Cognitive, Emotional and Excitative Responses to Satirical News

Droog, Ellen; Burgers, Christian

doi:10.1080/15205436.2022.2035398

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“…From an inter-genre perspective, the literature quite consistently shows that consuming satirical (vs. regular) news generates stronger positive emotional responses like mirth, enjoyment, happiness, or pleasure because of its entertaining nature . By contrast, the critical nature of satire can lead to appraisals that induce stronger negative emotional responses like anger, sadness or worries than regular news Droog et al, 2022;. From an intra-genre perspective, consuming humorous (vs. non-humorous) messages also evoke stronger positive emotions, that result from resolving the incongruity in the messages .…”

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“…Over the past years, we have seen a growing interest in the emotional processing of satirical news (Droog et al, 2022). This research has often been characterized by the use of a discrete emotion perspective, in which emotions are considered to be categorical emotional states that arise from a recipient's appraisal of a media stimulus .…”

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“…In this view, content-related aspects of a media stimulus can influence which or how strongly specific emotions are evoked . Therefore, it is important to use such a discrete emotion perspective 127 when investigating the intra-genre differences in satirical news content, because different types of satirical messages may induce different appraisals and can thus differently impact recipients' emotional responses (Droog et al, 2022).…”

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“…Satire studies have found opposing results regarding the impact of some of these mediating mechanisms Droog et al, 2022). Studies for example showed that satirical news consumption can elicit opposing underlying cognitive and emotional processes that one the hand enhance but on the other hand impede persuasion Droog et al, 2022). In addition, some of these mediating mechanisms, such as recipients' excitative responses to satirical news, received very little attention in the satire literature at all (Droog et al, 2022).…”

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Bridging the Features and Effects Divide in Satirical News Research

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Satirical news shows offer humorous news updates containing critiques of political, economic and/or social affairs. Scholars often portray satirical news shows as a powerful tool that can sway viewers’ (political) opinions in message-consistent directions. In explaining satire’s persuasive influence, satirical news has been studied from two different research areas: features and effects. However, these areas have largely remained two separate research traditions with little interaction. This has resulted in a features and effects divide in the study of satirical news. Despite various calls to break the boundaries between these research traditions, research connecting the features and effects of satirical news has still been scarce. Therefore, the main goal of this dissertation was to further bridge the features and effects divide in the study of satirical news. In this dissertation, four studies were conducted to achieve this goal. Chapter 2 gave more insight into the effects of satirical news by providing a theoretically grounded and empirical analysis of the mechanisms that underlie the persuasive influence of satirical news. The findings of a lab experiment indicated that satirical (vs. regular) news consumption impacted recipients’ attitudes indirectly through two opposing emotional responses, that on the one hand enhanced and on the other hand impeded persuasion. Chapters 3 and 4 gave more insight into the features of satirical news by providing a description of the structural elements and use of metaphorical humor in satirical news. The theoretical study in Chapter 3 introduced the Humoristic Metaphors in Satirical News Typology; HMSN typology) that showed how four different types of metaphors are used by satirists to fulfil satire’s three core communicative functions (humor, information, and evaluation) in isolation or in combination. This chapter provided more insight into the communicative value of metaphorical humor in satirical news by showing how the use of these different types of metaphors can give meaning to the political, economic, and/or social affairs discussed in satirical news, by trying to humorously explain and/or criticize them. The content analysis conducted in Chapter 4 provided an empirical verification and further specification of the HMSN typology. Overall, this chapter has provided more insight into the manifestation and role of the specific structural elements of metaphors through which metaphorical humor in satirical news is used to humorously explain and/or criticize current affairs. Chapter 5 bridged the insights of the features and effects studies in Chapters 2, 3 and 4 by investigating the underlying mechanisms of metaphorical humor effects in satirical news. The findings of six different experiments showed that consuming humorous metaphorical (vs. hyperbolical) satirical messages did not impact recipients’ attitudes indirectly. However, similar as in Chapter 2, humorous (vs. non-humorous) satirical messages did impact recipients’ attitudes indirectly through opposing cognitive and emotional routes, that on the one hand enhanced and on the other hand impeded persuasion. Based on the findings of this dissertation, a model called ‘the Indirect Features and Effects model of satirical news’ (IFE model) was proposed that bridges the features and effects divide in the study of satirical news. This model takes into account that satirical news features can vary at different levels, and accounts for the differential indirect persuasive impact of these different levels via various conscious and unconscious responses. The findings of this dissertation have advanced our knowledge of the role, characteristics, use, and persuasiveness of the features of satirical news. Moreover, the IFE model has led to a theoretically rich, robust, and unified approach towards the study of satirical news, and it is hoped that this approach inspires future research to further bridge the features and effects divide in the study of satirical news.

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