Reading between the Photographs: The Influence of Incidental Pictorial Information on Issue Perception

By Rhonda Gibson, Dolf Zillmann. 2000

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Sociology and Political Science

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The Effects of Message Framing and Visual Image on Persuasion (2013, background): “…demonstrates that the addition of a picture to a news story is sufficient to elevate the perceived risk of various threats including melanoma (Zillmann & Gan, 1996), farm failure and roller coasters (Zillmann, Gibson, & Sargent, 1999), as well as tick-borne diseases (Gibson & Zillmann, 2000).”
Framing News Stories: The Role of Visual Imagery in Priming Racial Stereotypes (2006, background): “However, there is little research on the impact of implicit information (extra-text information, implied in visuals) on perceptions of issues reported in the media (Gibson & Zillman, 2000 ).”
Effects of Photographs on the Selective Reading of News Reports (2001, methodology): “An experiment by Gibson and Zillmann (2000) further established that readers’ estimation of risks projected by the news tends to increase with danger-signaling photographs presented in the reports.”
Media's influence on immigration attitudes: An intergroup threat theory approach (2016, background): “Not only is information provided by such exemplars more easily recalled (Zillmann & Brosius, 2000), but these exemplars also serve as a visual frame, influencing how consumers interpret this message (e.g., Gibson & Zillmann, 2000), which likely includes both cognitive and affective components.”
News Coverage of Social Protests and the Effects of Photographs and Prior Attitudes (2006, background): “…especially emotional or noxious ones such as those often shown in news coverage, are more readily encoded (Aust & Zillmann, 1996; Zillmann & Gan, 1996) in a way that makes them more persistently available in memory than verbal or textual information (Bower & Cohen, 1982; Gibson & Zillmann, 2000).”
A Clearer Picture: The Contribution of Visuals and Text to Framing Effects (2015, unknown): “However, with a few exceptions (e.g., Arpan et al., 2006; Gibson & Zillmann, 2000; Iyer, Webster, Hornsey, & Vanman, 2014; Pfau et al., 2006), this research has focused on framing effects produced by an news story’s text, while the effect that images have on the viewer remains relatively…”