Gabi Schaap
Biographic Data
| ID | 4395091 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gabi Schaap |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gabi |
| FAMILY NAME | Schaap |
| SIGNATURE | SCHAAP G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Radboud University Nijmegen |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4661-701X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 80 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Beyond algorithm aversion: How users trade off decisional agency and optimal outcomes when choosing between algorithms and human decision-makers
By definition, algorithmic decision-making (ADM) transfers human agency (i.e., decisional control) to the machine in exchange for optimal outcomes. Whereas algorithmic aversion literature suggests a default hesitance to use machine decisions, these conclusions have recently been disputed. This study examines the conditions under which individuals choose to delegate decisions to algorithms versus human agents, focusing on how trade-offs between ag…
The ABC of algorithmic aversion: Not agent, but benefits and control determine the acceptance of automated decision-making
While algorithmic decision-making (ADM) is projected to increase exponentially in the coming decades, the academic debate on whether people are ready to accept, trust, and use ADM as opposed to human decision-making is ongoing. The current research aims at reconciling conflicting findings on ‘algorithmic aversion’ in the literature. It does so by investigating algorithmic aversion while controlling for two important characteristics that are often…
An attention economic perspective on the future of the information age
In this paper, we apply an attention economic perspective to explain current and predict future trends in our society. We first describe the rise of the attention economy, and we highlight one important mechanism of this economy: a spiral of attention scarcity. Second, we show that an attention economic perspective provides glimpses of a potential future. In particular, we predict an information environment that increasingly targets citizens with…
Correcting Misperceptions: The Causal Role of Motivation in Corrective Science Communication About Vaccine and Food Safety
Some people stick to beliefs that do not align with scientific consensus when faced with science communication that contradicts those misperceptions. Two preregistered experiments (total N = 1,256) investigated the causal role of motivated reasoning in the effectiveness of correcting misperceptions. In both experiments, accuracy-driven reasoning led to a larger corrective effect of a science communication message than reasoning driven by directio…
The effects of scandalization in political news messages on political trust and message evaluation
Recent decades have seen an increase in the frequency of ‘scandalization’ in political news, a practice in which journalists try to persuade the public that there is a scandal, sometimes by exaggerating the importance of minor mistakes or improprieties. At the moment, little is known about the effects of this practice on news consumers. In this study, we investigated the effects of scandalization on news consumers’ evaluations of the politician i…
On Different Sides: Investigating the Persuasive Effects of Anger Expression in Political News Messages
Anger expression is increasingly prevalent in political news messages. However, the persuasive effects of expressing anger in a political context have received scant attention from researchers. We conducted two experiments to investigate the hypothesis that anger expression is detrimental to persuasion because it runs counter to well‐established social norms for the polite expression of opinions. We created political news messages including a per…
Getting Youngsters Hooked on News: The effects of narrative news on information processing and appreciation in different age groups
Narrative news is often propagated as a means to inform and attract younger generations of news consumers. To test this, the current study assessed the effects of narrative structure versus inverted pyramid structure on information processing and news appreciation for Millennials, compared to Generation X, and Baby Boomers/Silent Generation. Participants were randomly exposed to either four online news articles written in a narrative structure or…
Citizen sources in the news: Above and beyond the vox pop
Both within journalism and academia it is argued that citizen voices should have a greater prominence in news to counterbalance the virtual monopoly of elite sources. This study extends previous studies – showing increased presence of citizens in news – by investigating relevant but unanswered questions, namely, (1) whether there has been a change in their prominence relative to elite and civil society sources and (2) in which capacity citizens h…
Re-Establishing the Relationship with the Public: Regional journalism and citizens' involvement in the news
Public journalism is viewed by many as a solution to the decreasing media presence and public involvement in regional news media. Core values in this approach are public deliberation, participation, and connectedness. This study investigates the added value of a citizen-centred approach to journalism routines and news content in a collaborative regional media project in the Netherlands. Data were gathered using observations, interviews, and conte…
Conceptualizing television news interpretation by its viewers: The concept of interpretive complexity
In recent years many scholars seem to agree that viewers’ interpretations play a prominent role in the influence of television news. However, a clear concept of ‘interpretation’ is still missing. This article proposes to conceptualize interpretation as the ‘representation’ of a news item as constructed and reported by a news viewer. More specifically, we look at this representation in terms of its complexity. Two aspects are important: first, the…
What men and women think while watching the news: An exploration
n Contains fulltext :\n 64372.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)\n
Citizen sources in the news: Above and beyond the vox pop
Both within journalism and academia it is argued that citizen voices should have a greater prominence in news to counterbalance the virtual monopoly of elite sources. This study extends previous studies – showing increased presence of citizens in news – by investigating relevant but unanswered questions, namely, (1) whether there has been a change in their prominence relative to elite and civil society sources and (2) in which capacity citizens h…
Re-Establishing the Relationship with the Public: Regional journalism and citizens' involvement in the news
Public journalism is viewed by many as a solution to the decreasing media presence and public involvement in regional news media. Core values in this approach are public deliberation, participation, and connectedness. This study investigates the added value of a citizen-centred approach to journalism routines and news content in a collaborative regional media project in the Netherlands. Data were gathered using observations, interviews, and conte…
Getting Youngsters Hooked on News: The effects of narrative news on information processing and appreciation in different age groups
Narrative news is often propagated as a means to inform and attract younger generations of news consumers. To test this, the current study assessed the effects of narrative structure versus inverted pyramid structure on information processing and news appreciation for Millennials, compared to Generation X, and Baby Boomers/Silent Generation. Participants were randomly exposed to either four online news articles written in a narrative structure or…
Correcting Misperceptions: The Causal Role of Motivation in Corrective Science Communication About Vaccine and Food Safety
