1931-2466 online DOI: 10.1080/19312458.2013.813923 Assessing Selective Exposure in Experiments: The Implications of Different Methodological Choices Lauren Feldman”
The appeal of nostalgia: the influence of societal pessimism on support for populist radical right parties (2018, background): “Research shows not only that elite cues from the political leaders of one’s party affect societal attitudes (Lenz 2009; Meffert et al. 2006; Slothuus 2015), but also that voting behaviour and attitudes affect one another, resulting in a spiral of increasingly polarised stances between groups of vote”
Polls, coalition signals and strategic voting: An experimental investigation of perceptions and effects (2007, background): “Similar to Lau and Redlawsk (2006) and Meffert et al. (2006), the information board displayed information sequentially.”
Consumer Demand for Cynical and Negative News Frames (2014, methodology): “Iyengar et al. (2004) and Tewksbury (2005, 2006) allow respondents to participate at home, in a more natural environment than the experimental lab setting used by Meffert et al. (2006).”
The Motivated Processing of Political Arguments (2009, background): “3 Research on the motivated processing of political arguments has shown that we should not expect citizens to approach political arguments or evidence evenhandedly (Lebo and Cassino 2007; Lodge and Taber 2000; Lord, Ross, and Lepper 1979; Meffert et al. 2006; Redlawsk 2002; Rudolph 2006; Taber 2003;”
Predicting the Vote: Implicit Attitudes as Predictors of the Future Behavior of Decided and Undecided Voters (2008, background): “, Meffert, Chung, Joiner, Waks, & Garst, 2006; Redlawsk, 2001), and in all stages of information processing, including interpretation and counterarguing (e.g., Ditto & Lopez, 1992; Meffert et al., 2006; Taber & Lodge, 2006).”