Exploring the Hardwired for News Hypothesis: How Threat Proximity Affects the Cognitive and Emotional Processing of Health-Related Print News

Wise, Kevin; Eckler, Petya; Kononova, Anastasia; Littau, Jeremy

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“…Lang et al, 2007;A. Lang & Yegiyan, 2011;Lee & Lang, 2009;Wang, Lang, & Busemeyer, 2011;Wise, Eckler, Kononova, & Littau, 2009;Yegiyan & Lang, 2010).…”

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The Impact of Emotional Words on Listeners’ Emotional and Cognitive Responses in the Context of Advertisements

Lee

Potter

2018

Communication Research

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The study examined how individual words occurring in mediated messages affect listeners’ emotional and cognitive responses. Scripts from actual radio advertisements were altered by replacing original words with target words that varied in valence—either positive, negative, or neutral. The scripts were then reproduced by nonprofessional speakers. Real-time processing of the target words was examined through the use of psychophysiological measures of dynamic emotional and cognitive responses collected from subjects ( n = 55) and time-locked to the stimuli. Recognition memory provided a measure of encoding efficiency. As predicted, listeners had greater frown muscle responses following the onset of negatively valenced words compared with positively valenced words. Results also showed that positively valenced words elicited orienting responses in listeners but negatively valenced words did not. Recognition data show that positively valenced words were encoded better than neutrally valenced words, followed by negatively valenced words, which was consistent with the finding for the impact of emotional words on orienting responses.

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“…Lang et al, 2007;A. Lang & Yegiyan, 2011;Lee & Lang, 2009;Wang, Lang, & Busemeyer, 2011;Wise, Eckler, Kononova, & Littau, 2009;Yegiyan & Lang, 2010).…”

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The Impact of Emotional Words on Listeners’ Emotional and Cognitive Responses in the Context of Advertisements

Lee

Potter

2018

Communication Research

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“…Localization of news releases may also be more necessary for community newspapers or other small, local media outlets (Donnelly, 2005;. In addition to being more relevant to the editors who select stories, research also shows that localized health news stories are more engaging to readers (Wise et al, 2009). Localizing health news releases to include topics, data, or referrals to resources particularly relevant to rural residents may result in increased quantity and quality of health promotion information available to those communities.…”

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“…To some degree, a news value is defined as something relevant to newsworthiness because it is thought to increase audience attention. Several authors have found that people remember more about local news stories than stories that take place far away (Donnelly, 2005;Wise, Eckler, Kononova, & Littau, 2009). However, few authors have distinguished between local versus localized health news.…”

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Localized Health News Releases and Community Newspapers

Young

Willis

Stemmle

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Health Promotion Practice

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Newspaper health stories often originate with news releases from health organizations. Tailoring news releases to a particular mass media outlet increases the possibility that the release will result in a published story. This study describes a 2-year effort to promote coverage of health through dissemination of localized health news releases to newspapers. Each newspaper received stories tailored to that community. Localized elements of stories included local headlines and local data. Nearly half of newspapers in our study (48.2%) published at least one of our health news stories, and 541 health news stories were published as a result of the project. We also examined which types of newspapers were most likely to publish health news stories. Newspapers in rural versus suburban and urban areas were more likely to publish health news stories, as were midsized newspapers. In addition, rural newspapers were more likely than urban newspapers to publish stories about aging, specifically arthritis and heart disease. Our findings indicate that tailoring health news releases with local information and targeting releases to align with newspaper audience demographics could increase the quantity and quality of health-promoting information available to rural residents, who experience disparities in health care access and health outcomes.

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“…Local TV news is more popular for health information than both cable news and nightly network news (Pew Research Center, 2010), and recent research suggests that viewers process health information from local TV news with greater attention (Wise, Eckler, Kononova, & Littau, 2009). Contrary to the prominence and popularity of local TV news on people's health information-seeking behaviors, Gantz (2007, 2010) note that studies of health content in local TV news remain scant, which prompted us to examine how this media channel covers health-related issues.…”

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What Are Americans Seeing? Examining the Message Frames of Local Television Health News Stories

Lee

Park

et al. 2013

Health Communication

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While local television news is the number-one source among Americans for health information, little attention has been given to what viewers are actually watching in these newscasts. Toward this end, a content analysis of local television health news stories (n = 416) was conducted, to examine how local health news stories utilize gain and loss message frames, and whether there are differences in story topics, location, length, presence of self-efficacy methods, and conflict, according to the message frames. Results showed that health news stories that dealt with advancements in treatment or philanthropic events were mainly reported using gain frames, while loss frame health news stories most frequently reported on statistics and trends. The majority of the health news stories were less than 30 seconds among all frames, and conflict appeared more often for the loss frames than gain frames. Furthermore, while efficacy information was mostly absent across all types of frames, gain frames were more likely than loss frames to present efficacy methods. Finally, efficacy information appeared most frequently in health-related statistical reports and prevention messages, while discrimination and health-policy stories had the least efficacy information in them.

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Exploring the Hardwired for News Hypothesis: How Threat Proximity Affects the Cognitive and Emotional Processing of Health-Related Print News

Cited by 25 publications

References 27 publications

The Impact of Emotional Words on Listeners’ Emotional and Cognitive Responses in the Context of Advertisements

The Impact of Emotional Words on Listeners’ Emotional and Cognitive Responses in the Context of Advertisements

Localized Health News Releases and Community Newspapers

What Are Americans Seeing? Examining the Message Frames of Local Television Health News Stories

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