COVID-19 memorable messages as internal narratives: stability and change over time

IF 3.8 3区 管理学 Q1 PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION Policy Sciences Pub Date : 2024-07-08 DOI:10.1007/s11077-024-09538-5
Rob A. DeLeo, Elizabeth A. Shanahan, Kristin Taylor, Nathan Jeschke, Deserai Crow, Thomas A. Birkland, Elizabeth Koebele, Danielle Blanch-Hartigan, Courtney Welton-Mitchell, Sandhya Sangappa, Elizabeth Albright, Honey Minkowitz
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A robust body of research using the Narrative Policy Framework (NPF) has explored the effect of external messages on individual affective responses and behavior, typically at a single point in time. Missing from this micro-level analysis is a careful assessment of the ways in which individuals process information, whether their internal cognitions are communicated in narrative structure, and what the durability of any narrative structure is over time. We address this gap by examining (1) the extent to which individuals recall “memorable messages” in narrative form (e.g., the use of characters and morals) and with what content (e.g., who is cast in these character roles) and (2) whether individuals’ narrative form and content change across time. Memorable messages are pieces of information that are remembered for an extended period of time. We draw on data derived from a multi-wave panel survey of residents in six U.S. states (Colorado, Iowa, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, and Washington) during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. Respondents were asked to recall a memorable message, anything they heard or read that has shaped how they think about the risk of COVID-19. We find that participants articulate recalled memorable messages in narrative form about two-thirds of the time, consistent with how the NPF expects homo narrans to make sense of complex information. However, narratives containing morals are articulated less frequently than those using characters alone. Additionally, individuals’ narrative content changes over time to include new information such as new policy solutions (e.g., mask wearing). Notably, recalled messages lose their narrative form over time.

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COVID-19 作为内部叙述的难忘信息:稳定性和随时间的变化
利用叙事政策框架(NPF)进行的大量研究探讨了外部信息对个人情感反应和行为的影响,这些研究通常是在一个时间点上进行的。在这种微观层面的分析中,缺少的是对个体处理信息的方式、他们的内部认知是否通过叙事结构传达以及任何叙事结构随着时间推移的持久性进行仔细评估。为了弥补这一不足,我们研究了(1)个体在多大程度上以叙事形式(如使用人物和道德)回忆起 "难忘信息",以及 "难忘信息 "的内容(如谁扮演了这些人物角色);(2)个体的叙事形式和内容是否会随着时间的推移而改变。记忆性信息是指能够被长时间记忆的信息片段。我们借鉴了 COVID-19 大流行第一年期间对美国六个州(科罗拉多州、爱荷华州、路易斯安那州、马萨诸塞州、密歇根州和华盛顿州)居民进行的多波面板调查数据。受访者被要求回忆一个难忘的信息,即他们听到或读到的任何影响他们对 COVID-19 风险的看法的信息。我们发现,大约有三分之二的受访者会以叙述的形式来表述所回忆起的难忘信息,这与 NPF 期望智人(homo narrans)理解复杂信息的方式是一致的。然而,与只使用人物的叙述方式相比,包含道德的叙述方式表达的频率较低。此外,个体的叙述内容会随着时间的推移而改变,以包含新的信息,如新的政策解决方案(如戴面具)。值得注意的是,随着时间的推移,回忆信息会失去其叙述形式。
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期刊介绍: The policy sciences are distinctive within the policy movement in that they embrace the scholarly traditions innovated and elaborated by Harold D. Lasswell and Myres S. McDougal. Within these pages we provide space for approaches that are problem-oriented, contextual, and multi-method in orientation. There are many other journals in which authors can take top-down, deductive, and large-sample approach or adopt a primarily theoretical focus. Policy Sciences encourages systematic and empirical investigations in which problems are clearly identified from a practical and theoretical perspective, are well situated in the extant literature, and are investigated utilizing methodologies compatible with contextual, as opposed to reductionist, understandings. We tend not to publish pieces that are solely theoretical, but favor works in which the applied policy lessons are clearly articulated. Policy Sciences favors, but does not publish exclusively, works that either explicitly or implicitly utilize the policy sciences framework. The policy sciences can be applied to articles with greater or lesser intensity to accommodate the focus of an author’s work. At the minimum, this means taking a problem oriented, multi-method or contextual approach. At the fullest expression, it may mean leveraging central theory or explicitly applying aspects of the framework, which is comprised of three principal dimensions: (1) social process, which is mapped in terms of participants, perspectives, situations, base values, strategies, outcomes and effects, with values (power, wealth, enlightenment, skill, rectitude, respect, well-being, and affection) being the key elements in understanding participants’ behaviors and interactions; (2) decision process, which is mapped in terms of seven functions—intelligence, promotion, prescription, invocation, application, termination, and appraisal; and (3) problem orientation, which comprises the intellectual tasks of clarifying goals, describing trends, analyzing conditions, projecting developments, and inventing, evaluating, and selecting alternatives. There is a more extensive core literature that also applies and can be visited at the policy sciences website: http://www.policysciences.org/classicworks.cfm. In addition to articles that explicitly utilize the policy sciences framework, Policy Sciences has a long tradition of publishing papers that draw on various aspects of that framework and its central theory as well as high quality conceptual pieces that address key challenges, opportunities, or approaches in ways congruent with the perspective that this journal strives to maintain and extend.Officially cited as: Policy Sci
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