Anger, Sadness, and Fear Responses to Crime and Accident News Stories.
JOURNAL OF MEDIA PSYCHOLOGY-THEORIES METHODS AND APPLICATIONS(2013)
摘要
Prior research has shown that discrete emotions, notably anger and fear, can explain effects of news articles on health and alcohol-control policy support. This study advances prior work by coding expressed emotional responses to messages (as opposed to directly manipulated emotions or forced responses), incorporating and controlling for central thoughts, including sadness (a particularly relevant response to tragic stories), and examining the mediating role of concern, between emotion and policy support. An experiment with a US national online adult panel had participants read one of 60 violent crime or accident news stories, each manipulated to mention or withhold alcohol's causal contribution. Multigroup structural equation models suggested that stories not mentioning alcohol had a direct effect on policy support via fear and central thoughts, unmediated by concern. When alcohol was mentioned, sadness and anger affected alcohol-control support through concern. These fmdings help confirm that emotional responses are key in determining news story effects on public support of health policies.
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alcohol-control,news story,emotion,public policy support,risk concern
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