During the last decennia media environments and political communication systems have
changed fundamentally. These changes have major ramifications for the political information …

The third edition of The Dynamics of Political Communication continues its comprehensive
coverage of communication and politics, focusing on problematic issues that bear on the …

What are the effects of judicial action and policy implementation on attitude change? The
previous literature indicates that attitudes may change, but there is some debate about its …

Although selective avoidance, commonly practiced as unfriending and muting on social
media, has been assumed to be at odds with the democratic ideal of deliberation, academic …

Using cross-sectional data from the 2008 National Annenberg Election Survey, this study
tests 2 models that explicate the relationship between politically likeminded media use and …

Numerous studies have shown that individuals' belief sensitivity—their ability to discriminate
between true and false political statements—varies according to psychological and …

The substantial increase in nested data such as egocentric network data pose unique
challenges to researchers, including how to adequately model the mechanisms and …

In humanistic psychology, autonomy, internalization, and the self constitute fundamental
concepts to explain adaptive behavior and well-being. However, the momentary mental …

In this research, we examine how product attitudes that consist of both positive and negative
reactions (ie, ambivalent) can be made predictive of purchase behavior with the use of …

Voters express different attitudes toward competing political parties and the issues they
support. In this study, a polytomous latent class analysis of their opinions regarding party …