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2016
Good News!
Good News!
how reading valenced news articles influences positive distinctiveness and learning from news
how reading valenced news articles influences positive distinctiveness and learning from news
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International news articles often compare different countries, favoring one country over another. On the basis of this notion, we hypothesized that when people read international news articles favoring their own country over another, they would afterwards evaluate their country (in-group) better than the other country (out-group) – a tendency referred to as positive distinctiveness in social identity theory (SIT). We further hypothesized that when people read international news articles favoring their own country, they would afterwards have better knowledge of the news articles they read. An experiment with two groups (positive vs. negative articles in terms of participants’ own national identity) was conducted in Germany and the US (total N = 364). We found that when participants read positively valenced news articles, they afterwards showed more positive distinctiveness (e.g., U.S. students believed that the US had a better national educational system than Germany). We also found that when German participants read positively valenced news articles, they demonstrated better knowledge of the articles. This effect was not found in the U.S. sample. Overall, we found support for the notion that social identity mechanisms are relevant when it comes to analyzing the effects of news media.
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Journal of media psychology, 30 (2016), 2, 66-78.
https://doi.org/10.1027/1864-1105/a000182.
ISSN: 2151-2388
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Trepte, S., Schmitt, J. B., & Dienlin, T. (2016). Good News! Journal of media psychology, 30(2). https://doi.org/10.1027/1864-1105/a000182
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300 Social sciences, sociology, and anthropology
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Social identity theory National identity News reading Positive distinctiveness News knowledge
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@article{2016,
doi = {10.1027/1864-1105/a000182},
url = {https://hohpublica.uni-hohenheim.de/handle/123456789/16175},
author = {Trepte, Sabine, and Schmitt, Josephine B., and Dienlin, Tobias},
title = {Good News! : how reading valenced news articles influences positive distinctiveness and learning from news},
journal = {Journal of media psychology},
year = {2016},
volume = {30},
number = {2},
pages = {66--78},
}