Lilach Nir
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 1186261 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Lilach Nir |
| NOMBRES | Lilach |
| APELLIDO | Nir |
| FIRMA | NIR L |
| AFILIACIONES | Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1170-0152 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 22 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 709 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 22 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2002 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 12 |
Asymmetry in political polarization at multiple levels of bias
While some studies show ideological asymmetry in outgroup bias between rightists and leftists, those studies often target an ideologically biased outgroup. Here, we bypass this issue by targeting the ideological outgroups (rightists for leftists, and leftists for rightists). We rely on a magnetoencephalography‐based approach delineating function‐specific neural mechanisms to test for ideological asymmetries at multiple levels: explicit psychologi…
Negativity Biases and Political Ideology
There is a considerable body of work across the social sciences suggesting negativity biases in human attentiveness and decision-making. Recent research suggests that individual variation in negativity biases is correlated with political ideology: persons who have stronger physiological reactions to negative stimuli, this work argues, hold more conservative attitudes. However, such results have mostly been encountered in the United States. Does t…
Psychophysiology in the Study of Political Communication
The use of psychophysiological measures has been relatively common in the study of communication; there has been a recent increase in interest among political behavioralists as well. There has nevertheless been a limited body of work that uses psychophysiological measures to better understand the impact of political mass media content. This article presents the case for using psychophysiological measures to study political communication. Focusing…
Bridging Gaps in Cross-Cutting Media Exposure
Previous studies show that individual political interest is an antecedent of news media exposure, particularly of exposure to differing views. Nevertheless, little is known about this effect from a comparative perspective: How do media institutions affect the relationship between political interest and exposure to cross-cutting viewpoints? One institutional feature that varies between countries is the ownership of broadcast media. This study inve…
Social Representations, News Exposure, and Knowledge Gaps
Objective Studies show that public service broadcasters narrow knowledge gaps between politically interested and disinterested because such contexts encourage incidental learning. This reasoning, however, fails to explain why gendered knowledge differences persist in environments that equalize learning. Using stereotype threat theory, I argue that news content emits symbolic gender cues that encourage or discourage women to become politically inf…
Not All Countries Are Created Equal
Why do some countries appear more popular than others in mass media? Although researchers have long sought to explain foreign countries’ prevalence in the media, to date they have exclusively focused on news, leaving other types of media content unexplored. In addition, focusing on media effects and media content, the literature on entertainment and politics has largely ignored the study of agenda-building processes. Thus, this study fills these …
Do Women and Men Respond Differently to Negative News
This article offers a new approach to studying sex differences in responses to negative news, using real-time physiological responses as opposed to self-reports. Measurements of skin conductance and heart rate are used to examine whether there are differences in the extent to which women and men are aroused by and attentive to negative news stories. Like experiments that have relied on postexposure self-reports, we detect no sex differences in ar…
Receptivity to Violence in Ethnically Divided Societies
Although past scholarship shows that group inequalities in economic and political power (“Horizontal Inequalities”) correlate with dissent, violence, and civil wars, there is no direct empirical test of the perceptual explanation for this relationship at the individual level. Such explanation is vital to understanding how integration, inclusion in power-sharing agreements, and exclusion from political power filter down to mass publics. Moreover, …
A Tribute to Professor Wolfgang Donsbach
The WAPOR/IJPOR community was shocked and saddened by the unexpected passing of Professor Wolfgang Donsbach. He leaves behind an outstanding legacy of contributions to public opinion research and the social sciences, more generally. He was a scholar, a public intellectual, a mentor, and an institution builder. The International Journal of Public Opinion Research would not be what it is today without Professor Donsbach. He twice served as the jour…
Informal Political Conversation Across Time and Space
