Partisan Evaluation of Partisan Information

摘要: One recent and conspicuous change in the U.S. media landscape has been shift toward more markedly partisan news content. At same time, data suggest that audience become polarized across a wide array of controversial politicized issues. Recruiting from group highly opponents childhood vaccinations, this study employed 3 (content bias) × 2 (partisan vs. neutral participants) (information source) experimental design to examine perceptions information bias. The supported an expected hostile perception case “fair balanced” information, but different patterns other bias conditions content variables can sometimes disarm defensive processing.