Confirmation bias in acquisition of information based on political affiliation
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Data de Publicação: | 2020 |
Tipo de documento: | Dissertação |
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Título da fonte: | Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos) |
Texto Completo: | http://hdl.handle.net/10362/111525 |
Resumo: | This paper studies the impact of confirmation bias on the choice between biased sources of political information in a pre-election period. A sample of 204 Portuguese respondents was used, through a survey regarding their political identity and relating it to each one’s choice of information sources, as a voter and as a single decision-maker. Significant differences in behaviour were found according to one’s political identity. Evidence was found for some significant confirmation-seeking behaviour among right-wing participants, but some hypotheses concerning expressive voting and the effects of various factors on confirmation bias weren’t confirmed. |
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Confirmation bias in acquisition of information based on political affiliationElectionPartisan motivated reasoningSelective exposureVoter behaviourDomínio/Área Científica::Ciências Sociais::Economia e GestãoThis paper studies the impact of confirmation bias on the choice between biased sources of political information in a pre-election period. A sample of 204 Portuguese respondents was used, through a survey regarding their political identity and relating it to each one’s choice of information sources, as a voter and as a single decision-maker. Significant differences in behaviour were found according to one’s political identity. Evidence was found for some significant confirmation-seeking behaviour among right-wing participants, but some hypotheses concerning expressive voting and the effects of various factors on confirmation bias weren’t confirmed.Coutts, AlexanderRUNSilva, Marta Vasconcelos Barreto Resina da2021-02-09T10:01:15Z2020-05-232020-01-032020-05-23T00:00:00Zinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesisapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10362/111525TID:202609200enginfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessreponame:Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)instname:Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãoinstacron:RCAAP2024-03-11T04:55:18Zoai:run.unl.pt:10362/111525Portal AgregadorONGhttps://www.rcaap.pt/oai/openaireopendoar:71602024-03-20T03:41:55.412050Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos) - Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãofalse |
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Confirmation bias in acquisition of information based on political affiliation |
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Confirmation bias in acquisition of information based on political affiliation |
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Confirmation bias in acquisition of information based on political affiliation Silva, Marta Vasconcelos Barreto Resina da Election Partisan motivated reasoning Selective exposure Voter behaviour Domínio/Área Científica::Ciências Sociais::Economia e Gestão |
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Confirmation bias in acquisition of information based on political affiliation |
title_full |
Confirmation bias in acquisition of information based on political affiliation |
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Confirmation bias in acquisition of information based on political affiliation |
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Confirmation bias in acquisition of information based on political affiliation |
title_sort |
Confirmation bias in acquisition of information based on political affiliation |
author |
Silva, Marta Vasconcelos Barreto Resina da |
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Silva, Marta Vasconcelos Barreto Resina da |
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author |
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Coutts, Alexander RUN |
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Silva, Marta Vasconcelos Barreto Resina da |
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Election Partisan motivated reasoning Selective exposure Voter behaviour Domínio/Área Científica::Ciências Sociais::Economia e Gestão |
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Election Partisan motivated reasoning Selective exposure Voter behaviour Domínio/Área Científica::Ciências Sociais::Economia e Gestão |
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This paper studies the impact of confirmation bias on the choice between biased sources of political information in a pre-election period. A sample of 204 Portuguese respondents was used, through a survey regarding their political identity and relating it to each one’s choice of information sources, as a voter and as a single decision-maker. Significant differences in behaviour were found according to one’s political identity. Evidence was found for some significant confirmation-seeking behaviour among right-wing participants, but some hypotheses concerning expressive voting and the effects of various factors on confirmation bias weren’t confirmed. |
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2020 |
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2020-05-23 2020-01-03 2020-05-23T00:00:00Z 2021-02-09T10:01:15Z |
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