Journal Article Informal Political Conversation Across Time and Space: Setting the Research Agenda Get access David Nicolas Hopmann, David Nicolas Hopmann Centre for Journalism, Dept. of Political Science, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark David Nicolas Hopmann is associate professor of Media and Politics, received his PhD from the University of Southern Denmark (2009). His research focuses on mediated and interpersonal political communicat…
How Institutions Affect Gender Gaps in Public Opinion Expression
Journal Article How Institutions Affect Gender Gaps in Public Opinion Expression Get access Lilach Nir, Lilach Nir * Lilach Nir is an associate professor in the Departments of Political Science and Communication and Journalism at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel. Scott D. McClurg is a professor in the Department of Political Science and the School of Journalism at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL, USA. The authors…
How politics-news parallelism invigorates partisanship strength
Although past research has found that news exposure correlates with strong partisanship, insights are based on single-country studies. Other studies have shown that cross-national variations in news systems correlate with turnout, but have not explored partisanship. The current study fills this gap by testing the strength of the relationship between news exposure and partisanship cross-nationally. We argue that the greater the political paralleli…
Cross-National Differences in Political Discussion
Even though many researchers devoted considerable attention to political discussion and its individual-level antecedents and outcomes, insights are based on single-country studies. Cross-national variations were either never studied or implicitly equated to the U.S. context. This study integrates explanations from communication and comparative politics to test whether political system features (e.g., electoral competitiveness and multiple parties…
Motivated Reasoning and Public Opinion Perception
Theorists posit that a public—unlike a mass of individuals—forms opinions through awareness of multiple viewpoints and recognition of opposition in a polity. Whether individuals pursue information on others’ political preferences is another matter. While some are motivated to seek as much information as possible, others seek information that supports their own preference. This differential pattern of awareness has implications for individuals’ as…
Disagreement and Opposition in Social Networks
Scholars studying the effects of political disagreement on participation have advanced competing propositions and mixed evidence to bear on whether disagreement in discussion networks either mobilizes or demobilizes voters. This article proposes that the seeming contradiction is due to different conceptual definitions of disagreement. Briefly, researchers have implicitly defined and measured disagreement in the respondents' political discussion n…
Not Necessarily the News
In 1992, when vice president of the United States Dan Quayle lashed out against fictional television personality Murphy Brown for glamorizing single motherhood and mocking the importance of fathers
Campaign Mixed-Message Flows and Timing of Vote Decision
Journal Article Campaign Mixed-Message Flows and Timing of Vote Decision Get access Lilach Nir, Lilach Nir Lilach Nir (Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania) is an Assistant Professor in the Departments of Political Science and Communication at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her research explores the consequences of information diversity for citizens' political reasoning, perceptions and behavior. She has published articles in Communication Theo…
Normative and Informational Influences in Online Political Discussions
How do the statements made by people in online political discussions affect other people's willingness to express their own opinions, or argue for them? And how does group interaction ultimately shape individual opinions? We examine carefully whether and how patterns of group discussion shape (a) individuals’ expressive behavior within those discussions and (b) changes in personal opinions. This research proposes that the argumentative “climate” …
Ambivalent Social Networks and Their Consequences for Participation
Does perceived disagreement in political discussion help or hinder citizens’ political participation? Some argue that disagreement prompts reflection, perspective-taking, and tolerance. Challengers argue that disagreement fosters ambivalence and hinders participatory activities and turnout. One seminal study that tackled this dilemma formulated the ‘cross-pressures’ hypothesis (Lazarsfeld, Berelson, & Gaudet, 1944/1968), which posited that the mo…
Framing Public Discussion of Gay Civil Unions
Journal Article Framing Public Discussion of Gay Civil Unions Get access Vincent Price, Vincent Price vincent price and joseph n. cappella are professors in the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania, where lilach nir is a postdoctoral research associate. This research was supported by grants to Vincent Price and Joseph N. Cappella from the Pew Charitable Trusts and the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of P…
Argument Repertoire as a Reliable and Valid Measure of Opinion Quality
