Selective exposure shapes the Facebook news diet. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2020 The social brain hypothesis approximates the total number of social relationships we are able to maintain at 150. Similar cognitive constraints emerge in several aspects of our daily life, from our mobility to the way we communicate, and might even ...
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When freedom of choice leads to bias: How threat fosters selective exposure to health information [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 Selective exposure to online health information can be ascribed to two related defense motives: the motivation to confirm one’s subjective perceptions and the motivation to protect relevant parts of the self-image, such as physical integrity. Our aim was
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Selective exposure in political communication [PDF]
Megatrend Revija, 2022 People exhibit preferences, or seek out information that is consistent with their political beliefs and opinions, when they engage in selective exposure in politics. The theory of motivated reasoning states that people's pursuit of knowledge is driven by
Baltezarević Radoslav +1 more
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The relationship between information hoarding and selective exposure: the role of information overload, identity bubble reinforcement, and intolerance of uncertainty [PDF]
BMC PsychologyBackground While related studies have examined the influencing factors of information hoarding, relatively little research focused on its potential consequences (e.g., selective exposure).
Xuqing Bai +4 more
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A multilevel network approach to revealing patterns of online political selective exposure. [PDF]
PLoS ONESelective exposure, individuals' inclination to seek out information that supports their beliefs while avoiding information that contradicts them, plays an important role in the emergence of polarization and echo chambers.
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The functional aspects of selective exposure for collective decision-making under social influence [PDF]
Scientific ReportsOpinion diversity is crucial for collective decision-making, but maintaining it becomes challenging in the face of social influence. We propose selective exposure as an endogenous mechanism that preserves opinion diversity by forming exclusive subgroups ...
Poong Oh, Jia Wang Peh, Andrew Schauf
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Conspiracy theories and COVID-19: Coping mechanism or cognitive dissonance? A longitudinal study [PDF]
Journal of Health and Social Sciences, 2023 Introduction: Cognitive dissonance and selective exposure could explain how conspiracism could be adopted as a coping strategy in order to overcome salient threats.
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Motivated skepticism as a formative factor for credibility measures of television news in India: A Structural equation Modeling approach [PDF]
World of Media, 2023 Trustworthiness, accuracy and believability are the most common indicators of news credibility measures. The impact of selective exposure, i.e. audience choosing content similar to their beliefs, on News Credibility is generally not considered in this ...
Uma Shankar Pandey
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How Many People Live in Politically Partisan Online News Echo Chambers in Different Countries?
Journal of Quantitative Description: Digital Media, 2021 Concern over online news echo chambers has been a consistent theme in recent debates on how people get news and information. Yet, we lack a basic descriptive understanding of how many people occupy bounded online news spaces in different countries ...
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Cyberpsychology: Journal of Psychosocial Research on Cyberpspace, 2023 Studies suggest that users of online social networking sites can tend to preferably connect with like-minded others, leading to “Echo Chambers” in which attitudinally congruent information circulates.
Robert Luzsa, Susanne Mayr
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