Techniques for Measuring Selective Exposure: A Critical Review

Clay, Russ; Barber, Jessica; Shook, Natalie J.

doi:10.1080/19312458.2013.813925

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“…There are a variety of techniques for measuring selective exposure including retrospective reports, behavioral intentions, observation of behavior and aggregate measures of behavior over time (see Clay et al, 2013 for a critical review). We were interested to examine whether a respondent’s positive/negative attitudes influenced the information they noticed, remembered and recalled about the culture of the organization.…”

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Exploring Selective Exposure and Confirmation Bias as Processes Underlying Employee Work Happiness: An Intervention Study

Williams

Waters

2016

Front. Psychol.

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Employee psychological capital (PsyCap), perceptions of organizational virtue (OV), and work happiness have been shown to be associated within and over time. This study examines selective exposure and confirmation bias as potential processes underlying PsyCap, OV, and work happiness associations. As part of a quasi-experimental study design, school staff (N = 69) completed surveys at three time points. After the first assessment, some staff (n = 51) completed a positive psychology training intervention. Results of descriptive statistics, correlation, and regression analyses on the intervention group provide some support for selective exposure and confirmation bias as explanatory mechanisms. In focusing on the processes through which employee attitudes may influence work happiness this study advances theoretical understanding, specifically of selective exposure and confirmation bias in a field study context.

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Exploring Selective Exposure and Confirmation Bias as Processes Underlying Employee Work Happiness: An Intervention Study

Williams

Waters

2016

Front. Psychol.

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“…When ability to control the self is diminished, will people avoid challenging media choices and turn to the creature comforts of easy, nonchallenging choices? Initial findings suggest that this may be the case (Eden, Hartmann, & Reinecke, 2015), however, these findings' generalizability is limited by selective exposure methodological concerns (Clay, Barber, & Shook, 2013) and concerns about ego depletion laboratory paradigms (Hagger & Chatzisarantis, 2016).…”

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“…In their review of selective exposure measures, Clay et al (2013) suggested that behavioral intentions, in addition to being generally predictive of actual behavior, are less vulnerable to social desirability and recall error than retrospective reports of media use. However, intentions are limited (Clay et al, 2013;KnoblochWesterwick, 2015) in that they may not fully account for availability of media content, strength intention, or time spent with media. To that end, the design used both open-ended and closed-ended measures of behavioral intentions, alleviating issues regarding availability of titles or unrealistic choices.…”

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“…This provided a robust test of the hypotheses, and made use of both sequential and simultaneous choice scenarios, which can influence decision-making (Bitterly et al, 2015). It also adds robustness by testing selective exposure through measures of both discrete choices and preference strength (Clay et al, 2013). In the openended measure (step 1), participants named a film they would watch in the scenario, and also reported their perceptions of the film.…”

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Entertainment as a Creature Comfort: Self-Control and Selection of Challenging Media

2017

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“…Assessing selective exposure via unobtrusive, direct observations in experimental settings would bolster our understanding of the causal directions of influence. Findings from such studies would not be without their own limitations, however, in terms of generalizability and external validity (see Clay, Barber, & Shook, 2013 for a review). The results of the present study therefore can be viewed as augmenting existing experimental evidence by replicating a similar pattern in a more realistic setting using representative samples.…”

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Why Do People (Sometimes) Become Selective About News? The Role of Emotions and Partisan Differences in Selective Approach and Avoidance

Song

2016

Mass Communication and Society

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Mass Communication and SocietyISSN: 1520-5436 (Print) 1532-7825 (Online) Journal homepage: http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/hmcs20 Why do people (sometimes) become selective about news? The role of emotions and partisan differences in selective approach and avoidance Hyunjin Song To cite this article: Hyunjin Song (2016): Why do people (sometimes) become selective about news? The role of emotions and partisan differences in selective approach and avoidance, Mass Communication and Society, Abstract Recent advances in partisan selective exposure research have provided compellingA c c e p t e d M a n u s c r i p t evidence for the distinction between selective approach and selective avoidance. Yet, the questions of whether, how, and to what extent discrete emotions systematically shape either of these patterns has not been sufficiently addressed. This study explores the differential roles of fear, anger, and enthusiasm in selective approach to and selective avoidance of partisan news programs, focusing on partisan differences in regard to a person's general approach versus avoidance tendencies to external stimuli as a possible moderating mechanism. A secondary analysis of the 2012 American National Election Studies (ANES) data suggested that fear and anger both significantly increased pro-attitudinal news exposure, whereas only anger decreased counter-attitudinal news exposure. In addition, Republicans exhibit these patterns to a greater extent than Democrats. Furthermore, enthusiasm significantly predicted exposure to proattitudinal news for both Republicans and Democrats, whereas Democrats were significantly more likely than Republicans to increase their counter-attitudinal news exposure as a function of enthusiasm. Theoretical and methodological implications are discussed.

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Techniques for Measuring Selective Exposure: A Critical Review

Cited by 38 publications

References 46 publications

Exploring Selective Exposure and Confirmation Bias as Processes Underlying Employee Work Happiness: An Intervention Study

Exploring Selective Exposure and Confirmation Bias as Processes Underlying Employee Work Happiness: An Intervention Study

Entertainment as a Creature Comfort: Self-Control and Selection of Challenging Media

Why Do People (Sometimes) Become Selective About News? The Role of Emotions and Partisan Differences in Selective Approach and Avoidance

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