{"title":"Emphasis Framing Effects of Conflicting Messages","authors":"Keiichi Kobayashi","doi":"10.1027/1864-1105/a000263","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1027/1864-1105/a000263","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract. This study examined the emphasis framing effects of conflicting messages. Japanese undergraduate students ( N = 199) received one message supporting whale-fishery competition with another message opposing it (the conflicting-message condition), arguing against the public demand for whale meat (the competing-message condition), or taking a neutral stance on whaling (the unbalanced-message condition). Although the conflicting and competing messages (vs. the unbalanced messages) had no effect on support for the government’s whaling policy, participants in the conflicting-message condition produced more thoughts about whale-fishery competition, had a more moderate belief about the issue, and perceived the importance of the belief to be lower than participants in the competing- and unbalanced-message conditions. These results suggest that messages organized by conflicting frames have unique effects on the availability, accessibility, and applicability of frame-relevant or -congruent beliefs.","PeriodicalId":366104,"journal":{"name":"J. Media Psychol. Theor. Methods Appl.","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133369540","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"At the Intersection of Motivational Relevance and Website Visual Complexity","authors":"Narine S. Yegiyan, Tessa I. DeAngelo, You Zhan","doi":"10.1027/1864-1105/a000267","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1027/1864-1105/a000267","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract. This study investigated how resource allocation to and encoding of irrelevant peripheral information (advertisements) varied as a function of the emotional tone of a central event (movie ...","PeriodicalId":366104,"journal":{"name":"J. Media Psychol. Theor. Methods Appl.","volume":"55 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116007374","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Effectiveness of a School-Based Intervention to Empower Children to Cope With Advertising","authors":"E. Rozendaal, Bernd Figner","doi":"10.1027/1864-1105/a000262","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1027/1864-1105/a000262","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract. This study tested the effectiveness of a theory-driven, school-based advertising intervention entitled Ad Masters that aimed to stimulate children’s advertising coping behavior in the cur...","PeriodicalId":366104,"journal":{"name":"J. Media Psychol. Theor. Methods Appl.","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131591460","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Between a Rock and a Hard Place: The Role of Moral Intuitions and Social Distance in Determining Moral Judgments of an Agent in a Moral Dilemma","authors":"Matthias Hofer, Ron Tamborini, Fabian Ryffel","doi":"10.1027/1864-1105/a000284","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1027/1864-1105/a000284","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract. Applying logic from both the model of intuitive morality and exemplars and construal level theory, we examined the impact of baseline moral intuition salience and social distance on the moral judgment of a narrative character confronted with a moral dilemma. After completing a measure of baseline intuition salience, participants in an experiment first read an article about a fighter pilot who shot down a plane and then judged the pilot’s actions as morally right or wrong. The article indicated that the plane had been hijacked by a terrorist who wanted to let it crash into a nearby stadium, and that the pilot shot down the plane to save the spectators in the stadium. Participants were randomly assigned to read the article either as if they were the pilot (social distance low) or as objectively as possible (social distance high). Results showed that baseline intuition salience and social distance interacted in determining moral judgment. Finally, moral judgment predicted whether participants would find the pilot guilty or not. In a second study using the same design as in the first study, we ensured that readers focused on different aspects of the dilemma depending on social distance.","PeriodicalId":366104,"journal":{"name":"J. Media Psychol. Theor. Methods Appl.","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129454428","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Abnormality in News Stories","authors":"S. Kim, Catherine S. Oh","doi":"10.1027/1864-1105/a000274","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1027/1864-1105/a000274","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract. What makes people show emotional responses toward victims of social injustice in news stories? What are the behavioral consequences of these emotions? Using an online experiment, this stu...","PeriodicalId":366104,"journal":{"name":"J. Media Psychol. Theor. Methods Appl.","volume":"87 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116087237","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Interdependence in Mediated Intergroup Contact","authors":"Katherine R. Dale, Emily Moyer-Gusé","doi":"10.1027/1864-1105/a000273","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1027/1864-1105/a000273","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract. Mediated intergroup contact and extended contact hypothesis research shows that observing a positive intergroup interaction can result in improved attitudes toward the outgroup. This expe...","PeriodicalId":366104,"journal":{"name":"J. Media Psychol. Theor. Methods Appl.","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131706894","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Police Officer's Dilemma","authors":"T. Greitemeyer","doi":"10.1027/1864-1105/A000260","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1027/1864-1105/A000260","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract. Correll and colleagues (Correll, Park, Judd, & Wittenbrink, 2002) developed a first-person shooter task that simulates the police officer’s dilemma of whether to shoot or not a target tha...","PeriodicalId":366104,"journal":{"name":"J. Media Psychol. Theor. Methods Appl.","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125924011","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Negativity Wins at Last","authors":"A. Kümpel, Julian Unkel","doi":"10.1027/1864-1105/A000261","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1027/1864-1105/A000261","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract. A number of studies show that user comments on news websites can affect news-related judgments and perceptions. However, with news organizations increasingly shifting their comment sectio...","PeriodicalId":366104,"journal":{"name":"J. Media Psychol. Theor. Methods Appl.","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126286787","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Media-Induced Misperception Further Divides Public Opinion","authors":"Jiyoung Han, M. Yzer","doi":"10.1027/1864-1105/A000259","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1027/1864-1105/A000259","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract. Although there is growing evidence that partisans believe they are further apart than they actually are, the causes and consequences of this misperception are not always clear. Informed b...","PeriodicalId":366104,"journal":{"name":"J. Media Psychol. Theor. Methods Appl.","volume":"344 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133531236","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Stories and the Self","authors":"Stefan Krause, Markus Appel","doi":"10.1027/1864-1105/A000255","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1027/1864-1105/A000255","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract. Two experiments examined the influence of stories on recipients’ self-perceptions. Extending prior theory and research, our focus was on assimilation effects (i.e., changes in self-perception in line with a protagonist’s traits) as well as on contrast effects (i.e., changes in self-perception in contrast to a protagonist’s traits). In Experiment 1 ( N = 113), implicit and explicit conscientiousness were assessed after participants read a story about either a diligent or a negligent student. Moderation analyses showed that highly transported participants and participants with lower counterarguing scores assimilate the depicted traits of a story protagonist, as indicated by explicit, self-reported conscientiousness ratings. Participants, who were more critical toward a story (i.e., higher counterarguing) and with a lower degree of transportation, showed contrast effects. In Experiment 2 ( N = 103), we manipulated transportation and counterarguing, but we could not identify an effect on participants’ self-ascribed level of conscientiousness. A mini meta-analysis across both experiments revealed significant positive overall associations between transportation and counterarguing on the one hand and story-consistent self-reported conscientiousness on the other hand.","PeriodicalId":366104,"journal":{"name":"J. Media Psychol. Theor. Methods Appl.","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123642220","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}