The Effect of Issue Involvement on Biased Attributions

Amid the global discussion on ways to fight misinformation, journalists have been writing stories with graphical representations of data to expose misperceptions and provide readers with more accurate information. Employing an experimental design, this study explored to what extent news stories correcting misperceptions are effective in reducing them when the stories include data visualization and how influential readers’ prior beliefs, issue involvement and prior knowledge may be in that context. The study found that the presence of data visualization in news articles correcting misperceptions significantly enhanced the reduction of misperceptions among news readers with less than average prior knowledge about an issue. In addition, it was found that prior beliefs had a significant effect on news readers’ misperceptions regardless of the presence or absence of data visualization. In this way, this research offers some support for the notion that data visualization may be useful to decrease misperceptions under certain circumstances.

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Virtual Reality and Political Outgroup Contact: Can Avatar Customization and Common Ingroup Identity Reduce Social Distance?

Social Media + Society ◽

10.1177/2056305121993765 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 7 (1) ◽

pp. 205630512199376

Author(s):

Jorge Peña ◽

Grace Wolff ◽

Magdalena Wojcieszak

Keyword(s):

Virtual Reality ◽

Social Distance ◽

Intergroup Relations ◽

Identity Salience ◽

Physical Identity ◽

Heterogeneous Effects ◽

Issue Involvement ◽

Boomerang Effects ◽

Common Ingroup Identity ◽

Ingroup Identity

This study ( N = 217) explores the potential for virtual reality to decrease social distance toward outgroup members among women. Raising the salience of individuals’ real physical identity through avatar customization and common ingroup identity manipulations was theorized to influence social distance. Participants who customized an avatar to resemble their real selves showed increased social distance. However, avatar customization also increased user identifiability, which was linked to reduced social distance. Priming a common ingroup identity increased identity salience but did not influence social distance. In examining heterogeneous effects by prior levels of issue involvement, participants with high and moderate involvement with immigration showed increased social distance after customizing an avatar to resemble their real selves, thus implying boomerang effects. The study discusses how avatar customization, identifiability, and common ingroup primes in virtual encounters may influence outgroup attitudes and intergroup relations.

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The (in)congruency effects of message framing and image valence on consumers’ responses to green advertising: Focus on issue involvement as a moderator

Journal of Marketing Communications ◽

10.1080/13527266.2021.1900893 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1-20

Author(s):

Jinhee Lee ◽

Moonhee Cho

Keyword(s):

Message Framing ◽

Green Advertising ◽

Issue Involvement

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Corrigendum to: “An Internal Replication Examining the Role of Issue Involvement, Relevance, and Additional Requirements to Maintain an Established Freedom among Older Adults”

Human Communication Research ◽

10.1093/hcr/hqz021 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 46 (1) ◽

pp. 112-112

Author(s):

Salah H Al-Ghaithi ◽

Tobias Reynolds-Tylus ◽

Brian L Quick ◽

Andrea Martinez Gonzalez ◽

Kaitlyn E Nead

Keyword(s):

Older Adults ◽

Issue Involvement

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Mood State, Issue Involvement, and Argument Strength on Responses to Persuasive Appeals

Psychological Reports ◽

10.2466/pr0.101.3.739-753 ◽

2007 ◽

Vol 101 (3) ◽

pp. 739-753 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Robert C. Sinclair ◽

Tanya K. Lovsin ◽

Sean E. Moore

Keyword(s):

Mood State ◽

Psychology Students ◽

Introductory Psychology ◽

Cognitive Responses ◽

High Involvement ◽

Argument Strength ◽

Induction Condition ◽

Issue Involvement ◽

Thought Listing ◽

Sad Mood

This study investigated the effects of mood state, issue involvement, and argument strength on responses to persuasive appeals. Through an unrelated second study paradigm, 144 introductory psychology students were randomly assigned to High or Low Issue Involvement, Happy or Sad Mood Inductions, and Strong or Weak Argument conditions. Attitudes, measured on 9-point Likert-type scales, and cognitive responses, measured through a thought listing, were assessed. On attitudes, people in the Happy Induction condition were equally persuaded by Strong and Weak Arguments, whereas people in the Sad Induction condition were persuaded by Strong, but not Weak, Arguments. Involvement had no effect. On the thought-listing measures, people in the Happy Induction condition showed modest elaboration. A stronger pattern of effects, consistent with high elaboration, was noted on the thought listings of people in the Sad Induction condition and who were in the High Involvement group. Interestingly, people in the Sad Induction condition who were in the Low Involvement group showed mood-congruency on thoughts. The data suggest that the effects of mood state are not moderated by the effects of issue Involvement on this measure of attitudes but that there may be some moderation on measures of elaboration. Implications and directions for research are discussed.

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Assessing the Perceived Importance of Skin Cancer: How Question-Order Effects Are Influenced by Issue Involvement

Health Education & Behavior ◽

10.1177/1090198104272341 ◽

2005 ◽

Vol 32 (3) ◽

pp. 398-412 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

Rajiv N. Rimal ◽

Kevin Real

Keyword(s):

Skin Cancer ◽

Telephone Survey ◽

Formative Research ◽

Order Effects ◽

Contextual Variables ◽

The Public ◽

Issue Involvement ◽

Perceived Importance ◽

Question Order ◽

Health Related

Question-order effects refer to systematic differences in responses that can be attributed to the manner in which questions assessing attitudes and cognitions are asked. This article hypothesized that question-order effects in assessing the perceived importance of skin cancer would be moderated by the extent to which people are involved with the issue of skin cancer. A telephone survey ( N = 325) was conducted by administering two versions of the same questionnaire, one in which importance of skin cancer was assessed without other contextual variables and another in which contextual variables were asked before assessing the importance of skin cancer. As hypothesized, when people were highly involved with the issue, question-order effects did not occur. When involvement was low, importance of skin cancer was greater in the absence of contextual questions than in their presence. Findings have implications for how health-related issues are communicated to the public and how formative research is conducted.

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