The Affective Underpinnings of Hostile Media Perceptions Exploring the Distinct Effects of Affective and Cognitive Involvement

The hostile media effect (HME) refers to a process by which highly involved audiences tend to perceive media coverage as biased against their own views. In this process, issue involvement is usually treated as a cognitive construct, that is, as the extent to which the attitudinal issue under conside...

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Published in:	Communication research Vol. 40; no. 3; pp. 360 - 387
Main Author:	Matthes, Jörg
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Los Angeles, CA SAGE Publications 01-06-2013 SAGE PUBLICATIONS, INC
Subjects:	Audiences Cognition & reasoning Communication research Emotions Media coverage hostile media effect affective arousal involvement
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