Mass media and political thought : an information-processing approach / edited by Sidney Kraus, Richard M. Perloff
Imprint
Beverly Hills : Sage, 1985
Edition
1st ed
Descript
350 p. : ill.; 23 cm
CONTENT
Cognitive foundations: Voter thought processes and voting theory -- Political sophistication -- Predicting participation and choice -- Political media processes and effects: Emotional and cognitive responses to televised images of political leaders -- Psychological accounts of agenda-setting -- Cognitions leading to personal and political behaviors -- Finding the unexpected: cognitive bonding in a political campaign -- Personal relevance and campaign information seeking -- Motivation and political information processing -- Macro implications: Patterns of political cognition -- Learning about politics from the media: a comparative study of Sweden and the United States -- Integrative complexity of policy reasoning -- Real-world effects: The studies and the world outside