Some people stick to beliefs that do not align with scientific consensus when faced with science communication that contradicts those misperceptions. Two preregistered experiments (total N = 1,256) investigated the causal role of motivated reasoning in the effectiveness of correcting misperceptions. In both experiments, accuracy-driven reasoning led to a larger corrective effect of a science communication message than reasoning driven by directio…
On Different Sides: Investigating the Persuasive Effects of Anger Expression in Political News Messages
Anger expression is increasingly prevalent in political news messages. However, the persuasive effects of expressing anger in a political context have received scant attention from researchers. We conducted two experiments to investigate the hypothesis that anger expression is detrimental to persuasion because it runs counter to well‐established social norms for the polite expression of opinions. We created political news messages including a per…
An attention economic perspective on the future of the information age
In this paper, we apply an attention economic perspective to explain current and predict future trends in our society. We first describe the rise of the attention economy, and we highlight one important mechanism of this economy: a spiral of attention scarcity. Second, we show that an attention economic perspective provides glimpses of a potential future. In particular, we predict an information environment that increasingly targets citizens with…
The effects of scandalization in political news messages on political trust and message evaluation
Recent decades have seen an increase in the frequency of ‘scandalization’ in political news, a practice in which journalists try to persuade the public that there is a scandal, sometimes by exaggerating the importance of minor mistakes or improprieties. At the moment, little is known about the effects of this practice on news consumers. In this study, we investigated the effects of scandalization on news consumers’ evaluations of the politician i…
What men and women think while watching the news: An exploration
n Contains fulltext :\n 64372.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)\n
Conceptualizing television news interpretation by its viewers: The concept of interpretive complexity
In recent years many scholars seem to agree that viewers’ interpretations play a prominent role in the influence of television news. However, a clear concept of ‘interpretation’ is still missing. This article proposes to conceptualize interpretation as the ‘representation’ of a news item as constructed and reported by a news viewer. More specifically, we look at this representation in terms of its complexity. Two aspects are important: first, the…
Re-Establishing the Relationship with the Public: Regional journalism and citizens' involvement in the news
Public journalism is viewed by many as a solution to the decreasing media presence and public involvement in regional news media. Core values in this approach are public deliberation, participation, and connectedness. This study investigates the added value of a citizen-centred approach to journalism routines and news content in a collaborative regional media project in the Netherlands. Data were gathered using observations, interviews, and conte…
Citizen sources in the news: Above and beyond the vox pop
Both within journalism and academia it is argued that citizen voices should have a greater prominence in news to counterbalance the virtual monopoly of elite sources. This study extends previous studies – showing increased presence of citizens in news – by investigating relevant but unanswered questions, namely, (1) whether there has been a change in their prominence relative to elite and civil society sources and (2) in which capacity citizens h…
Getting Youngsters Hooked on News: The effects of narrative news on information processing and appreciation in different age groups
Narrative news is often propagated as a means to inform and attract younger generations of news consumers. To test this, the current study assessed the effects of narrative structure versus inverted pyramid structure on information processing and news appreciation for Millennials, compared to Generation X, and Baby Boomers/Silent Generation. Participants were randomly exposed to either four online news articles written in a narrative structure or…
The effects of scandalization in political news messages on political trust and message evaluation
Recent decades have seen an increase in the frequency of ‘scandalization’ in political news, a practice in which journalists try to persuade the public that there is a scandal, sometimes by exaggerating the importance of minor mistakes or improprieties. At the moment, little is known about the effects of this practice on news consumers. In this study, we investigated the effects of scandalization on news consumers’ evaluations of the politician i…
On Different Sides: Investigating the Persuasive Effects of Anger Expression in Political News Messages
Anger expression is increasingly prevalent in political news messages. However, the persuasive effects of expressing anger in a political context have received scant attention from researchers. We conducted two experiments to investigate the hypothesis that anger expression is detrimental to persuasion because it runs counter to well‐established social norms for the polite expression of opinions. We created political news messages including a per…
Correcting Misperceptions: The Causal Role of Motivation in Corrective Science Communication About Vaccine and Food Safety
Some people stick to beliefs that do not align with scientific consensus when faced with science communication that contradicts those misperceptions. Two preregistered experiments (total N = 1,256) investigated the causal role of motivated reasoning in the effectiveness of correcting misperceptions. In both experiments, accuracy-driven reasoning led to a larger corrective effect of a science communication message than reasoning driven by directio…
An attention economic perspective on the future of the information age
In this paper, we apply an attention economic perspective to explain current and predict future trends in our society. We first describe the rise of the attention economy, and we highlight one important mechanism of this economy: a spiral of attention scarcity. Second, we show that an attention economic perspective provides glimpses of a potential future. In particular, we predict an information environment that increasingly targets citizens with…
The ABC of algorithmic aversion: Not agent, but benefits and control determine the acceptance of automated decision-making
While algorithmic decision-making (ADM) is projected to increase exponentially in the coming decades, the academic debate on whether people are ready to accept, trust, and use ADM as opposed to human decision-making is ongoing. The current research aims at reconciling conflicting findings on ‘algorithmic aversion’ in the literature. It does so by investigating algorithmic aversion while controlling for two important characteristics that are often…
Beyond algorithm aversion: How users trade off decisional agency and optimal outcomes when choosing between algorithms and human decision-makers
By definition, algorithmic decision-making (ADM) transfers human agency (i.e., decisional control) to the machine in exchange for optimal outcomes. Whereas algorithmic aversion literature suggests a default hesitance to use machine decisions, these conclusions have recently been disputed. This study examines the conditions under which individuals choose to delegate decisions to algorithms versus human agents, focusing on how trade-offs between ag…
Political science (7 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Media studies (6 works) · Media Studies and Communication (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Social Media and Politics (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Economics (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works)