Exposure to extremely partisan news from the other political side shows scarce boomerang effects

Andreu Casas*, Ericka Menchen-Trevino, M. Wojcieszak

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Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1491-1530
JournalPolitical Behavior
Volume45
Issue number4
Early online date2022
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Dec 2023

Funding

The author(s) gratefully acknowledge the support of the European Research Council, “Europeans exposed to dissimilar views in the media: investigating backfire effects,” Proposal EXPO- 756301 (ERC Starting Grant, Magdalena Wojcieszak -- PI) and of Facebook Research, which funded the project “How to Attenuate Selective Exposure and Affective Polarization.” The authors are also grateful to Pablo Barbera and Andy Guess for their feedback on previous drafts of the paper, and to Youjia Huang, Thomas Struett, and Randall Whiteman for their research assistance. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the European Research Council. The replication data and code are available at https://github.com/CasAndreu/extreme_sites_scarce_boomerang .

FundersFunder number
EXPO756301
European Research Council

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