Partisan Identification as a Predictor of Cortisol Response to Election News

Autor:	Hart Blanton, Erin Strauts, Marisol Perez
Rok vydání:	2012
Předmět:	Consumption (economics) Social stress Sociology and Political Science Presidential election Communication education Victory Political communication Media consumption Politics Set (psychology) Psychology Social psychology health care economics and organizations
Zdroj:	Political Communication. 29:447-460
ISSN:	1091-7675 1058-4609
DOI:	10.1080/10584609.2012.736239
Popis:	Partisan effects on media consumption have been widely documented, with considerable attention given to partisan influences on selective exposure. Although researchers have debated the degree to which selective exposure drives media consumption in general and partisan consumption of the news in particular, one of the hypothesized mechanisms linked to this phenomenon seems inherently plausible: Exposure to disliked news coverage can generate psychological discomfort. The physiological effects of this hypothesized discomfort were examined by determining how political partisanship influences release of the stress hormone, cortisol, following exposure to news coverage of a presidential election. The study was conducted in the week following the 2008 election. Participants were students at a large, mostly conservative state university who read news coverage about the election victory of Barack Obama or a set of control news stories. Results indicated that conservative political identification was associated wi...
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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