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	DOI:10.1098/rsos.172239

Corpus ID: 52291216Perceptions of newsworthiness are contaminated by a political usefulness bias
@article{Pashler2018PerceptionsON,
  title={Perceptions of newsworthiness are contaminated by a political usefulness bias},
  author={H. Pashler and Gail L. Heriot},
  journal={Royal Society Open Science},
  year={2018},
  volume={5}
}
	H. Pashler, Gail L. Heriot
	Published 2018
	Psychology, Medicine
	Royal Society Open Science

Are people's perceptions of the newsworthiness of events biased by a tendency to rate as more important any news story that seems likely to lead others to share their own political attitudes? To assess this, we created six pairs of hypothetical news stories, each describing an event that seemed likely to encourage people to adopt attitudes on the opposite side of a particular controversial issue (e.g. affirmative action and gay marriage). In total, 569 subjects were asked to evaluate the… Expand

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