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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"selective exposure"”.
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Mitigating selective exposure in social media forums
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2022-04-06 without embargo terms
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Algorithms vs. Human Nature: A Tale of Selective Exposure
… online content and potentially exacerbating selective exposure tendencies. However, longstanding classic psychological research has demonstrated the ubiquitous phenomenon of cognitive dissonance and selective exposure far before the internet became the primary tool for news consumption. …
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Broken News: Market Segmentation and Selective Exposure in Online News
… effects continued market segmentation and selective exposure online could have on discourse in the public sphere. The study found that the legacy media practice of market segmentation was evident when online news reporting on targeted and untargeted news website homepages was compared. The …
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Enhancing Decision Quality Through Information Exposure and the Moderating Effects of Explicit Factors
Background Limited past research has stated that selective exposure is negatively correlated with decision quality and has demonstrated that when participants where steered into making a poor preliminary decision they made a worse final decision. However, the effect of free choice concerning the …
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Designing technologies for exposure to diverse opinions
"Exposure to diverse opinions can help individuals develop accurate beliefs, make better decisions, and become more understanding and tolerant persons. It is also necessary for the governance of a stable and democratic society. However, the exposure is often limited by people's natural tendency …
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Reconceptualizing Attraction to Media Violence: A Meta -Analysis and an Experiment
… is redefined as two distinct constructs: selective exposure and enjoyment. Two studies were conducted to examine these two processes. The first was a meta-analysis on the existing selective exposure and enjoyment research. This meta-analysis revealed that studies of selective exposure …
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Visuals, inferences, and consumers' biased information seeking
… how varying product visuals affect consumers’ selective exposure, and whether inferences and attitudes toward a newly encountered brand can mediate such visual biasing effects. I examine an underexplored dimension of confirmation bias in which newly developed inferential beliefs and brand …
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Unbiasing Information Search and Processing through Personal and Social Identity Mechanisms
… threatened identity. This may also reduce selective exposure to congenial information, which has not been found with affirmation. This study also advances research on the phenomenon of selective exposure by considering individuals’ interpersonal networks in information search. Because …
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Modeling Recursion with Iteration: Enabling LLVM Loop Optimizations for Recursive Data Structure Traversal
… "misrepresenting" code to the compiler, selective exposure of recursive patterns to loop-based optimization infrastructure is practical and effective. This work establishes a proof-of-concept for compiler transformations that bridge recursion and iteration, paving the way for future …
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A Psychological and Empirical Investigation of the Online Echo Chamber Phenomenon
… was formulated, that highlights two key factors: Selective Exposure to attitudinally congruent messages and communication in homogeneous networks. Then, three studies were conducted to test links between these factors and two individual-level outcomes that are associated to subjects’ actual …
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Success Oriented Strategies Employed by Middle-Class African American Families: A Focus on Positive Racial Identity Development and Socialization
… as follows: the importance of education, ""selective exposure"", family and family activities, responsibility and respect for self and others, religion and spirituality, the protection of children, child discipline, and positive racial identity development and socialization. Contested racial …
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Effects of Television Clips with Hedonic and Eudaimonic Tone on Viewers\' Affective States and Subsequent Program Selection
Motivations for entertainment consumption are complex, involving moods, wants, anticipations, and several other factors. Typically, attempts at a theoretical understanding of motivations for media selection have centered on enjoyment, or hedonic, pleasure-seeking motivations. Recently eudaimonic, …
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The sequential exposure bias: A preference for approaching pro-attitudinal before counter-attitudinal information that can bias evaluative judgments
… The present research identified the sequential exposure bias, defined as a tendency to approach attitude-supportive (congenial) information before attitude-unsupportive (uncongenial) information when searching for information. Participants were more likely to approach congenial before …
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Making Sense of the News Under an Electoral Authoritarian Regime : Russian TV Viewers and the Russia-Ukraine Conflict
… pre-existing preferences demonstrating signs of selective exposure. Participants who are less politically engaged participants rely on TV news in combination with news aggregators to simplify information search. Since Russian news aggregators include information which is not different from TV …
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Microfluidic Devices for Neural and Behavioral Screening of C.Elegans using Electric Field
… inside a more confined area and study whether selective exposure of the worms head or tail to EF results in a directional electrotaxis. Interestingly, the results indicated the involvement of the vulva neurons in electrotaxis, which implied that the head neurons are not solely responsible for …
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Cognitive dissonance shaping consumer behaviour within Generation Z: a case of the Indian healthcare industry
… action-based cognitive dissonance enforcing in selective exposure due to affect-regulation of the ACC mechanism prevailing within Zers. Thus, the thesis has delineated and developed a novel data-driven consumer decision-making process for the new-age digital native consumer, to name a few. …
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Essays in political economy of media and communication
… study the causal link between the public's self-selective exposure to like-minded partisan media and polarization. I first present a parsimonious model to formalize a traditionally neglected channel through which media selection leads to reduced polarization. In a world where the media heavily …
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A Study of the Impact of a Natural Disaster on Economic Behavior and Human Capital Across the Life Course
… and long-run impacts on child health of in utero exposure to stress induced by the tsunami. We investigate whether in utero exposure to stress, as measured by tsunami-induced maternal posttraumatic stress, affected the growth of children born in the aftermath of the tsunami in the critical first …