Titel
Don’t Throw the Frame Out With the Bathwater: How Episodic News Frames Can Prevent Identity-Motivated Reasoning
Autor*in
Loes Aaldering
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Abstract
Framing research has predominantly revealed detrimental effects of episodic news frames, including individualist blame attributions and political cynicism. However, such frames may also discourage group biases and impede motivated reasoning regarding identity politics. In two experiments (N = 815; N = 1,019), we test the effect of episodic frames on group-consonant attitudes through identity-motivated reasoning. The two studies produce mixed results. Episodic frames might decrease gender-motivated reasoning for women with weaker gender identities when news threatens their identity, but not for men or for women with stronger gender identities. The implications for journalism and democracy are discussed.
Stichwort
framingmotivated reasoningissue polarizationexperimentation
Objekt-Typ
Sprache
Englisch [eng]
Persistent identifier
Erschienen in
Titel
Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly
ISSN
1077-6990
Erscheinungsdatum
2022
Publication
SAGE Publications
Erscheinungsdatum
2022
Zugänglichkeit
Rechte
Rechteangabe
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