Does Counter-Attitudinal Information Cause Backlash? Results from Three Large Survey Experiments
Does Counter-Attitudinal Information Cause Backlash? Results from Three Large Survey Experiments
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DOI：
10.1017/s0007123418000327
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发表时间：
2020-10-01
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5
通讯作者：
Coppock, Alexander
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作者：
Guess, Andrew;Coppock, Alexander
一些理论观点认为，当个人接触到反态度的证据或论点时，他们先前存在的观点和信念会得到加强，导致有时被称为“反冲”的现象。本文正式定义了齿隙的概念，并详细说明了如何测量齿隙。然后，它提出了三个调查实验的结果-两个机械土耳其人和一个全国代表性的样本-没有发现反弹的证据，即使在理论上有利的条件。虽然随意阅读一下有关信息处理的文献就会发现，反弹现象非常普遍，但这些结果表明，反弹现象比通常想象的要罕见得多。
Several theoretical perspectives suggest that when individuals are exposed to counter-attitudinal evidence or arguments, their pre-existing opinions and beliefs are reinforced, resulting in a phenomenon sometimes known as 'backlash'. This article formalizes the concept of backlash and specifies how it can be measured. It then presents the results from three survey experiments - two on Mechanical Turk and one on a nationally representative sample - that find no evidence of backlash, even under theoretically favorable conditions. While a casual reading of the literature on information processing suggests that backlash is rampant, these results indicate that it is much rarer than commonly supposed.