A new measure of opinion quality that we name "argument repertoire" (AR) is introduced and evaluated. AR refers to the relevant reasons that one has for one's own opinions and the relevant reasons that others with opposite opinions might have. The measure is shown to be reliable and to have construct validity. Those with elevated AR also were more likely to attend on-line deliberative groups during the presidential election and to contribute to t…
Does Disagreement Contribute to More Deliberative Opinion
Theorists have argued that discussion and disagreement are essential components of sound public opinion, and indeed that both are necessary for effective democracy. But their putative benefits have not been well tested. Consequently, this article examines whether disagreement in political conversation contributes to opinion quality--specifically, whether it expands one's understanding of others' perspectives. Data are drawn from a survey of the A…
Does Disagreement Contribute to More Deliberative Opinion
Theorists have argued that discussion and disagreement are essential components of sound public opinion, and indeed that both are necessary for effective democracy. But their putative benefits have not been well tested. Consequently, this article examines whether disagreement in political conversation contributes to opinion quality--specifically, whether it expands one's understanding of others' perspectives. Data are drawn from a survey of the A…
Motivated Reasoning and Public Opinion Perception
Theorists posit that a public—unlike a mass of individuals—forms opinions through awareness of multiple viewpoints and recognition of opposition in a polity. Whether individuals pursue information on others’ political preferences is another matter. While some are motivated to seek as much information as possible, others seek information that supports their own preference. This differential pattern of awareness has implications for individuals’ as…
Argument Repertoire as a Reliable and Valid Measure of Opinion Quality
A new measure of opinion quality that we name "argument repertoire" (AR) is introduced and evaluated. AR refers to the relevant reasons that one has for one's own opinions and the relevant reasons that others with opposite opinions might have. The measure is shown to be reliable and to have construct validity. Those with elevated AR also were more likely to attend on-line deliberative groups during the presidential election and to contribute to t…
Ambivalent Social Networks and Their Consequences for Participation
Does perceived disagreement in political discussion help or hinder citizens’ political participation? Some argue that disagreement prompts reflection, perspective-taking, and tolerance. Challengers argue that disagreement fosters ambivalence and hinders participatory activities and turnout. One seminal study that tackled this dilemma formulated the ‘cross-pressures’ hypothesis (Lazarsfeld, Berelson, & Gaudet, 1944/1968), which posited that the mo…
Framing Public Discussion of Gay Civil Unions
Journal Article Framing Public Discussion of Gay Civil Unions Get access Vincent Price, Vincent Price vincent price and joseph n. cappella are professors in the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania, where lilach nir is a postdoctoral research associate. This research was supported by grants to Vincent Price and Joseph N. Cappella from the Pew Charitable Trusts and the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of P…
Disagreement and Opposition in Social Networks
Scholars studying the effects of political disagreement on participation have advanced competing propositions and mixed evidence to bear on whether disagreement in discussion networks either mobilizes or demobilizes voters. This article proposes that the seeming contradiction is due to different conceptual definitions of disagreement. Briefly, researchers have implicitly defined and measured disagreement in the respondents' political discussion n…
Normative and Informational Influences in Online Political Discussions
How do the statements made by people in online political discussions affect other people's willingness to express their own opinions, or argue for them? And how does group interaction ultimately shape individual opinions? We examine carefully whether and how patterns of group discussion shape (a) individuals’ expressive behavior within those discussions and (b) changes in personal opinions. This research proposes that the argumentative “climate” …
Campaign Mixed-Message Flows and Timing of Vote Decision
Journal Article Campaign Mixed-Message Flows and Timing of Vote Decision Get access Lilach Nir, Lilach Nir Lilach Nir (Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania) is an Assistant Professor in the Departments of Political Science and Communication at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her research explores the consequences of information diversity for citizens' political reasoning, perceptions and behavior. She has published articles in Communication Theo…
Negativity Biases and Political Ideology
There is a considerable body of work across the social sciences suggesting negativity biases in human attentiveness and decision-making. Recent research suggests that individual variation in negativity biases is correlated with political ideology: persons who have stronger physiological reactions to negative stimuli, this work argues, hold more conservative attitudes. However, such results have mostly been encountered in the United States. Does t…
