(Mis)perception of bias in print media: How depth of content evaluation affects the perception of hostile bias in an objective news report.

The hostile media effect describes the tendency for partisans to evaluate media content as relatively biased against their positions. The present study investigates what specific contextual elements of a news report contribute to this effect and how it may be mitigated by the depth of content evalua...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Yana Litovsky
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2021-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0251355