Studying the Effects of Motivated Reasoning on Appraisals of Message Strength

This study was designed to investigate decision-making as it relates to message appraisal, and determine what effect, if any, identification with the message source has on those appraisals. For the purpose of study, message appraisal was operationalized as message strength ratings. Furthermore, the...

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Main Author: Powell, Aric Christopher
Format: Others
Published: PDXScholar 2018
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Online Access:https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/4707
https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=5778&context=open_access_etds