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Cragun, James Hyrum.

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Individual Differences in Selective Exposure to Attitude-congruent Political Information: Intuition, Faith, and Social Environment.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Individual Differences in Selective Exposure to Attitude-congruent Political Information: Intuition, Faith, and Social Environment./
Author:	Cragun, James Hyrum.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2020,
Description:	79 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 82-06, Section: B.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International82-06B.
Subject:	Political science. -
Online resource:	https://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=28091083
ISBN:	9798684655401

Individual Differences in Selective Exposure to Attitude-congruent Political Information: Intuition, Faith, and Social Environment.
Cragun, James Hyrum.

Individual Differences in Selective Exposure to Attitude-congruent Political Information: Intuition, Faith, and Social Environment. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2020 - 79 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 82-06, Section: B.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--State University of New York at Stony Brook, 2020.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

When seeking political information, people are motivated to selectively seek information that will support their prior beliefs or attitudes rather than information that will challenge them. However, there may be differences in the degree to which individuals engage in such selective exposure. I seek to identify dispositional or environmental variables that may influence the development of such individual differences. I use controlled information-search tasks on a controversial political issue to measure the relative frequency with which subjects choose to read arguments that are congruent with their prior attitudes on that issue. In the first chapter, I show that the preference for reading attitude-congruent information is stronger among individuals who rely more on automatic or intuitive thought processes rather than effortful reflection, as measured by the Cognitive Reflection Test. In the second chapter, I investigate the effects of religious faith. Some religions explicitly teach the importance of maintaining one's beliefs, and I theorize that habits of selective exposure to information congruent with one's religious beliefs could, as a side effect, lead to habits of selective exposure in other contexts such as political information seeking. I find that, in an information-search task on a non-religious political issue, the preference for reading attitude-congruent arguments is correlated with scores on a self-report scale of rigid religious conviction and can be increased by priming people to think of religion. The third chapter investigates the effects of having a politically homogeneous or heterogeneous social environment. To enable stronger causal inference, I study residents of student housing, a situation in which many residents live with people they have not chosen on the basis of political similarity. I do not find clear and consistent evidence that the preference for reading attitude-congruent information is stronger or weaker among residents who live with a politically similar roommate, though I do find such an effect among a sub-group: Republican-leaning residents. I also do not find strong evidence that priming people to think of the members of their social networks as more politically similar or dissimilar to their selves affects the tendency to read congruent information.

ISBN: 9798684655401Subjects--Topical Terms:

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Political science.
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Attitude-congruent political information

Individual Differences in Selective Exposure to Attitude-congruent Political Information: Intuition, Faith, and Social Environment.
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