Confirmation Bias, Ingroup Bias, and Negativity Bias in Selective Exposure to Political Information

Datos Bibliográficos

ID23353460
AutoresSilvia Knobloch-Westerwick (The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA), Silvia Knobloch‐westerwick (0000-0003-1703-5771, The Ohio State University, autor de correspondencia), Cornelia Mothes (0000-0002-7268-1664, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA), Nick Polavin (The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA)
Año2020
Volumen47
Número1
Páginas104-124
Fecha de publicación2020-02-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaCommunication Research (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0093-6502 • E-ISSN: 1552-3810
EditorialSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0093650217719596
OpenAlexW2737872961
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas155
Referencias citadas38

Selective reading of political online information was examined based on cognitive dissonance, social identity, and news values frameworks. Online reports were displayed to 156 Americans while selective exposure was tracked. The news articles that participants chose from were either conservative or liberal and also either positive or negative regarding American political policies. In addition, information processing styles (cognitive reflection and need-for-cognition) were measured. Results revealed confirmation and negativity biases, per cognitive dissonance and news values, but did not corroborate the hypothesis derived from social identity theory. Greater cognitive reflection, greater need-for-cognition, and worse affective state fostered the confirmation bias; stronger social comparison tendency reduced the negativity bias.

Cognition · Cognitive bias · Cognitive dissonance · Cognitive psychology · Confirmation bias · Developmental psychology · Identity (music) · Metacognition · Negativity bias · Negativity effect · Political science · Politics · Social cognition · Misinformation and Its Impacts · Psychology · Social and Intergroup Psychology · Social Media and Politics · Social Psychology