Cognitive tuning effects of anticipating communication on thought about an interpersonal conflict

Cloven, Denise H.; Roloff, Michael E.

doi:10.1080/08934219509367601

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“…He calls this process "anticipatory elaboration" and finds support for it in a study based on survey data collected during the 1996 presidential campaigns (2004:180). Conceptually, this idea of anticipatory elaboration overlaps significantly with Cloven and Roloff's (1995) notion of cognitive tuning effects, in which individuals try to make sense of information-especially contradictory or incomplete information that they receive from mass media-in order to be able to better describe the information to others or perhaps to defend it during future discussions. Finally, Scheufele et al (2004) found hard news use to be an important mediating factor in explaining relationships between various kinds of recurrent political conversations and factual political knowledge.…”

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Stimulating Upstream Engagement: An Experimental Study of Nanotechnology Information Seeking

Xenos

Becker

Anderson

et al. 2011

Social Science Quarterly

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Objectives. The current study examines upstream engagement initiatives using the issue of nanotechnology as a case study. Methods. A series of logistic and OLS regression analyses explore data from a laboratory experiment on information-seeking behavior, knowledge, and willingness to engage with the issue of nanotechnology in the future. Results. Our results fail to offer evidence of positive relationships between anticipated discussion and learning and the willingness to engage with the issue of nanotechnology in the future. In addition, our results show that anticipated discussion with opposing others actually encourages individuals to seek out an editorial or opinion piece first as opposed to a news item. Conclusion. Our findings point toward important variations in the kinds of information-seeking behaviors likely to emerge from different conditions under which individuals may be motivated to learn more about emerging science issues, and provide practical insights into which kinds of information-seeking behaviors are most conducive to knowledge gain and issue engagement. Movement toward a model of public engagement with science is difficult to resist. Such an approach promises a strongly democratic paradigm that seeks to actively draw publics into policy discussions about science through what Lezaun and Soneryd (2007) aptly refer to as "technologies of elicitation"-discussion groups, consensus conferences, citizen juries, and a variety of similar fora. Reflecting contemporary interest in deliberative democracy and inclusive * Direct correspondence to Michael A. Xenos, Department of Communication Arts, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 6152 Vilas Hall, 821 University Ave., Madison, WI 53706 xenos@wisc.edu . Michael A. Xenos will provide all data and coding information to anyone wishing to replicate this study.

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Section: Anticipated Discussion As a Catalyst For Engagementmentioning

confidence: 99%

Stimulating Upstream Engagement: An Experimental Study of Nanotechnology Information Seeking

Xenos

Becker

Anderson

et al. 2011

Social Science Quarterly

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“…Imagining interactions may be a way of rehearsing conflicts and of practicing discussion of problems. In support of this view, Cloven and Roloff (1995) found that individuals who anticipated communication about conflict with a roommate reported more variety in content of thoughts and number of descriptive thoughts than did those in a control group who anticipated no interaction. Individuals in cross‐sex friendships reported less talking about the relationship when they were more uncertain about it or when one partner desired romance and the other did not, compared to when both partners desired romance (Guerrero & Chavez, 2005).…”

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Effects of participation in a longitudinal study of dating

Surra

Curran

Williams

2009

Personal Relationships

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Participation in interviews has the potential to change beliefs about dating relationships. Changes in beliefs should vary as a function of how much participants think and talk about their relationships. Participants (N= 464) were randomly selected for an interview study from households in a large Southwestern U.S. city. Participation should have positive effects on beliefs when thinking or talking is high and negative effects when thinking or talking is low. As predicted, talking moderates the association between participation and conflict, and thinking moderates the effects of participation on satisfaction and friendship‐based love. Results differed for men and women. Under conditions of low talk and high thinking, participation has negative effects. Implications of the effects of participation are discussed.

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“…When individuals are preparing to transmit information, cognitive structures that focus on assimilating knowledge and organizing it are activated, likely because they perceive a need to know more about the information they are sharing (Mazis, 1973; Zajonc, 1960). The cognitive structures that are activated by information sharers is complex, rigid, and highly organized (Cloven & Roloff, 1995). As a result, sharers of information tend to have a narrow focus on the information they are sharing, and are more resistant to the receipt of new information (Mazis, 1973).…”

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“…When one is in receiving mode, they are more likely to anticipate a possible change in their cognitions (Zajonc, 1960). As a result, they more readily embrace new, and even contradictory, information to more easily and efficiently process the incoming message (Cloven & Roloff, 1995). Thus, social media users who actively consume news and political information during their visits to SNSs might be especially open to receiving new information and to learning during their time online.…”

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Is Facebook Making Us Dumber? Exploring Social Media Use as a Predictor of Political Knowledge

Cacciatore

Yeo

Scheufele

et al. 2018

Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly

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With social networking site (SNS) use now ubiquitous in American culture, researchers have started paying attention to its effects in a variety of domains. This study explores the relationships between measures of Facebook use and political knowledge levels using a pair of representative samples of U.S. adults. We find that although the mere use of Facebook was unrelated to political knowledge scores, how Facebook users report engaging with the SNS was strongly associated with knowledge levels. Importantly, the increased use of Facebook for news consumption and news sharing was negatively related to political knowledge levels. Possible explanations and implications are discussed.

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Cognitive tuning effects of anticipating communication on thought about an interpersonal conflict

Cited by 11 publications

References 28 publications

Stimulating Upstream Engagement: An Experimental Study of Nanotechnology Information Seeking

Stimulating Upstream Engagement: An Experimental Study of Nanotechnology Information Seeking

Effects of participation in a longitudinal study of dating

Is Facebook Making Us Dumber? Exploring Social Media Use as a Predictor of Political Knowledge

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