Not Necessarily the News
In 1992, when vice president of the United States Dan Quayle lashed out against fictional television personality Murphy Brown for glamorizing single motherhood and mocking the importance of fathers
How Institutions Affect Gender Gaps in Public Opinion Expression
Journal Article How Institutions Affect Gender Gaps in Public Opinion Expression Get access Lilach Nir, Lilach Nir * Lilach Nir is an associate professor in the Departments of Political Science and Communication and Journalism at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel. Scott D. McClurg is a professor in the Department of Political Science and the School of Journalism at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL, USA. The authors…
Do Women and Men Respond Differently to Negative News
This article offers a new approach to studying sex differences in responses to negative news, using real-time physiological responses as opposed to self-reports. Measurements of skin conductance and heart rate are used to examine whether there are differences in the extent to which women and men are aroused by and attentive to negative news stories. Like experiments that have relied on postexposure self-reports, we detect no sex differences in ar…
Receptivity to Violence in Ethnically Divided Societies
Although past scholarship shows that group inequalities in economic and political power (“Horizontal Inequalities”) correlate with dissent, violence, and civil wars, there is no direct empirical test of the perceptual explanation for this relationship at the individual level. Such explanation is vital to understanding how integration, inclusion in power-sharing agreements, and exclusion from political power filter down to mass publics. Moreover, …
Psychophysiology in the Study of Political Communication
The use of psychophysiological measures has been relatively common in the study of communication; there has been a recent increase in interest among political behavioralists as well. There has nevertheless been a limited body of work that uses psychophysiological measures to better understand the impact of political mass media content. This article presents the case for using psychophysiological measures to study political communication. Focusing…
Bridging Gaps in Cross-Cutting Media Exposure
Previous studies show that individual political interest is an antecedent of news media exposure, particularly of exposure to differing views. Nevertheless, little is known about this effect from a comparative perspective: How do media institutions affect the relationship between political interest and exposure to cross-cutting viewpoints? One institutional feature that varies between countries is the ownership of broadcast media. This study inve…
How politics-news parallelism invigorates partisanship strength
Although past research has found that news exposure correlates with strong partisanship, insights are based on single-country studies. Other studies have shown that cross-national variations in news systems correlate with turnout, but have not explored partisanship. The current study fills this gap by testing the strength of the relationship between news exposure and partisanship cross-nationally. We argue that the greater the political paralleli…
Not All Countries Are Created Equal
Why do some countries appear more popular than others in mass media? Although researchers have long sought to explain foreign countries’ prevalence in the media, to date they have exclusively focused on news, leaving other types of media content unexplored. In addition, focusing on media effects and media content, the literature on entertainment and politics has largely ignored the study of agenda-building processes. Thus, this study fills these …
Informal Political Conversation Across Time and Space
Journal Article Informal Political Conversation Across Time and Space: Setting the Research Agenda Get access David Nicolas Hopmann, David Nicolas Hopmann Centre for Journalism, Dept. of Political Science, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark David Nicolas Hopmann is associate professor of Media and Politics, received his PhD from the University of Southern Denmark (2009). His research focuses on mediated and interpersonal political communicat…
Asymmetry in political polarization at multiple levels of bias
While some studies show ideological asymmetry in outgroup bias between rightists and leftists, those studies often target an ideologically biased outgroup. Here, we bypass this issue by targeting the ideological outgroups (rightists for leftists, and leftists for rightists). We rely on a magnetoencephalography‐based approach delineating function‐specific neural mechanisms to test for ideological asymmetries at multiple levels: explicit psychologi…
Argument Repertoire as a Reliable and Valid Measure of Opinion Quality
A new measure of opinion quality that we name "argument repertoire" (AR) is introduced and evaluated. AR refers to the relevant reasons that one has for one's own opinions and the relevant reasons that others with opposite opinions might have. The measure is shown to be reliable and to have construct validity. Those with elevated AR also were more likely to attend on-line deliberative groups during the presidential election and to contribute to t…
