Pub Date : 2024-12-11DOI: 10.1177/00936502241300803
Yuan Hsiao, Matthew Hindman
How does media shape and reflect right-wing rhetoric in the U.S.? Theories of media effects have moved towards networked approaches to agenda setting and framing, but it remains uncertain how issue attributes or frames emerge in the U.S. media ecosystem in which users themselves can shape political rhetoric through discussion on social media. We provide the largest test to date of the different predictions of networked agenda setting (NAS) theory and networked framing, through a semantic network analysis of all 19,112 video transcripts and 661,958,464 user comments posted on the YouTube channels of four major U.S. conservative media outlets between January 2019 and March 2021. Both overall, and within key topics like COVID-19 or Black Lives Matter, we find that user comments diverge strongly from video transcripts, with users repeatedly introducing associations, emotionally charged rhetoric, and conspiracy theories not originally present. Our results challenge claims by network agenda setting scholars that “objects and attributes can be transferred simultaneously in bundles” from the media agenda to the public agenda, but are more consistent with scholarship on networked framing. We argue that future work should strive to synthesize both approaches.
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Pub Date : 2024-11-28DOI: 10.1177/00936502241302569
Song Zhou, Huaqi Yang, Ming Ye, Ning Ding, Tao Liu
The advancement of artificial intelligence (AI) has expanded the potential for human-machine communication and collaboration in complex contexts, necessitating AI to exhibit human-like behavior in order to align with its human counterpart. Consequently, understanding human behavioral traits becomes advantageous for developing AI agents that resemble humans. This study investigated how individuals process visual information from others to inform the future design of intelligent vision systems. Through four experiments, participants were tasked with assessing whether a given number corresponds to the number of balls while manipulating the gaze direction of an avatar by averting its eyes or altering its head orientation. The results indicate that participant response times were influenced regardless of the avatar’s gaze direction. Specifically, when the avatar was positioned with its back facing the balls, any disparity in participant performance across different conditions is eliminated. These findings suggest that implicit level-1 visual perspective-taking may not primarily rely on gaze direction but rather on perceiving affordances within the environment. Such insights contribute to a deeper understanding of cognitive mechanisms underlying level-1 visual perspective-taking and can serve as a theoretical foundation for advancing AI vision algorithms in human-machine communication and collaboration.
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Pub Date : 2024-11-28DOI: 10.1177/00936502241301174
Han Lin, Yonghwan Kim
The Dunning-Kruger effect describes how poor performers overestimate their abilities while top performers underestimate their abilities. This study explores whether this effect explains the ineffectiveness of cross-cutting discussions in reducing affective polarization. We propose a moderated mediation model in which the relationship between cross-cutting discussion (wave 1) and affective polarization (wave 2) is mediated by oppositional responses to disagreements, and this indirect relationship, specifically between cross-cutting discussion and opposition responses, is moderated by political overconfidence. Analyzing panel data from a two-wave online survey, the results suggest that the Dunning-Kruger effect is widespread in political knowledge and influences social media users’ behaviors and attitudes. Specifically, for example, those who are more overconfident engage in cross-cutting discussions, have more oppositional responses (e.g., posting criticisms or clicking “dislike”), and thus become more affectively polarized. This suggests that correcting the public’s perceived bias about their level of political knowledge may help reduce affective polarization.
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Pub Date : 2024-10-29DOI: 10.1177/00936502241287834
Mehdi Akbari, Shiva Jamshidi, Zahra Sadat Hosseini, Sonay Sheikhi, Rezvaneh Asadi Asadabad, Mahshid Zamani, Paul J. Wright
Since Internet pornography (IP) is widespread and can become problematic for some users, investigating the personality traits which correlate with its consumption is important. Though many studies have been conducted on the relationship between IP, personality traits, and attachment, no meta-analysis has been conducted to synthesize this literature. We aimed to address this gap through a meta-analysis comprising 51 studies with 45,808 individuals (female = 35.19%, mean age = 37.81). The strongest correlation was found for sexual compulsivity ( r = .372), followed by impulsivity ( r = .273), self-control ( r = −.210), narcissism ( r = .172), and conscientiousness ( r = −.147). Statistically significant positive correlations were found between impulsivity ( r = .245), (sexual) compulsivity ( r = .392), neuroticism ( r = .114), and anxious attachment ( r = .131) with problematic use of IP. The correlations between conscientiousness and both general IP ( r = −.145) and problematic use of IP ( r = −.149) were statistically significant and negative. Moderator analyses revealed that the internal consistency of pornography measurement moderated the relationship between IP and neuroticism.
由于网络色情（IP）非常普遍，而且可能会对某些用户造成问题，因此研究与 IP 消费相关的人格特质非常重要。尽管已有许多关于网络色情、人格特质和依恋之间关系的研究，但还没有对这些文献进行荟萃分析。我们旨在通过一项荟萃分析来填补这一空白，荟萃分析包括 51 项研究，涉及 45 808 人（女性 = 35.19%，平均年龄 = 37.81）。研究发现，相关性最强的是性强迫（r = .372），其次是冲动（r = .273）、自控（r = -.210）、自恋（r = .172）和自觉（r = -.147）。冲动（r = 0.245）、（性）强迫（r = 0.392）、神经质（r = 0.114）和焦虑依恋（r = 0.131）与问题性使用 IP 之间存在统计学意义上的正相关。自觉性与一般 IP ( r = -.145) 和问题性 IP 使用 ( r = -.149) 之间的相关性在统计学上显著且为负。调节分析显示，色情测量的内部一致性调节了 IP 与神经质之间的关系。
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Pub Date : 2024-10-22DOI: 10.1177/00936502241285574
Christopher J. Carpenter, Shannon M. Cruz, Reed M. Reynolds
The superdiffuser model predicts that the diffusion of a new behavior can be accelerated if superdiffusers (people who are connectors, persuaders, and mavens) are recruited to promote the behavior. We propose an expanded model where the importance of these traits varies by network structure and other network member characteristics. We assessed the plausibility of these proposed moderators using a simulation of an agent-based model in which each moderator was varied along with the superdiffuser traits of those initially seeded with the behavior. Analysis of the results of those simulations showed support for many, but not all, of the predictions as well as several surprising results that are suggestive for future empirical research.
