Nico Spreen
Biographic Data
| ID | 6632712 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nico Spreen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nico |
| FAMILY NAME | Spreen |
| SIGNATURE | SPREEN N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hanover University of Music Drama and Media |
| ORCID | 0009-0002-7982-2084 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Attitudes or Emotions as News Compasses? Comparing Attitudinal and Emotional Guidance in Selecting News About Migration
This study compares the guiding influence of political attitudes and emotions on citizens’ news selection within a fragmented, polarized, and emotionalized political information environment. While selective exposure has long been a central focus in research on political information behavior, the guiding role of emotions has received far less attention. This study brings both perspectives together by directly comparing how pre-existing attitudes a…
Turning off Populism? Applying the Theory of Motivated Information Management on Political Information Avoidance
Informed citizens play a critical role in deliberative democracy. However, contemporary challenges in the political information environment, including digitalization, fragmentation, and misinformation, can contribute to political information avoidance. This study investigates the predictors of the decision-making process leading to disengagement from information about populism. The Theory of Motivated Information Management (TMIM) was applied to …
Misconceptions Still Drive Citizens’ Scepticism Towards Biotechnologically Produced Food
Given the invisible complexities of new food technologies, citizens oftentimes rely on the media and heuristics to form their judgments. Thus, citizens are at risk of believing in misconceptions that undermine technology acceptance and consequently hinder innovative solutions to global problems. The present study examined whether agreeing with widely spread misconceptions about biotechnologically produced food (BTF) predicts more negative attitud…
Explaining the Rich Entertainment Appeal of Nature Documentaries and its Conflicting Motivational Consequences
Nature documentaries are among the most popular media formats but are understudied in communication research. However, due to the format’s multifaceted potential to simultaneously inform, entertain, and persuade, nature documentaries seem particularly worthy of investigation. The present contribution has two aims: (1) to explain how nature documentaries facilitate entertainment responses in their viewers and (2) to investigate how entertainment e…
Bettering Biotech Foods’ Foul Flavor
This study aims to develop and test “myth-busting,” a promising strategy for science communicators to debunk common misconceptions among citizens. Widely spread counterfactual beliefs about biotechnologically produced food (BTF) as (a) unhealthy and unsafe, (b) unsustainable, and (c) unnatural served as context of application. A preregistered online experiment ( N = 2,925) showed that myth-busting messages effectively correct misconceptions. Trus…
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Misconceptions Still Drive Citizens’ Scepticism Towards Biotechnologically Produced Food
Given the invisible complexities of new food technologies, citizens oftentimes rely on the media and heuristics to form their judgments. Thus, citizens are at risk of believing in misconceptions that undermine technology acceptance and consequently hinder innovative solutions to global problems. The present study examined whether agreeing with widely spread misconceptions about biotechnologically produced food (BTF) predicts more negative attitud…
Explaining the Rich Entertainment Appeal of Nature Documentaries and its Conflicting Motivational Consequences
Nature documentaries are among the most popular media formats but are understudied in communication research. However, due to the format’s multifaceted potential to simultaneously inform, entertain, and persuade, nature documentaries seem particularly worthy of investigation. The present contribution has two aims: (1) to explain how nature documentaries facilitate entertainment responses in their viewers and (2) to investigate how entertainment e…
Bettering Biotech Foods’ Foul Flavor
This study aims to develop and test “myth-busting,” a promising strategy for science communicators to debunk common misconceptions among citizens. Widely spread counterfactual beliefs about biotechnologically produced food (BTF) as (a) unhealthy and unsafe, (b) unsustainable, and (c) unnatural served as context of application. A preregistered online experiment ( N = 2,925) showed that myth-busting messages effectively correct misconceptions. Trus…
Attitudes or Emotions as News Compasses? Comparing Attitudinal and Emotional Guidance in Selecting News About Migration
This study compares the guiding influence of political attitudes and emotions on citizens’ news selection within a fragmented, polarized, and emotionalized political information environment. While selective exposure has long been a central focus in research on political information behavior, the guiding role of emotions has received far less attention. This study brings both perspectives together by directly comparing how pre-existing attitudes a…
Turning off Populism? Applying the Theory of Motivated Information Management on Political Information Avoidance
Informed citizens play a critical role in deliberative democracy. However, contemporary challenges in the political information environment, including digitalization, fragmentation, and misinformation, can contribute to political information avoidance. This study investigates the predictors of the decision-making process leading to disengagement from information about populism. The Theory of Motivated Information Management (TMIM) was applied to …
Climate Change Communication and Perception (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Business (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Media Studies and Communication (2 works) · Misinformation and Its Impacts (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Psychology (2 works)