Affiliation:
1. Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
2. University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA
Abstract
A mathematical function for belief trajectories in response to a series of negative incongruent pieces of information was proposed based on the sequential information integration model (SIIM), and the function was tested in two studies. In Study 1 ( N = 167), political candidates’ party affiliation information was given for initial candidate evaluation, and then belief change over time (11 times) in response to a series of negative incongruent information about the candidates was observed. Consistent with the hypothesized mathematical function, in both studies, belief trajectories monotonically decreased. In Study 2 ( N = 177), negative incongruent information regarding candidates caused a greater over-time decline in candidate evaluation for those who did not receive initial issue-position information than for those who did receive initial issue-position information, and a greater over-time decline in candidate evaluation for those with weak party identification than for those with strong party identification was observed.
Subject
Linguistics and Language,Language and Linguistics,Communication
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