Does Disagreement Contribute to More Deliberative Opinion
Theorists have argued that discussion and disagreement are essential components of sound public opinion, and indeed that both are necessary for effective democracy. But their putative benefits have not been well tested. Consequently, this article examines whether disagreement in political conversation contributes to opinion quality--specifically, whether it expands one's understanding of others' perspectives. Data are drawn from a survey of the A…
Ambivalent Social Networks and Their Consequences for Participation
Does perceived disagreement in political discussion help or hinder citizens’ political participation? Some argue that disagreement prompts reflection, perspective-taking, and tolerance. Challengers argue that disagreement fosters ambivalence and hinders participatory activities and turnout. One seminal study that tackled this dilemma formulated the ‘cross-pressures’ hypothesis (Lazarsfeld, Berelson, & Gaudet, 1944/1968), which posited that the mo…
Framing Public Discussion of Gay Civil Unions
Journal Article Framing Public Discussion of Gay Civil Unions Get access Vincent Price, Vincent Price vincent price and joseph n. cappella are professors in the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania, where lilach nir is a postdoctoral research associate. This research was supported by grants to Vincent Price and Joseph N. Cappella from the Pew Charitable Trusts and the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of P…
Normative and Informational Influences in Online Political Discussions
How do the statements made by people in online political discussions affect other people's willingness to express their own opinions, or argue for them? And how does group interaction ultimately shape individual opinions? We examine carefully whether and how patterns of group discussion shape (a) individuals’ expressive behavior within those discussions and (b) changes in personal opinions. This research proposes that the argumentative “climate” …
Campaign Mixed-Message Flows and Timing of Vote Decision
Journal Article Campaign Mixed-Message Flows and Timing of Vote Decision Get access Lilach Nir, Lilach Nir Lilach Nir (Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania) is an Assistant Professor in the Departments of Political Science and Communication at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her research explores the consequences of information diversity for citizens' political reasoning, perceptions and behavior. She has published articles in Communication Theo…
Not Necessarily the News
In 1992, when vice president of the United States Dan Quayle lashed out against fictional television personality Murphy Brown for glamorizing single motherhood and mocking the importance of fathers
Motivated Reasoning and Public Opinion Perception
Theorists posit that a public—unlike a mass of individuals—forms opinions through awareness of multiple viewpoints and recognition of opposition in a polity. Whether individuals pursue information on others’ political preferences is another matter. While some are motivated to seek as much information as possible, others seek information that supports their own preference. This differential pattern of awareness has implications for individuals’ as…
Disagreement and Opposition in Social Networks
Scholars studying the effects of political disagreement on participation have advanced competing propositions and mixed evidence to bear on whether disagreement in discussion networks either mobilizes or demobilizes voters. This article proposes that the seeming contradiction is due to different conceptual definitions of disagreement. Briefly, researchers have implicitly defined and measured disagreement in the respondents' political discussion n…
Cross-National Differences in Political Discussion
Even though many researchers devoted considerable attention to political discussion and its individual-level antecedents and outcomes, insights are based on single-country studies. Cross-national variations were either never studied or implicitly equated to the U.S. context. This study integrates explanations from communication and comparative politics to test whether political system features (e.g., electoral competitiveness and multiple parties…
Receptivity to Violence in Ethnically Divided Societies
Although past scholarship shows that group inequalities in economic and political power (“Horizontal Inequalities”) correlate with dissent, violence, and civil wars, there is no direct empirical test of the perceptual explanation for this relationship at the individual level. Such explanation is vital to understanding how integration, inclusion in power-sharing agreements, and exclusion from political power filter down to mass publics. Moreover, …
A Tribute to Professor Wolfgang Donsbach
The WAPOR/IJPOR community was shocked and saddened by the unexpected passing of Professor Wolfgang Donsbach. He leaves behind an outstanding legacy of contributions to public opinion research and the social sciences, more generally. He was a scholar, a public intellectual, a mentor, and an institution builder. The International Journal of Public Opinion Research would not be what it is today without Professor Donsbach. He twice served as the jour…
