Hostile media perception affects news bias, but not news sharing intentions

Hostile media perception (HMP) theory suggests that partisans perceive neutral coverage of news by outlets opposite to their political leaning as biased against their side. We conducted two pre-registered online experiments to assess the effect of HMP on news bias and news sharing intentions regardi...

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Main Authors: Sergio Lo Iacono, Terence Daniel Dores Cruz
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The Royal Society 2022-04-01
Series:Royal Society Open Science
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Online Access:https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.211504