Cultivating the Opinionated
The Need to Evaluate Moderates the Relationship Between Crime Drama Viewing and Scary World Evaluations
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2264243 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lennert Coenen (0000-0002-7542-337X, Leuven School for Mass Communication Research; KU Leuven; B-3000 Leuven Belgium), Jan Van Den Bulck (0000-0003-0885-0854, Leuven School for Mass Communication Research; KU Leuven; B-3000 Leuven Belgium) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 42 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 421-440 |
| Publication date | 2016-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Human Communication Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0360-3989 • E-ISSN: 1468-2958 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1111/hcre.12080 |
| OpenAlex | W2277051136 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 61 |
The literature on cultivation processes assumes that second-order judgments (e.g., attitudes) are repeatedly updated during viewing (i.e., on-line) and can be reported when asked. In this article, we propose this reasoning only holds for people high in their need to evaluate (NTE). Low-NTE individuals do not update their opinions on-line and have to construct their attitudes memory-based, limiting the likelihood of finding second-order relationships. Results from a cross-sectional survey among 226 adolescents indicate that crime drama viewing and scary world beliefs are only correlated among high-NTE individuals. NTE does not moderate cultivation through nonfiction. The theoretical implications of memory-based attitudes for second-order cultivation are discussed, and suggestions are made for future research on attitudinal media effects
Drama · Literature · Media Influence and Health · Media Studies and Communication · Psychology · Social and Intergroup Psychology · Social Psychology
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Understanding Sexual Objectification
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The Psychology of Survey Response
Resistance and Persuasion
The Construction of Social Judgments
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Associative and propositional processes in evaluation
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Cautions Regarding the Interpretation of Regression Coefficients and Hypothesis Tests in Linear Models with Interactions
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On-line and memory-based modification of attitudes
The Automatic Evaluation Effect
Memory-based versus on-line processing
On-line and memory-based modification of attitudes
The Scary World in Your Living Room and Neighborhood
Theory and Research in Mass Communication
On-line processing in candidate evaluation
Framing and Deliberation
Learning More from Political Communication Experiments
The need to evaluate
Personality and persuasion
Self-reports
Availability
Design of Web Questionnaires
An Online Process Model of Second-Order Cultivation Effects
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| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0,38 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2022 (5) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |