• DOI:10.1111/J.1467-9221.2010.00772.X
Corpus ID: 7864714

The Affective Tipping Point: Do Motivated Reasoners Ever “Get It”?

@article{Redlawsk2010TheAT,
  title={The Affective Tipping Point: Do Motivated Reasoners Ever “Get It”?},
  author={David P. Redlawsk and A. Civettini and Karen M. Emmerson},
  journal={Political Psychology},
  year={2010},
  volume={31},
  pages={563-593}
}

David P. Redlawsk, A. Civettini, Karen M. Emmerson

Published 2010

Psychology

Political Psychology

In order to update candidate evaluations voters must acquire information and determine whether that new information supports or opposes their candidate expectations. Normatively, new negative information about a preferred candidate should result in a downward adjustment of an existing evaluation. However, recent studies show exactly the opposite; voters become more supportive of a preferred candidate in the face of negatively valenced information. Motivated reasoning is advanced as the… CONTINUE READING

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