Informal Political Conversation Across Time and Space
Journal Article Informal Political Conversation Across Time and Space: Setting the Research Agenda Get access David Nicolas Hopmann, David Nicolas Hopmann Centre for Journalism, Dept. of Political Science, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark David Nicolas Hopmann is associate professor of Media and Politics, received his PhD from the University of Southern Denmark (2009). His research focuses on mediated and interpersonal political communicat…
How Institutions Affect Gender Gaps in Public Opinion Expression
Journal Article How Institutions Affect Gender Gaps in Public Opinion Expression Get access Lilach Nir, Lilach Nir * Lilach Nir is an associate professor in the Departments of Political Science and Communication and Journalism at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel. Scott D. McClurg is a professor in the Department of Political Science and the School of Journalism at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL, USA. The authors…
How politics-news parallelism invigorates partisanship strength
Although past research has found that news exposure correlates with strong partisanship, insights are based on single-country studies. Other studies have shown that cross-national variations in news systems correlate with turnout, but have not explored partisanship. The current study fills this gap by testing the strength of the relationship between news exposure and partisanship cross-nationally. We argue that the greater the political paralleli…
Not All Countries Are Created Equal
Why do some countries appear more popular than others in mass media? Although researchers have long sought to explain foreign countries’ prevalence in the media, to date they have exclusively focused on news, leaving other types of media content unexplored. In addition, focusing on media effects and media content, the literature on entertainment and politics has largely ignored the study of agenda-building processes. Thus, this study fills these …
Do Women and Men Respond Differently to Negative News
This article offers a new approach to studying sex differences in responses to negative news, using real-time physiological responses as opposed to self-reports. Measurements of skin conductance and heart rate are used to examine whether there are differences in the extent to which women and men are aroused by and attentive to negative news stories. Like experiments that have relied on postexposure self-reports, we detect no sex differences in ar…
Social Representations, News Exposure, and Knowledge Gaps
Objective Studies show that public service broadcasters narrow knowledge gaps between politically interested and disinterested because such contexts encourage incidental learning. This reasoning, however, fails to explain why gendered knowledge differences persist in environments that equalize learning. Using stereotype threat theory, I argue that news content emits symbolic gender cues that encourage or discourage women to become politically inf…
Bridging Gaps in Cross-Cutting Media Exposure
Previous studies show that individual political interest is an antecedent of news media exposure, particularly of exposure to differing views. Nevertheless, little is known about this effect from a comparative perspective: How do media institutions affect the relationship between political interest and exposure to cross-cutting viewpoints? One institutional feature that varies between countries is the ownership of broadcast media. This study inve…
Psychophysiology in the Study of Political Communication
The use of psychophysiological measures has been relatively common in the study of communication; there has been a recent increase in interest among political behavioralists as well. There has nevertheless been a limited body of work that uses psychophysiological measures to better understand the impact of political mass media content. This article presents the case for using psychophysiological measures to study political communication. Focusing…
Negativity Biases and Political Ideology
There is a considerable body of work across the social sciences suggesting negativity biases in human attentiveness and decision-making. Recent research suggests that individual variation in negativity biases is correlated with political ideology: persons who have stronger physiological reactions to negative stimuli, this work argues, hold more conservative attitudes. However, such results have mostly been encountered in the United States. Does t…
Asymmetry in political polarization at multiple levels of bias
While some studies show ideological asymmetry in outgroup bias between rightists and leftists, those studies often target an ideologically biased outgroup. Here, we bypass this issue by targeting the ideological outgroups (rightists for leftists, and leftists for rightists). We rely on a magnetoencephalography‐based approach delineating function‐specific neural mechanisms to test for ideological asymmetries at multiple levels: explicit psychologi…
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