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Pub Date : 2024-10-18DOI: 10.1177/00936502241289483
Camille G. Endacott, Lauren Millender, Jordan Duran, Miguel Wilson
Mass layoffs offer a unique and understudied context to understand how affected workers communicate the involuntary, collective nature of their organizational exit. In this study, we explored the communicative strategies that workers affected by mass layoffs in the technology industry used to engage in impression management by analyzing LinkedIn posts ( N = 362). Our findings showed that workers engaged in proactive impression management by drawing on targets of identification (such as positioning themselves within the collective group of affected workers and highlighting their former membership with prestigious companies) to minimize blame for their layoff and signal their employability. Our findings also suggest that, amid environmental shock and in digital environments, individuals enact remarkably similar communicative strategies to one another, suggesting that this type of organizational exit announcement is a distinct emergent genre for impression management. We discuss our findings’ implications for our understanding of organizational exit and work-related online impression management behavior.
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Pub Date : 2024-10-18DOI: 10.1177/00936502241287870
Viorela Dan, Renita Coleman
Widespread concerns about the pervasiveness of misinformation have propelled one antidote to the center of scholarly attention: the journalistic fact check. Yet, fact checks often do not work as intended. While most fact checks are text only, a compelling theoretical argument can be made for using a video format instead. In this pre-registered experiment conducted in Germany ( N = 1,093), we investigated whether using video versus text can improve fact checks’ ability to correct misperceptions about transgender women, cannabis consumption, migration, and climate change. Video fact checks outperformed text fact checks, with those holding false or uncertain pre-existing beliefs benefiting the most. We contribute to motivated reasoning theory the idea that visual information can override directional reasoning better than textual information, and that processing fluency is the mechanism by which this occurs. Our findings paint an optimistic picture for the ability of fact checks to debunk misinformation, especially for those holding misperceptions.
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Pub Date : 2024-10-17DOI: 10.1177/00936502241290863
Jade Salmon, Tamara D. Afifi
This study investigated the dilemmas faced by emerging adults serving as supporting siblings (SS) for their sibling with depression (SWD). A thematic analysis of 49 interviews revealed the family system as central to sibling depression. Family histories of dysfunction contributed to SWDs’ lasting symptoms, prompting SSs’ felt obligation to their sibling. SSs managed mental health communication in the family by protecting their SWD against their parents and withholding their own mental health challenges. Additionally, this study revealed SSs’ double binds: They were caught between their loyalties to their SWD and parents, and between maintaining their family system and their own well-being. The importance of family systems, family history, and challenges related to navigating sibling depression are discussed.
本研究调查了为患有抑郁症的兄弟姐妹（SWD）提供支持的新兴成年人（SS）所面临的困境。对 49 个访谈进行的主题分析表明，家庭系统是兄弟姐妹抑郁症的核心。家庭功能失调的历史导致了 SWDs 持久的症状，促使 SSs 感到对其兄弟姐妹有义务。成年男性通过保护他们的兄弟姐妹免受父母的伤害，并隐瞒自己的心理健康问题，来处理家庭中的心理健康沟通问题。此外，本研究还揭示了 SS 的双重束缚：他们既要忠于社署，又要忠于父母，既要维护家庭系统，又要维护自己的幸福。本研究讨论了家庭系统、家庭历史的重要性，以及与兄弟姐妹抑郁症相关的挑战。
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Pub Date : 2024-10-13DOI: 10.1177/00936502241287018
Lennert Coenen
This paper provides a philosophical discussion of moderators and person-specific differences (referred to as “hedges”) in research on media effects. It is shown that while, historically, the reliance on hedges has been regarded as a sign of theoretical sophistication (the “hedges-as-progress-perspective”), it has left the field behind in a maze of epistemological problems. The paper therefore urges to reinterpret the role of hedges as a sign of theoretical resilience instead of sophistication (the “hedges-as-protection-perspective”). This shift is shown to have substantive implications for how one describes and evaluates media effects research—not just its history, but also its current state and its ambitions going into the future.
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Pub Date : 2024-10-08DOI: 10.1177/00936502241285997
San Bolkan, Alan K. Goodboy, Megan R. Dillow, Rebekah M. Chiasson, Megan A. Vendemia
Guided by relational turbulence theory (RTT), this intensive longitudinal study examined how within-person daily fluctuations in relationship uncertainty corresponded with individuals’ decisions to engage in daily enacted relationship talk. Using a person-specific approach, this study also examined how individuals’ attachment insecurity predicted within-person differences in month-long processes predicted by RTT. College-aged dating partners ( N = 202, between-person) reported their attachment proclivities in a pre-test survey and subsequently reported on their relationship uncertainty and enacted relationship talk once per day over a period of 30 consecutive days ( N = 5,240, within-person). Results indicated that on days when individuals experienced elevated relationship uncertainty, they engaged in less relationship talk than they typically did. Additionally, we found that individuals with more volatility (intraindividual variability) and inertia (day-to-day carryover) in relationship uncertainty throughout the month enacted less relationship talk on average. Finally, results indicated that attachment insecurity predicted person-specific month-long processes consistent with RTT.
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